Job Openings

Director of Programs

July 17, 2025

Location: New Haven, CT or Virtual

About the Buckley Institute

The mission of the Buckley Institute is to promote intellectual diversity and freedom of speech at Yale University. We aim to foster robust and open debate, provide a home for enlightened conservative thought, and expose students to often-unvoiced views. We believe that genuine intellectual diversity is essential for advancing critical inquiry and seek to challenge ideological complacency wherever it exists.

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CEO

July 7, 2025

Location: Virtual

About the Organization

MediaPedia is a nonprofit dedicated to exposing media bias and empowering Americans to seek truth without gatekeepers. Launched in January 2025, MediaPedia is building the largest, most transparent database of media outlets, journalists, and editorial influencers in the country—functioning like an IMDb for the news industry.

MediaPedia was created in response to the growing dominance of ideologically driven media watchdogs like NewsGuard and Ad Fontes, whose influence shapes which voices are…

Assistant Program Manager

June 30, 2025

Location: Virtual

About Napolitan Institute:

Napolitan Institute is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to lift up and amplify the voice of the American people so loudly that it cannot be ignored in the halls of power.

We are launching an innovative new program that leverages the power of AI to extract crucial insights from data to better understand the views and values of the American people. This program will be the first of its kind…

Grants and Research Coordinator

June 26, 2025

Location: Virtual

About Independent Institute

We are a non-profit, non-partisan, public-policy research and educational organization that shapes ideas into profound and lasting impact through publications, conferences, and effective multi-media programs. Our mission is to boldly advance peaceful, prosperous, and free societies grounded in a commitment to human worth and dignity.

Applying independent thinking to issues that matter, we create transformational ideas for today’s most pressing social and economic challenges. By connecting these ideas with organizations and networks, we…

Donor Relations Officer

June 26, 2025

Location: Virtual

About Independent Institute

We are a non-profit, non-partisan, public-policy research and educational organization that shapes ideas into profound and lasting impact through publications, conferences, and effective multi-media programs. Our mission is to boldly advance peaceful, prosperous, and free societies grounded in a commitment to human worth and dignity.

Applying independent thinking to issues that matter, we create transformational ideas for today’s most pressing social and economic challenges. By connecting these ideas with organizations and networks, we…

Director of Policy Communications

June 17, 2025

Location: Virtual

About ExcelinEd:

Being a part of ExcelinEd means joining a high-performing and motivated team of education advocates with a shared belief that every child deserves a quality education. Team members are committed to our core values of service, integrity, collaboration, expertise and making a difference. Our organization sets big, hairy audacious goals and works tirelessly to support states in transforming education through student-centered policies that increase student learning, expand opportunity and ready students for college plus careers.

Director of State Communications

June 17, 2025

Location: Virtual

About ExcelinEd:

Being a part of ExcelinEd means joining a high-performing and motivated team of education advocates with a shared belief that every child deserves a quality education. Team members are committed to our core values of service, integrity, collaboration, expertise and making a difference. Our organization sets big, hairy audacious goals and works tirelessly to support states in transforming education through student-centered policies that increase student learning, expand opportunity and ready students for college plus…

Director of Development

June 17, 2025

Location: Virtual

The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) is hiring a Director of Development to help us defend freedom, liberty, and opportunity in America’s schools and workplaces.

About DFI
Based in Washington, DC, DFI is a nonprofit legal and policy advocacy organization focused on federal education, workforce, and civil rights issues. It was launched by two members of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s leadership team in 2021. DFI envisions a republic…

Program Assistant

June 16, 2025

Location: Virtual

About RJE Empowerment Foundation

RJE Empowerment Foundation, the Emmet family’s newest private grantmaking foundation, is committed to the values of liberty and opportunity. The Foundation, at the direction of its Board, intends to support a variety of causes, including improving public policy, supporting liberty and opportunity for every American, improving mental health outcomes in communities, and increasing access to high-quality education for every child and family. The staff will have the opportunity to work closely…

Programs Associate

June 13, 2025

Location: Virtual

About FEE

The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the economic, ethical, and legal principles of a free society.

Since its founding in 1946, FEE has been committed to inspiring and educating individuals on the values of personal freedom, entrepreneurship, and sound economic thinking. Through various high-impact programs, digital content, publications, and events, FEE empowers individuals to understand the economic principles that drive prosperity and fosters a…