About CEI
CEI is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to reforming America’s unaccountable regulatory state. We develop and advocate policies to eliminate harmful bureaucratic controls so people can live in a freer, healthier, and more prosperous nation. We believe economic freedom is essential for entrepreneurship, innovation, and prosperity to flourish. CEI pursues a full-service approach to advancing public policy, which includes conducting original scholarly research, active communications campaigns, direct advocacy with policymakers, and litigation.

About the Role
The Competitive Enterprise Institute seeks a Quantitative Policy Analyst to support CEI’s policy experts across all the domains of policy that CEI examines. This will include working with policy experts to help augment their work with quantitative evidence and reviewing and critiquing data analysis performed internally and externally. Candidates will be expected to keep track of work that is done at CEI or that is a significant part of the policy discourse. This position is most suitable for an individual with one to four years of experience working with data, highly engaged with national policy issues, and with a consistent free market outlook.

Culture matters; CEI is a feisty think tank that embraces a forward-thinking and entrepreneurial approach to policy change. Quantitative Policy Analysts are expected to be self-starters, strategic and creative. Members of the team operate with emphases on personal accountability, accountability to one another and to those in other departments at CEI. They work hard, have a good sense of humor and are intensely dedicated to conveying CEI’s principles of individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited government.

This position will be expected to work out of CEI’s downtown Washington, DC offices.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Conduct data analysis on CEI issues.
  • Work with policy experts to add quantitative support to writings to help persuade audiences.
  • Seek opportunities to contribute quantitative arguments to the entire range of products CEI generates, across all policy areas and media.
  • Construct clear, easy-to-understand charts and graphs that convey quantitative arguments and influence policy discussions.
  • Review CEI work to ensure quantitative arguments are sound.
  • Track major datasets from the Census Bureau, BLS, BEA, etc., relevant to policy work to provide guidance.
  • Assess the quantitative analysis of outside experts.
  • Communicate quantitative approaches and analysis to people with a range of expertise.

Qualifications

  • 2-4+ years as data analyst or comparable education or training.
  • Experience working with and presenting data to convey a message and a passion for public policy.
  • An entrepreneurial spirit is integral. As a new role, the Quantitative Policy Analyst will have the opportunity and the expectation to insert him or herself into many different projects.
  • Strong quantitative, communication, and organizational skills required.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Microsoft Excel essential.

Characteristics
If you believe that this position may be a good fit, these words will describe you:

  • Self-starter. You are willing and able to jump into project management. You know when to ask for help, but, once trained, you don’t need hand-holding. You’re comfortable receiving increasing autonomy to manage your own work and important processes.
  • Detail Oriented. You are relentless about accuracy with regard to content and value good writing style.
  • Curious and Policy-Minded. You like public policy and are curious enough to enjoy the challenge of taking complex policy ideas and distilling them in ways that are both factually accurate and interesting to external audiences.
  • Communicator. You have excellent oral communication and public affairs experience provides added benefit.
  • Team Player. You will be on a team of committed individuals within the Center for Economic Freedom and also be expected to work with members of other Centers within CEI.
  • Teachable. You are eager to learn new things and have an open attitude toward the mundane nature of some research tasks.
  • Flexible. You easily maintain a positive, flexible attitude whenever needs or priorities shift.
  • Aligned. You are ideologically libertarian or conservative and can discuss your philosophical alignment with CEI’s mission and vision. Please see the CEI website, cei.org, for a deeper understanding of the organization’s policy agenda.

This position has a salary range of $90,000-$130,000, commensurate with the candidate’s experience.

To Apply
To apply, qualified individuals should submit the following application materials in one PDF document:

  • Cover letter including:
    • An introductory paragraph(s) describing three distinct reasons you are drawn to CEI’s mission and how you came to those beliefs. Be sure to include at least one specific policy area that resonates with you.
    • Salary requirements
  • Resume
  • Two Writing Samples (no more than 5 pages each, can be relevant excerpts from longer work); writing samples must demonstrate use of data and communicating that analysis to a general audience.
  • Three or more professional and/or personal references

Applications should be submitted to Talent Market via this link: talentmarket.org/apply-for-your-dream-job/.

Questions can be directed to Stephanie Keaveney, Senior Manager of Outreach at Talent Market, who is managing the search process: [email protected].

There is no application deadline for this position. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. This job will remain posted on our site until it is filled.

While we thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position, we are only able to contact those to whom we can offer an interview. Only direct applications will be considered. No phone calls, please.

Talent Market is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting liberty by helping free-market nonprofits identify talent for critical roles. We provide consulting and recruiting services at no cost to 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations that clearly and directly focus on advancing the principles of economic freedom, free enterprise, free trade, free speech, property rights, rule of law, and limited regulation.