Roosevelt Institute - Director, Corporate Power & Financial Regulation

Director, Corporate Power and Financial Regulation

Working Location: 

While this position can be performed remotely, it is preferred for the person in this role to work within relative availability to one of Roosevelt’s offices, located in either the New York City or Washington, DC areas.

What You’ll Do

The Roosevelt Institute is hiring a Director, Corporate and Financial Regulation to lead the organization’s portfolio of work focused on progressive financial regulation, constraining corporate power, and protecting consumers. The Director’s work will combine long-range strategy development, research and writing, spokesperson work, and day-to-day management. Their time will be divided roughly as follows: 40 percent personal research and writing; 30 percent managing fellows and contract authors; 20 percent promoting work of program; 10 percent administrative and management tasks (for example supporting the development team). Included in the time devoted to research and writing and fellows management may be supporting research associates and program managers. 

Reporting to the Principal Economist, the Director will partner with team members and leaders across the organization to develop, refine, and execute program strategy. The Director will also serve as Roosevelt’s primary resident expert on financial regulation, antitrust, and consumer protection—driving strategy and representing Roosevelt in the media, among advocacy groups, with funders, and with elected officials. Candidates with subject expertise in financial regulation, antitrust, budget-focused legislation, public economics, or any combination of the four are encouraged to apply.

This is a non-people management role.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Research and Writing: 

• 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. 

Program Strategy and Leadership: 

• 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.

Management:

• 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. 

What You’ll Have 

• Advanced degree in law, public policy, economics, or other related degree strongly preferred. 
• 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. 

Working Location: 

While this position can be performed remotely, it is preferred for the person in this role to work within relative availability to one of Roosevelt’s offices, located in either the New York City or Washington, DC areas.

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