The American Economic Liberties Project is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to developing policy ideas and generating political will for decentralizing concentrated economic power by educating, supporting, and demanding accountability from state and federal public officials who are responsible for protecting workers, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and communities from monopolistic corporations. Economic Liberties combines distinctive policy and regulatory expertise with capacities in research, strategic communications, advocacy, and coalition-building to achieve its goals.
Economic Liberties’ Rethink Trade program works to build powerful synergies between the trade justice and anti-monopoly movements, which to date have been unhelpfully siloed. The program conducts research and analyses and develops framing documents, communications tools, and reports and legal analyses to inform its advocacy work. Rethink Trade also serves as a convener by designing
inside-outside collaboration strategies that connect U.S. and international policymakers, civil society leaders, and other stakeholders.
We are seeking a Policy Analyst to join our team who is passionate about our mission and will bring experience evaluating the outcomes of trade policies and agreements, analyzing trade proposals and elevating how trade justice and antitrust and competition policy intersect. As a Policy Analyst, you will help to advance our goals by producing timely, rigorously researched, accessible products in collaboration with Rethink Trade’s Director and Research Director and Economic Liberties’ policy and communications teams. You will develop fluency in the range of policy solutions available to address concentrated corporate power in trade policy.
In this role you will:
- Conduct policy research and write on trade issues on tight timelines with the Research Director.
- Generate research ideas, gather data, and collaborate on other editorial projects.
- Support team members in gathering data and preparing materials to brief policymakers and coalition partners.
- Build and maintain relationships with partners to advance the work.
- Stay abreast of current trade news.
- Pitch and draft relevant social media content, news releases, and op-eds to develop Rethink’s public-facing and rapid-response footprint.
- Draft weekly and monthly trade blurbs for Economic Liberties’ Substack and Hill publications.
- Copy edit public and internal documents per Rethink’s style guidelines, including grant applications and reports, memos, slideshows, factsheets, and reports.
- Assist in event planning, including drafting runs of show.
- Testify at listening sessions and speak at allied organizations’ events about research and Rethink positions.
- Report to Research Director and Director.
About you:
- Early career professional with 2-3 years of experience in a policy-oriented role.
- Excellent research, analysis, and written communication skills.
- Quantitative research skills and fluency with data analytic tools.
- Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners.
- Methodical in approaching projects, good time management skills, and ability to track and
execute multiple work streams simultaneously with light supervision. - Sense of curiosity and orientation for learning.
- Passion for fighting corporate power.
- This role will be based in Washington D.C.
This is a full-time, exempt position. The salary for this position is between $58,000 and $63,000 plus excellent benefits. Compensation is commensurate with experience. We strongly encourage LGBTQ, women and people of color to apply.
How to apply:
Please submit your cover letter and resume in a single PDF through the airtable form here.
As an equal opportunity employer, the American Economic Liberties Project values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to recruiting and promoting regardless of ability, age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
About AELP’s Rethink Trade Program:
The Rethink Trade program provides strategic and thought leadership on cutting edge trade and
globalization issues, including:
- Big Tech efforts to hijack “trade” agreements and policies to lock in monopoly power and evade
digital governance; - changes needed to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement now under mandatory review;
- how to reverse the supply chain vulnerabilities resulting from decades of hyperglobalization and merge mania and the extreme corporate power expansion posed by the Investor-State Dispute Settlement regime; and
- alternative balanced trade policies to replace both neoliberalism and Trump’s tariff chaos that can harvest the benefits of trade without undermining our democracy, livelihoods and labor rights, fair markets and consumer and environmental safeguards.
Rethink Trade monitors domestic and international political and policy horizons and provides strategic leadership and the forward sonar of perils and opportunities to policymakers, partner organizations and activists. It conducts research and analyses, and develops framing documents, reports, factsheets, strategy memos and legal analyses and other materials to inform advocacy work and contribute to national and international policy debates. Rethink Trade convenes strategic partners and designs inside-outside collaboration strategies to connect domestic and international policymakers, civil society leaders and others. Rethink Trade produces outward-facing communications for public education and thought leadership and uses other platforms to promote our policy alternatives and critiques.
To learn more about Rethink Trade, visit our website at www.RethinkTrade.org
To learn more about the American Economic Liberties Project, visit our website at www.economicliberties.us