Employment
Now Hiring: Director, Center for Tenth Amendment Action
- A self-starter. This position is a leadership position, with minimal daily oversight and exceedingly high expectations. The person leading this fight must be willing and able to conceive and develop innovative ideas independently and often -- and bring them to fruition.
- A media presence. Policy begins with persuasion, and in a sphere like this, the Director of this Center must possess a presence with the credibility and appeal to explain and defend them.
- A writer. This Director must possess the aptitude for graceful prose that conveys complicated concepts convincingly.
- A thinker. Specifically, the Director of this Center must be a legal thinker, preferably with a Juris Doctorate, able to grasp Constitutional law sufficient for solo authorship of amicus briefs to federal courts.
- A veteran. The Director of this Center must bring to a table substantive experience in policymaking, legislation, law, and/or media -- and a proven record of accomplishment
Now Hiring: Managing Editor
Description:
The Managing Research Editor will work with the vice president of research, the executive director, and other leaders of the Foundation to produce in-depth, innovative, accurate, and timely research by editing the papers of the Foundation’s analysts. This position will also assist the VP of Research in managing the research process and developing of the Foundation’s research and legislative agendas.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Work under the direction of the VP Research to manage the day to day aspects of the research production process, including scheduling and monitoring progress
- Edit the Foundation’s research papers in collaboration with the VP Research
- Ensure that all research and related output reflect the principles of the Foundation
- Maintain and update the Foundation’s TrackEverything system & Research Dashboard to track the workflow and output of the research staff
- Work closely and communicate with the Communications Division to assist in the release of the Foundation’s research papers
- Monitor legislative outreach following the release of research papers
- Assist the Executive Director and VP Research in developing and implementing goals, planning, and related work for the Research Division
- Develop new practices and procedures to improve the efficiency and output of the research process
- Effectively advocate for the Foundation’s principles and collaborate with various constituents of the Foundation, including elected officials and the media
- As time allows, write Foundation publications where his or her expertise is required to further the Foundation’s mission
Qualifications:
- Completion of an educational level that, in conjunction with relevant job experience, demonstrates a level of competence in the areas necessary to fulfill the responsibilities and duties of the position.
- Relevant legislative and/or policy experience with a consistently high level of performance, including knowledge of Texas legislative and policy issues and processes
- A track record of support of free market principles, understanding of core economic principles, and personal integrity
- The ability to manage the Foundation’s day-to-day research production process
- Excellent writing, research, and editing skills
- Ability to comprehend/analyze complex legislative and regulatory issues, develop detailed, practical, free-market recommendations, provide quality research, and assist staff in doing the same
- Demonstrated ability to make the Foundation’s research recommendations become public policy in Texas
Please send cover letter, references, resume, salary range and a writing sample to:
Greg Sindelar
Texas Public Policy Foundation
Now Hiring: Policy Analyst, Center for Economic Freedom
Description:
The economic freedom policy analyst will research, write about, and educate policymakers, the media, and the public on various policy issues, including energy/electricity markets; homeowners’ insurance; telecommunications; economic freedom; property rights; and tort reform, so that Texas’ public policy reflects sound free-market principles.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Writing well-researched, well-argued papers with detailed, workable recommendations on many of the complex policy issues facing the state of Texas
- Helping the recommendations from the Center’s research become public policy in Texas through meetings with policymakers, staff and other stakeholders, public testimony, and outreach to the media and the public
- Proactively identifying and taking advantage of opportunities where the Center can impact public policy, such as:
- collaboration with various stakeholders, organizations, and state/national think tanks to ensure quality research and recommendations
- input into the policy development process of legislative committees and state agencies
- generating research and commentary that anticipates and takes advantage of media coverage of the Center’s issues
- Organizing and carrying out the day-to-day activities of the Center, including planning, managing deadlines, preparing reports, responding to requests, etc.
- Drafting model legislation and amendments
- Organizing various policy events/activities designed to educate policymakers, stakeholders, the media, and the general public
- Supporting other work of the Foundation
Qualifications:
- Completion of an educational level that, in conjunction with relevant job experience, demonstrates a level of competence in the areas necessary to fulfill the responsibilities and duties of the position.
- Three to five years of relevant legislative, policy, and/or media experience
- Excellent writing, editing, and public presentation skills
- Understanding of core economic principles and support of free market principles
- Ability to comprehend/analyze complex legislative and regulatory issues
- Ability to effectively advocate the Foundation’s principles and recommendations
The position’s salary will be commensurate with the experience, expertise, and skills of the analyst who takes the position. Please send cover letter, resume, salary requirement, and references to:
Greg Sindelar, Director of Operations
Now Hiring: Policy Analyst, Center for Effective Justice
Description:
The policy analyst in the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice engages in research, writing, project management, policymaker education, outreach, and public and media communications with a focus on juvenile corrections issues, as well as adult corrections, victim empowerment, and overcriminalization, for the Foundation and its Right on Crime initiative. The goals of the Center are enhancing public safety, empowering victims, reducing costs to taxpayers, and limiting the scope of criminal law to wrongful conduct. The Center has worked closely with policymakers in Texas and across the nation to develop and implement cost-effective alternatives to incarceration that also reduce crime, restore victims, and strengthen families and communities.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Researching, analyzing and making recommendations on the Foundation’s policy issues
- Effectively communicating the Foundation’s policy recommendations to key stakeholders, including legislators, their staff and the media
- Working with other organizations throughout the country
- Project management and coalition building
- Writing policy briefs, perspectives, research studies, commentaries, testimony, and blog postings
- Monitoring and testifying before various legislative committees and state agencies
- Organizing various policy events/activities designed to educate policymakers, stakeholders, the media, and the general public
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree; Graduate degree in law, public affairs, communications, criminal justice, or another relevant field preferred
- Excellent writing, editing, and public presentation skills
- Experience and proficiency in interacting with legislators, media, stakeholders, and the general public
- Ability to comprehend/analyze complex legislative and regulatory issues
- Ability to effectively advocate for the Foundation’s principles and recommendations
- Experience and knowledge relating to criminal justice is desired, but not required
Please send cover letter, references, resume, salary range and a writing sample to:
Greg Sindelar
Texas Public Policy Foundation
Now Hiring: Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
Description:
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a policy research institute; a think tank; a major presence in state, national, and international media; and more. We shape Texas policy according to the principles of individual responsibility, limited government, and fiscal rectitude. We fight Washington, D.C. policy that threatens those things. And most important, we advance the vision of a society of prosperity and freedom that has proven its case again and again.
We need someone to tie this tale together: a master at crafting our narrative and selling it – and translating that sale into the donations, the support, and the sustenance that makes it all possible. We need someone who grasps the moral truths undergirding our work for liberty and can communicate it, with all the urgency and immediacy of the imperative of “now,” to the biggest donors and philanthropists in Texas and across America. We need someone who can look the most ardent, most well-resourced, and most discerning supporters of freedom's cause directly in the eye and draw upon deep reserves of credibility, savvy, and experience in convincing them that this Foundation is the most compelling, most effective, and most urgent investment they can make for the Lone Star State and for the country.
If that's you – if landing the tens of millions of dollars it takes to fight this battle is your bailiwick – if you rise each morning wondering what you shall do next for America and for liberty – then we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Develop, cultivate, and secure major gifts for the Foundation’s work • Develop, maintain, and nurture alliances and national strategic partnerships • Contribute, in a results-focused environment, new strategies that maximize opportunities and accomplish
fundraising goals
• Support the President and Executive Director in creating and carrying out the strategic plan and vision of the
Foundation
Qualifications:
• Experience in nonprofit fundraising with a track record of success
• Knowledge of free market donors and national/state network a major plus
• Superb story-telling, communication, and debate skills
• Experience managing teams preferable
• Strong project management skills and ability to organize, multi-task, set priorities and follow through
• Strong commitment to the principles of personal responsibility and free enterprise
• Ability to travel regularly, including nationally on occasion
• Personable, self-motivated, and professional
• Bachelor’s Degree
The position’s salary will be commensurate with the experience, expertise, and skills of the person who takes the position. Please send cover letter, resume, salary requirement, and references to:
Greg Sindelar, Director of Operations
Now Hiring: Internship Program
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is pleased to announce our semester-based internship program. We have internship positions available every Fall, Spring, and Summer.
These positions give undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to enter the state policy realm with Texas’ leading free market think tank. Download the position information and application form.
Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow Program
Interested applicants can intern at the Texas Public Policy Foundation through the Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow Program, administered by the Institute for Humane Studies and the State Policy Network. In addition to an eight-week summer internship, the program provides a $1,500 stipend, housing allowance, travel reimbursement, and two week-long seminars in Washington, DC, with other fellows interning at think tanks across the United States. Applicants should apply separately to this program here. Deadline: January 31 of each year.
