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Senior Fellow: Good-
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About the role
- The Senior Fellow for Good-Jobs Democracy will focus on repairing the structural links between democracy and economic power.
- This fellow will work to ensure economic policy serves all workers, particularly those historically excluded due to race, gender, or status.
- Analytical Impact: Ensure all policy decisions are analytically informed, focusing on the projected scale of impact and the number of workers assisted, in partnership with the VP of Narrative and Impact.
Responsibilities
- Identify and develop policies that connect economic stability-such as higher wages and affordable necessities for workers-to a stronger, more inclusive democracy.
- Develop ideas for policy change that balance other work on unemployment insurance and worker protections enforcement by focusing on tangible wage and affordability outcomes.
- Economic-Democracy Linkage: Identify and develop policies that connect economic stability-such as higher wages and affordable necessities for workers-to a stronger, more inclusive democracy.
- Advocacy Alignment: Develop ideas for policy change that balance other work on unemployment insurance and worker protections enforcement by focusing on tangible wage and affordability outcomes.
Requirements
- Expertise in the intersection of labor policy and economic policy.
- Experience in policy development related to labor as it affects democracy.
- Fellow must be available to attend internal meetings (estimated 2 hours per week.) Additionally, Fellow must be able to participate in-person at a NELP convening in September in either Washington DC or New York.
- Strong commitment to dismantling structural racism within economic and democratic institutions.
- Program Logistics
- Duration: 6 months (June - November/December)
- Contract: Consultancy
- Availability: Fellow must be available to attend internal meetings (estimated 2 hours per week.) Additionally, Fellow must be able to participate in-person at a NELP convening in September in either Washington DC or New York.
- Reporting: Reports to the VP of Policy and Strategy.
Compensation
- NELP offers competitive compensation.
- Application Deadline and Instructions
- Deadline: Please apply no later than May 25, 2026
- Instructions: Submit a resume and expression of interest highlighting your experience and availability.
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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