Research and Administrative Assistant
The Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives is seeking full-time research and administrative assistant to join its team in Washington, DC.
The RAA position offers you the opportunity to work with and learn from leading monetary policy and financial regulation scholars and participate in all aspects of the Center’s work while developing skills in economic and legal research, social media management, and project management.
About Cato:
The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization—a think tank—dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Its scholars and analysts conduct independent, nonpartisan research on a wide range of policy issues.
Founded in 1977, Cato owes its name to Cato’s Letters, a series of essays published in 18th- century England that presented a vision of a society free from excessive government power. Those essays inspired the architects of the American Revolution. And the simple, timeless principles of that revolution—individual liberty, limited government, and free markets—turn out to be even more powerful in today’s world of global markets and unprecedented access to information than Jefferson or Madison could have imagined. Social and economic freedom is not just the best policy for a free people, it is the indispensable framework for the future.
Cato’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives is dedicated to building a better tomorrow through monetary and financial alternatives. By exploring reforms that capture the power of markets to provide for people’s welfare and working with policymakers, academics, the press, the private sector, and the public, the CMFA is developing ideas for a robust, resilient, innovative, and inclusive monetary and financial system worthy of a free and prosperous society.
What We’re Looking For:
The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial individual with excellent research and writing skills; the ability to understand, synthesize, and distill complex information and scholarly and legal materials, particularly in the fields of monetary policy and financial regulation; and a knack for time management, prioritizing tasks, and getting the job done. She or he will have at least a BA or equivalent, preferably with a major, or courses taken, in economics or finance. Finally, she or he will have a commitment to the Center’s mission to identify and promote alternatives to existing monetary and financial regulatory systems that are more conducive to a stable, flourishing, and free society.
What You’ll Do:
- Provide research assistance for a team of monetary and financial markets scholars, including (1) finding sources and writing literature reviews, (2) distilling complex information into intelligible documents for use in policy analyses and Op-Eds, (3) finding and visualizing moderately complex monetary and financial markets data, (4) providing background on new topics, and (5) other projects as assigned.
- Give administrative support to the Center and its scholars.
- Manage and create content for the Center’s social media.
- Draft the weekly CMFA “Big Change” newsletter.
- Draft short-form Center publications summarizing events and research.
- Help administer the Center’s online forum, Alt-M.org.
- Oversee the CMFA interns.
- Report on congressional hearings and events relevant to the Center’s portfolio.
- Monitor monetary and financial markets media and analysis.
- Other duties as assigned.
Salary and Benefits
- Salary commensurate with experience.
- Competitive benefits package.
How to Apply
Submit an application package with the following information:
- Cover letter
- Resume or CV
- Writing Sample