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Summary:  

Our client is actively committed to promoting and maintaining the importance of diversity to its work. We encourage everyone across the spectrums of race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, age, gender identity and expression, educational background, sexual orientation, and religion to apply. This is a bargaining unit position.

Our client is a nonprofit research and grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth. Our client engages with academics and policymakers to better understand economic inequality in the United States and its impact on economic growth. Important elements of our client's mission include grantmaking to academic economists and other social scientists to support new research on inequality, mobility, growth, and related issues, as well as work to apply the best available academic evidence to the policy world. Building a stronger bridge between academics and the policy community and elevating researchers and their work with the news media are both key to our work, with the goal of making new research relevant, accessible, and informative to the policymaking process. 

Our client has an immediate opening for an economist/social scientist who is skilled at applying academic evidence to policy debates. Any issue expertise will be considered, but we are particularly interested in candidates who have worked on issues affecting family economic security. This is a hybrid work position. The successful candidate will be able to perform with distinction the following responsibilities and meet the following qualifications:

Responsibilities  include but are not limited to: 

· Supervise and provide guidance to majority policy staff.
· Manage the policy team to align the team's work with the broader organizational aims.
· Work with VP to drive an agenda for our client's policy and advocacy programming, including policy materials, reports, and events.
· Ensure work is on track to meet stated organizational and program objectives, key results, and funding deliverables.
· Advancing evidence-backed policy and policy proposals by doing policy-relevant research and applying the best available academic research to policy debates
· Engaging with people in government as well as other stakeholders to explain the evidence behind certain policy ideas or concepts
· Connecting with people at other think tanks and advocacy organizations to collaborate on policy work
· Supporting scholars in the network and beyond to make work relevant for policymakers
· Representing our client to the media, policymakers, and other outside stakeholders
· Attending academic conferences and maintaining relationships with the academic community and other professional economists and policymakers
· Supporting our client's competitive grant program and commissioned research series by providing intellectual guidance, solicitations, and review as necessary
· Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Education

· Advanced degree in economics or related social science field or commensurate applied or government experience. Ph.D. preferred.

Qualifications

·10+ years of experience engaged in research or research-oriented policy work.
· Expertise in family economic security issues, labor, and/or mobility is particularly helpful. 
· Proven ability to apply academic social science research to policy questions.
· Proven ability to communicate evidence-based policy guidance to key stakeholders, including policymakers, advocates, and the media in a non-technical way.
· Strong understanding of the academic and policymaking communities.
· Strong written and verbal communication skills .
· Commitment to our client's mission and goals .

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