Responsibilities

• Key responsibilities include: website management; project management of communications outputs; supporting design for social media, policy briefs, newsletters, and presentations; coordinating communications and other logistics helping deliver events; and facilitating the efficient utilization of systems for engagement tracking, contact management and collaborative project management.
• External Communications
• - Manage and update website content to showcase new development economics research – working papers, publications, policy briefs, and study findings.
• - Build and redesign webpages across existing platforms to support new studies, publications, events and personnel.
• - Draft, edit, and publish social media content, including through affiliated organizations, that highlights our research on growth, poverty, and inclusion and its policy and real-world relevance in low- and middle-income countries, coordinating with team members on content input.
• - Edit short videos of events and interviews for the website and social media.
• - Manage social media feeds across platforms (currently LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Facebook), including tracking and reporting metrics.
• - Manage mailing lists and newsletters reaching researcher, policy, and funder audiences.
• - With input and guidance from research and communications teams, develop and design online and print communications materials, brochures, presentations, newsletters, annual reports, and other collateral and presentation materials; make artistic layouts independently under general supervision and within brand guidelines; create and maintain electronic library of photos, data visualizations and other communications-related elements and templates.
• - Support the organization of in-person, hybrid, and online events and conferences – including flagship convenings that are major moments for the development economics field and draw leading scholars and policymakers, Nobel laureates among them – in collaboration with team members: coordinating speakers and guests, developing and disseminating communications material, advertising across social media and other channels, and arranging video and recording logistics.

Requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English; ability to communicate complex economics research methods and insights clearly and succinctly for a general interest audience.
• Background or knowledge of development economics preferred.
• Strong project management skills required, with experience using tools such as Asana an asset.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a willingness to interact with a wide range of individuals ranging from Research Associates to academics, donors, research institutions, etc.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in economics, public policy or related field.
• Two years of experience in a communications-focused role, ideally focused on development economics research or development policy.
• Experience in a university, research organization, or non-profit communications environment preferred.

Preferred

• Background in economics, international development, or a related field is a distinct asset.
• Graphic design and/or website design experience (in platforms such as Drupal, Adobe, or Canva) strongly preferred.
• Two years of experience in a communications-focused role, ideally focused on development economics research or development policy.
• Experience in a university, research organization, or non-profit communications environment preferred.

Benefits

• A general description of the benefits to be offered with this Managerial & Professional position is available at: Yale Benefits