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Director / Senior Director, Federal Government Affairs

Aalo· Government Affairs
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Hybrid (Washington, DC)$0Full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Washington, DC-based leadership role to manage day-to-day engagement with executive and legislative branches, advancing federal policy, appropriations, regulatory, and partnership opportunities to support Aalo Atomics’ deployment and commercialization of advanced nuclear technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Aalo’s day-to-day engagement with key executive branch stakeholders, including DOE, DOD, national laboratories, and other relevant federal agencies.
  • Identify and advance federal programs, partnerships, policy initiatives, and funding opportunities aligned with Aalo’s reactor deployment, manufacturing, defense, energy security, and commercialization objectives.
  • Support company engagement on federal matters involving advanced nuclear deployment, resilient power, strategic infrastructure, national security, and government applications.
  • Track, interpret, and communicate federal agency priorities, rulemakings, program opportunities, budget developments, and policy changes relevant to Aalo.
  • Prepare company leadership for meetings with senior federal officials, agency staff, national laboratory leaders, and public-sector partners.
  • Lead Aalo’s day-to-day engagement with Members of Congress, congressional staff, authorizing committees, appropriations committees, and relevant caucuses.
  • Advance legislative, policy, appropriations, oversight, and coalition strategies that support Aalo’s growth and deployment priorities.
  • Monitor congressional developments related to advanced nuclear energy, energy security, defense energy resilience, permitting, licensing, appropriations, supply chain, and national security.
  • Draft and support policy materials, legislative proposals, briefing papers, testimony, hearing preparation, congressional correspondence, and advocacy materials.
  • Build bipartisan relationships that strengthen Aalo’s position as a trusted advanced nuclear company and public-sector partner.
  • Support Aalo’s non-dilutive funding strategy by identifying and pursuing federal funding opportunities across civilian, defense, energy, and national security channels.
  • Work with internal teams to align federal funding opportunities with technical, commercial, deployment, licensing, and operational priorities.
  • Help shape appropriations and authorization strategies that support advanced nuclear deployment and Aalo-specific objectives.
  • Coordinate with external lobbyists, consultants, trade associations, and coalition partners to advance Aalo’s federal priorities.
  • Partner closely with legal, regulatory, commercial, communications, engineering, deployment, and executive teams to ensure federal government strategy supports company execution.
  • Provide timely analysis to the SVP of Government Affairs and executive leadership on federal policy developments, stakeholder risks, political dynamics, and public-sector growth opportunities.
  • Translate complex technical, regulatory, and policy issues into clear, persuasive materials for policymakers and external stakeholders.
  • Represent Aalo in federal policy forums, trade association meetings, coalition discussions, conferences, and strategic external engagements.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in federal government affairs, public policy, congressional affairs, executive branch engagement, appropriations, energy policy, defense policy, nuclear policy, or a related field.
  • Strong working knowledge of Congress, congressional committees, federal agencies, the budget and appropriations process, and executive branch decision-making.
  • Demonstrated relationships with congressional offices, committees, DOE, DOD, national laboratories, or other relevant federal stakeholders.
  • Experience working on energy, nuclear, defense, national security, infrastructure, manufacturing, technology, or other complex regulated sectors.
  • Ability to operate effectively in Washington, DC with senior policymakers, agency officials, congressional staff, industry partners, and internal executives.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare briefing materials, policy memos, legislative language, talking points, and executive-level updates.
  • Strong political judgment, discretion, and ability to handle sensitive government, defense, or national security-related matters.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with technical, commercial, legal, regulatory, communications, and executive teams.
  • Active or previously held security clearance is preferred; ability to obtain and maintain required clearances may be required depending on the nature of the work.

Skills

Required:Federal policy and government affairsRelationship-building with congressional offices and federal agenciesStrategic advocacy and coalition managementCommunication and briefing material development

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits.
  • 401(k) matching and flexible PTO.
  • The opportunity to help shape the federal policy and public-sector partnership strategy for the next generation of clean energy.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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