Senior Manager, Business Program Management
Vanguard
Research Associate, Foreign and Defense Policy
Cato Institute
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • District of Columbia, Washington
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💰 $52,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Responsibilities
- Support the research of the scholars of the foreign and defense team
- Read and summarize scholarly work and news articles
- Summarize public speeches and other presentations
- Conduct historical research
- Help run the department’s social media accounts
- Support the administrative and organizational needs of the foreign and defense team.
Requirements
- A master’s degree in political science, international relations, or history is preferred, but extraordinary candidates with lesser qualifications will be considered and are encouraged to apply.
- Applicants should have a passionate interest in US foreign policy, ideally with the desire to become foreign-policy scholars themselves.
- An understanding of and interest in Cato’s mission.
- Strong reading, writing, and editing skills, with the ability to reduce large and complex texts to dense summaries.
- Strong organizational skills, including the ability to work on multiple tasks both independently and as part of a team on a time-sensitive basis.
- Strong verbal communication and the ability to present work publicly in front of groups.
- A commitment to accuracy and precision.
