Institute for Policy Studies
remote
A 10-week virtual program, Next Leaders offers young activists training in public scholarship, that is, the connection between policy research, advocacy, and grassroots activism. Through its workshop and events series and individualized mentorship, Next Leaders looks to sharpen young scholar-activists’ voices and hone their skills. In addition to hands-on experience, each cohort will leave the program with a more nuanced understanding of environmental, racial, economic, gender, and peace justice.
Here’s a little bit more about how the program works. It’s broken into four parts:
1.Workshop and Events Series – We’ve prepared a curriculum of weekly workshops and events geared toward the following:
Building community within your cohort
Sparking intergenerational dialogue to brainstorm around new pressure points in the policy world
Sharing skills needed to become a successful public scholar
Providing a crash course on the frameworks, history, and current events of the progressive movement and policy sphere
In addition to strengthened public scholarship skills, each cohort will leave the program with a more nuanced understanding of environmental, racial, economic, gender, and peace justice. Past workshops have included Op-ed Writing, Public Speaking, Racial Justice and Critical Race Theory, Power-Mapping and the Modern-day Labor Movement, and Restorative Justice.
2. Mentorship – Each participant will get hands-on experience by working on one of our projects and will receive individualized mentorship and training from one of our IPS public scholars. Typical responsibilities include research, writing, shadowing on events with core allies, occasional “trips” to the Hill (which will now be virtual), and helping us with our social media presence. All of our interns also have the opportunity to work with our skilled editors and write for our in-house publications, and we often see participants’ work placed in notable publications such as USA Today and the Nation. Our interns work within one of the following core areas:
Economic and Racial Justice: Combating inequality means both lifting up and building power at the bottom, and breaking up concentration of wealth and power at the top. That’s why we work at the intersection of economic and racial justice through projects designed to build leadership and self-empowerment of black workers, immigrant workers, and low-wage workers, youth and families affected by incarceration, along with projects aiming to reverse the rules that criminalize poor people of color, and projects fighting to ensure that the wealthy and Wall Street corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
Climate Justice: In order to avert a climate catastrophe, we must transition away from fossil fuels to a clean energy economy. On both a domestic and a global level, climate change hurts poor people and communities of color first and worst, so we seek solutions that center economic and racial justice as critical components of addressing climate change.
Fundraising and Development: Interested in the nonprofit sector, or starting your own nonprofit someday? Fundraising is critical to the success and longterm health of every nonprofit organization. A fundraising and development internship is a great opportunity to see how a fundraising office works, and get involved in conversations around donor communications, event outreach strategy, and donor cultivation.
Peace and Foreign Policy: To build peace, we must dislodge the economic and political foundations of war. IPS believes that a just foreign policy is based on human rights, international law, and diplomacy over military intervention.
3.Intergenerational Dialogue – A centerpiece of our definition of public scholarship is that we work on ideas with movement allies. Through the Next Leaders Program you’ll not only get plugged into the larger progressive network, but you’ll also be exposed to best practices of coalition building, grassroots activism, and organizing. And, you’ll have a chance to design your own mini-dialogue series with your cohort and our staff.
4.Coaching and Career Development – We want to see our fellows find lasting careers in social change. Each fellow will receive at least 3 individual coaching sessions and resume reviews during the program and follow-up support after the program.
COMPENSATION AND ACADEMIC CREDIT
We offer an hourly wage of $15 for 37.5 hours weekly to offset the cost of working with IPS while you help us build the future of the progressive movement.
IPS firmly believes that financial barriers shouldn’t exclude people from internship opportunities, and we are grateful to our donors who have made it possible to ensure this internship is paid. However, we strongly encourage applicants to find resources through their schools and other scholarships if they have the ability to do so. Many schools offer assistance for summer internship programs, and we ask that all applicants explore those options first in order to allow us to accept a greater number of interns that do not have access to those resources.
Interns may also receive academic credit, and IPS is happy to assist interns in filling out any requisite forms to help with the credit process.
APPLICATION INFORMATION AND TIMELINE
Summer 2021 Application Deadline: March 21, 2021 by 5 PM EST
March 21 – April 5, 2021: Final applicants will be contacted for interviews, interviewed, and notified of acceptance to the program during this time. Due to the high volume of applications, only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.
June 1, 2021: Internship begins (please note, June 1st and June 2nd are important orientation days !)
August 6th, 2021: Internship ends
Interns are expected to be available Monday-Friday(37.5 hours per week). Please state your availability on your application. While we can offer some flexibility for students with special circumstances, we want to plan our workshop series with the highest level of attendance possible.
Our ideal applicants will be interested in exploring lasting careers in social justice, will be conversational and persuasive writers, and will have a deep belief in intersectional, equitable solutions. We are deeply committed to recruiting a diverse group of candidates. The ideal candidates are interested in seeking careers in social change, and are deeply rooted in their communities (however they are defined) or have a history of activism around issues they care about. Although we are not explicitly limiting our applicant pool, we believe that rising Juniors, Seniors, recent graduates, and first year master’s students will gain the most from this program.
Please fill out the application form . You are welcome to apply for up to two internship positions (descriptions listed in depth on our website.
A 10-week virtual program, Next Leaders offers young activists training in public scholarship, that is, the connection between policy research, advocacy, and grassroots activism. Through its workshop and events series and individualized mentorship, Next Leaders looks to sharpen young scholar-activists’ voices and hone their skills. In addition to hands-on experience, each cohort will leave the program with a more nuanced understanding of environmental, racial, economic, gender, and peace justice.
Here’s a little bit more about how the program works. It’s broken into four parts:
1.Workshop and Events Series – We’ve prepared a curriculum of weekly workshops and events geared toward the following:
Building community within your cohort
Sparking intergenerational dialogue to brainstorm around new pressure points in the policy world
Sharing skills needed to become a successful public scholar
Providing a crash course on the frameworks, history, and current events of the progressive movement and policy sphere
In addition to strengthened public scholarship skills, each cohort will leave the program with a more nuanced understanding of environmental, racial, economic, gender, and peace justice. Past workshops have included Op-ed Writing, Public Speaking, Racial Justice and Critical Race Theory, Power-Mapping and the Modern-day Labor Movement, and Restorative Justice.
2. Mentorship – Each participant will get hands-on experience by working on one of our projects and will receive individualized mentorship and training from one of our IPS public scholars. Typical responsibilities include research, writing, shadowing on events with core allies, occasional “trips” to the Hill (which will now be virtual), and helping us with our social media presence. All of our interns also have the opportunity to work with our skilled editors and write for our in-house publications, and we often see participants’ work placed in notable publications such as USA Today and the Nation. Our interns work within one of the following core areas:
Economic and Racial Justice: Combating inequality means both lifting up and building power at the bottom, and breaking up concentration of wealth and power at the top. That’s why we work at the intersection of economic and racial justice through projects designed to build leadership and self-empowerment of black workers, immigrant workers, and low-wage workers, youth and families affected by incarceration, along with projects aiming to reverse the rules that criminalize poor people of color, and projects fighting to ensure that the wealthy and Wall Street corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
Climate Justice: In order to avert a climate catastrophe, we must transition away from fossil fuels to a clean energy economy. On both a domestic and a global level, climate change hurts poor people and communities of color first and worst, so we seek solutions that center economic and racial justice as critical components of addressing climate change.
Fundraising and Development: Interested in the nonprofit sector, or starting your own nonprofit someday? Fundraising is critical to the success and longterm health of every nonprofit organization. A fundraising and development internship is a great opportunity to see how a fundraising office works, and get involved in conversations around donor communications, event outreach strategy, and donor cultivation.
Peace and Foreign Policy: To build peace, we must dislodge the economic and political foundations of war. IPS believes that a just foreign policy is based on human rights, international law, and diplomacy over military intervention.
3.Intergenerational Dialogue – A centerpiece of our definition of public scholarship is that we work on ideas with movement allies. Through the Next Leaders Program you’ll not only get plugged into the larger progressive network, but you’ll also be exposed to best practices of coalition building, grassroots activism, and organizing. And, you’ll have a chance to design your own mini-dialogue series with your cohort and our staff.
4.Coaching and Career Development – We want to see our fellows find lasting careers in social change. Each fellow will receive at least 3 individual coaching sessions and resume reviews during the program and follow-up support after the program.
COMPENSATION AND ACADEMIC CREDIT
We offer an hourly wage of $15 for 37.5 hours weekly to offset the cost of working with IPS while you help us build the future of the progressive movement.
IPS firmly believes that financial barriers shouldn’t exclude people from internship opportunities, and we are grateful to our donors who have made it possible to ensure this internship is paid. However, we strongly encourage applicants to find resources through their schools and other scholarships if they have the ability to do so. Many schools offer assistance for summer internship programs, and we ask that all applicants explore those options first in order to allow us to accept a greater number of interns that do not have access to those resources.
Interns may also receive academic credit, and IPS is happy to assist interns in filling out any requisite forms to help with the credit process.
APPLICATION INFORMATION AND TIMELINE
Summer 2021 Application Deadline: March 21, 2021 by 5 PM EST
March 21 – April 5, 2021: Final applicants will be contacted for interviews, interviewed, and notified of acceptance to the program during this time. Due to the high volume of applications, only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.
June 1, 2021: Internship begins (please note, June 1st and June 2nd are important orientation days !)
August 6th, 2021: Internship ends
Interns are expected to be available Monday-Friday(37.5 hours per week). Please state your availability on your application. While we can offer some flexibility for students with special circumstances, we want to plan our workshop series with the highest level of attendance possible.
Our ideal applicants will be interested in exploring lasting careers in social justice, will be conversational and persuasive writers, and will have a deep belief in intersectional, equitable solutions. We are deeply committed to recruiting a diverse group of candidates. The ideal candidates are interested in seeking careers in social change, and are deeply rooted in their communities (however they are defined) or have a history of activism around issues they care about. Although we are not explicitly limiting our applicant pool, we believe that rising Juniors, Seniors, recent graduates, and first year master’s students will gain the most from this program.
Please fill out the application form . You are welcome to apply for up to two internship positions (descriptions listed in depth on our website.
Institute for Policy Studies
Managing Editor of Inequality.org
Managing Editor of Inequality.org
Reports To: Global Economy Project Director
Salary: $50,000 – $54,000 depending on experience, with excellent benefits (see below)
FTE: Full-Time position, located in Washington, DC once the office re-opens
Position Overview: The Inequality team at the Institute for Policy Studies works with partners to reverse the maldistribution of income and wealth that is undermining our democracy, fraying our social fabric, and destroying our planet. What we do:
Partner with grassroots and policy organizations to develop and advocate for policy changes that reduce inequality.
Publicize timely and compelling statistics, research, and analysis through our Inequality.org website and accompanying weekly newsletter.
Elevate the profiles of diverse champions in the battle against extreme inequality by disseminating their stories, strategies, and lessons through the media.
Conduct in-depth original research, with particular expertise on drivers of economic inequality, including tax policy, labor exploitation, executive pay, Wall Street speculation, and the racial wealth divide.
Disrupt the narratives that legitimate our current levels of extreme inequality by unpacking common myths and building powerful counter-narratives.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Operate as the managing editor of the Inequality.org website and weekly newsletter, ensuring that the content stays fresh and meets high-quality standards for a broad, general audience
Work with other IPS staff to promote Inequality.org content on social media
Solicit and edit submissions from activists and scholars to expand the corps of contributors to Inequality.org
Coordinate a team including the IPS website manager, digital communications strategist, and other staff to monitor the Inequality.org website and newsletter analytics and develop strategies for expanding our reach
Help develop and maintain an Inequality.org style guide and technical guide
Work with an IPS team to produce reports, articles, interactive graphics, and other materials that are useful for the key campaigns of low-wage and immigrant worker organizations and other social movement groups working to reverse extreme inequality
QUALIFICATIONS Required
At least three years of experience, with a strong track record of high-quality writing, editing, and proofreading on deadline for a mass audience
Bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, communications, or a related field
Familiarity with the key drivers of inequality in the United States and globally
Ability to develop strong working relationships with people of diverse backgrounds and writing abilities
Experience working with a WordPress online content management system, Adobe Creative Suite software products (especially Photoshop), and newsletter databases like EveryAction, as well as a basic knowledge of HTML
Demonstrated success with expanding an organization’s Twitter reach and reach of other social media outlets
Experience with Google Analytics and other analytical tools for the online environment
BENEFITS Excellent benefits including generous vacation, 403(b) plan upon hire, fully paid dependent health insurance, fully paid life insurance, fully paid long-term disability, optional short-term disability, direct deposit, and flex time. While we are presently each working remotely, we are excited to return to our newly renovated office in the future. The IPS DC office is centrally located in Dupont Circle with sunny windows and a gym on the ground floor.
TO APPLY
Please send a cover letter, resume, three references, and a brief writing sample to apply@ips-dc.org with “Managing Editor of Inequality.org” in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and we are hoping to hire as soon as possible. Qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview. No phone calls, please.
IPS is strengthened by the diversity of our staff and board, and we actively welcome applications from people of color, women, LGBTQ candidates, and candidates who hold other historically marginalized identities. To help us ensure our candidate pool reflects the broader world, we ask that you complete a voluntary demographic survey .
Thank you very much for your interest in working with us.
Managing Editor of Inequality.org
Managing Editor of Inequality.org
Reports To: Global Economy Project Director
Salary: $50,000 – $54,000 depending on experience, with excellent benefits (see below)
FTE: Full-Time position, located in Washington, DC once the office re-opens
Position Overview: The Inequality team at the Institute for Policy Studies works with partners to reverse the maldistribution of income and wealth that is undermining our democracy, fraying our social fabric, and destroying our planet. What we do:
Partner with grassroots and policy organizations to develop and advocate for policy changes that reduce inequality.
Publicize timely and compelling statistics, research, and analysis through our Inequality.org website and accompanying weekly newsletter.
Elevate the profiles of diverse champions in the battle against extreme inequality by disseminating their stories, strategies, and lessons through the media.
Conduct in-depth original research, with particular expertise on drivers of economic inequality, including tax policy, labor exploitation, executive pay, Wall Street speculation, and the racial wealth divide.
Disrupt the narratives that legitimate our current levels of extreme inequality by unpacking common myths and building powerful counter-narratives.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Operate as the managing editor of the Inequality.org website and weekly newsletter, ensuring that the content stays fresh and meets high-quality standards for a broad, general audience
Work with other IPS staff to promote Inequality.org content on social media
Solicit and edit submissions from activists and scholars to expand the corps of contributors to Inequality.org
Coordinate a team including the IPS website manager, digital communications strategist, and other staff to monitor the Inequality.org website and newsletter analytics and develop strategies for expanding our reach
Help develop and maintain an Inequality.org style guide and technical guide
Work with an IPS team to produce reports, articles, interactive graphics, and other materials that are useful for the key campaigns of low-wage and immigrant worker organizations and other social movement groups working to reverse extreme inequality
QUALIFICATIONS Required
At least three years of experience, with a strong track record of high-quality writing, editing, and proofreading on deadline for a mass audience
Bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, communications, or a related field
Familiarity with the key drivers of inequality in the United States and globally
Ability to develop strong working relationships with people of diverse backgrounds and writing abilities
Experience working with a WordPress online content management system, Adobe Creative Suite software products (especially Photoshop), and newsletter databases like EveryAction, as well as a basic knowledge of HTML
Demonstrated success with expanding an organization’s Twitter reach and reach of other social media outlets
Experience with Google Analytics and other analytical tools for the online environment
BENEFITS Excellent benefits including generous vacation, 403(b) plan upon hire, fully paid dependent health insurance, fully paid life insurance, fully paid long-term disability, optional short-term disability, direct deposit, and flex time. While we are presently each working remotely, we are excited to return to our newly renovated office in the future. The IPS DC office is centrally located in Dupont Circle with sunny windows and a gym on the ground floor.
TO APPLY
Please send a cover letter, resume, three references, and a brief writing sample to apply@ips-dc.org with “Managing Editor of Inequality.org” in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and we are hoping to hire as soon as possible. Qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview. No phone calls, please.
IPS is strengthened by the diversity of our staff and board, and we actively welcome applications from people of color, women, LGBTQ candidates, and candidates who hold other historically marginalized identities. To help us ensure our candidate pool reflects the broader world, we ask that you complete a voluntary demographic survey .
Thank you very much for your interest in working with us.