Director of Economic Policy

🕒 April 26

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The Century Foundation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1919

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

Non-profit • Education • Healthcare

The Century Foundation is a public policy think tank that focuses on promoting social justice and equity. It conducts research and advocacy on various issues, including education, healthcare, economic opportunity, and poverty alleviation. Through its publications and events, The Century Foundation aims to inform policy debates and foster collaboration among stakeholders to improve health equity, access to quality education, and overall economic welfare.

📋 Description

• Direct TCF’s economic policy team, including setting the vision for research and policy development designed to influence public policy and drive progressive change • Author reports and commentary on economic policy issues, and oversee policy research projects by internal and external contributors on issues in economic policy and TCF policy areas • Devise strategies and tactics to advance new ideas and influence key policy debates in the short and long term • Establish and maintain strong networks among economic policy experts, advocates, policymakers, and colleagues at other think thanks to share information and collaborate • Lift TCF’s profile and influence as a leader on economic policy, including engaging with the media and on social media, speaking at and hosting conferences and convenings, briefing policymakers on TCF’s policy agenda, and more • With support from TCF’s development team, help lead the economic policy team’s fundraising and development strategy, cultivating new funding sources • Collaborate with other TCF policy teams on projects that overlap with worker rights and power • May be required to manage a team of direct reports.

🎯 Requirements

• At least ten years of experience working in economic policy • A proven track record of developing policies, strategies, and analysis that advance a progressive economic agenda • A commitment to bold, progressive policy change that advances racial and economic justice for working people across our economy • Experience driving analysis aimed at understanding and shifting power dynamics to combat outsized corporate influence • Strong quantitative skills, including experience working with R, Stata, Microsoft Excel, and some expertise on data visualization • An eagerness to think creatively to develop and execute strategies to help policy change take hold, including through legislation, executive orders, guidance, regulation, enforcement, and more • Existing working relationships with peer organizations, advocates, and policymakers • Political acuity and the ability to craft research and policy recommendations to advance or capitalize on new or ongoing policy debates • Excellent writing and communication skills, including for expert and popular audiences alike • A willingness to build and maintain relationships with funding partners to achieve even greater policy impact.

🏖️ Benefits

• health, dental. vision, and life insurance • employer-funded health reimbursement account (HRA) • generous vacation • sick and personal days • employer matching 403(b) plan • up to fourteen weeks parental leave