Director, Corporate Power & Financial Regulation

Summary

Join the Roosevelt Institute as their Director, Corporate and Financial Regulation! Lead the organization's portfolio of work focused on progressive financial regulation, corporate power constraints, and consumer protection. This role combines strategy development, research and writing, public speaking, and team management. Approximately 40% of your time will be dedicated to personal research and writing, 30% to managing fellows and contract authors, 20% to promoting program work, and 10% to administrative tasks. You will partner with team members and serve as the organization's expert on financial regulation, antitrust, and consumer protection. This is a non-people management role, with a preference for working near a Roosevelt Institute office in NYC or Washington, DC, though remote work is possible.

Requirements

• 10 years related experience
• Exceptional writing, editing, and communications skills
• Experience writing and/or communicating about financial regulation, corporate concentration, and consumer protection to a wide audience
• Deep knowledge of at least one of the subfields in this portfolio and demonstrated ability to manage experts in fields outside of a primary area of expertise
• Demonstrated success managing researchers across topics—including balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders and priorities (e.g., academic and research experts, advocacy and media goals) and ensuring timely delivery of projects
• Experience collaborating with teams across an organization to develop and execute program strategies, as well as troubleshooting and course-correcting as needed
• Passion for the Roosevelt Institute’s mission and paradigm-focused theory of change

Responsibilities

• Research and author reports and issue briefs on topics such as financial regulatory reform, antitrust, corporate oversight, digital currencies, banking, and consumer protection
• Author products accessible to a wide-variety of audience based on above research, for example op-eds, blog posts, and testimony
• Engage with fellows, external partners and outside experts to support research work
• Working with Principal Economist and in conjunction with government relations, development, and communications teams, develop a research agenda that might include financial regulatory reform, antitrust, corporate oversight, digital currencies, banking, and consumer protection among other topics. This will include identifying areas for new long-range thought leadership as well as for near-term policy change
• Where appropriate, represent the organization’s program work with press, government officials, funders, and allied organizations
• Partner with development team to articulate clear goals, strategies, and deliverables for proposals to support program work, and to track and report out on progress
• Build and lead a team of part-time fellows and contract experts, aligning them around goals, overseeing research product development, and ensuring that the whole of the program’s work and products is greater than the sum of its parts
• Oversee consistent product pipeline for program area and ensure all products meet the highest research standards, are positioned to drive strategic outcomes, and are delivered on time
• Manage and review the research and writing of fellows, contractors, and staff to ensure quality and rigor across all projects as well as timeliness for projects when near-term opportunities arise
• Partner with the Think Tank Director to guide research by junior staff in support of program goals

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degree in law, public policy, economics, or other related degree

Benefits

Salary: The salary range for this position is $155,000 to $170,000, plus benefits