Policy and Content Associate

1 month ago


London, United Kingdom MILKEN INSTITUTE Full time

**Salary range**: £42,000 - £55,000

**About the Milken Institute**

The Milken Institute is a globally minded, publicly supported, non-partisan, and nonprofit think tank headquartered in Santa Monica, with offices in Washington, DC, New York, London, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore. For the past three decades, the Milken Institute has served as a catalyst for practical, scalable solutions to global challenges by connecting human, financial, and educational resources to those who need them. Guided by a conviction that the best ideas, under-resourced, cannot succeed, we conduct research and analysis and convene top experts, innovators, and influencers from different backgrounds and competing viewpoints. We leverage this expertise and insight to construct programs and policy initiatives. These activities are designed to help people build meaningful lives, in which they can experience health and well-being, pursue effective education and gainful employment, and access the resources required to create ever-expanding opportunities for themselves and their broader communities.

**About the Position**

The individual will work with colleagues across the major pillars of the Milken Institute’s work: Finance, Health, Strategic Philanthropy, and our International offices, as well as closely with colleagues in the London office. Under the supervision of the Associate Director, Policy and Content, the Associate will firstly provide intellectual and practical organisational support for policy development projects across the Milken Institute’s areas of focus; and secondly will contribute ideas and assist in executing broader policy-related programming throughout the year by building relationships with key policy-related stakeholders, both within and without the Milken Institute, particularly in preparation for and during major conferences.

Broad intellectual and policy-related interests, attention to detail, diligence, time management, ability to work across time zones and proactivity are keys to success in this position. Opportunity for hybrid work environment.

**Policy work**
- Ability to work alongside the Associate Director to uncover problems to be solved through policy solutions, the imagination and willingness to work together to help frame the right questions to ask, and a structured thinker to help breakdown complicated issues and develop project plans to address them
- The flexibility to adopt a variety of different problem-solving methods to best answer any particular issue, whether qualitative/quantitative, survey research or developing frameworks and structured interviews
- An enthusiasm to expand both their personal and the Institute’s network in UK and European policy networks
- Responsibility for building and maintaining policy-specific networks in Salesforce for various policy topics of interest to the Institute
- Creating a list of foundations, public
- and private-sector sponsors for project work relating to various issues areas and maintaining these stakeholder lists in Salesforce
- Attending policy-specific events and being able to write memos on problems, ideas, speakers and other important outputs
- Identify potential media and other outputs for our policy work and maintain and update this list
- Assist in executing policy-related convenings and workshops so that invited policy experts find sessions both enjoyable and productive
- Willingness to co-write Op-Eds and shorter opinion articles, as well as positively contribute to the bigger White papers and other policy outputs

**Policy-related programming**
- A knowledge of and ability to identify interesting thinkers and speakers across issue areas, gained through reading widely, to help enrich our programming and contribute to policy thinking
- A willingness and ability to identify topics before they become mainstream, allowing us to convene experts and help set the agenda on emerging issues of importance
- Diplomatic skills in suggesting speakers for panels owned by others, as well as communicating with others within the Institute to quickly approve high-quality suggestions to maximise the impact of our own sessions

**General skills**
- Ability to manage complex projects and tasks in a fast-paced environment, requiring an ability to effectively prioritise and respond promptly to internal and external communications
- Eagerness to dive into new tasks and tackle them enthusiastically
- Innovative problem-solver who can generate workable solution ideas, test basic versions of solutions, rapidly incorporate feedback, and resolve issues in a timely fashion
- Motivated self-starter and hard worker displaying high productivity and follow-through in all areas of responsibility
- Seeks out tasks when work is completed and can anticipate needs over time
- An attitude of "no job is too small" and attention to detail that ensures rewarding experiences and outcomes for supporters and other stakeholders
- Team player who works well with colleagues at all le



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