Job Description
Position Overview
AV’s Criminal Justice (CJ) team aims to make communities safer and make the criminal justice system fairer and more effective, based on high-quality research evidence. The CJ team works with experts from inside and outside government and across disciplines to reform the U.S. criminal justice system through research, evidence, testing innovative pilot programs, and policy change.
The CJ team is keenly aware of the role that market inefficiencies, market failures, missing markets and misaligned incentives play in creating barriers to a fairer and more effective criminal justice system. Unequal access within the system and misallocation of resources, for example, are issues in the criminal justice system that arise as a result. The team is eager to explore policy development and private market solutions in this space. Accordingly, the team seeks a Fellow to lead the development of this portfolio of work.
The CJ Economic Policy and Innovation Fellow can be based in any of Arnold Ventures’ three offices: Houston, New York City, or Washington D.C., and reports to the Vice President of Criminal Justice Policy.
Core Responsibilities
- Drive strategy development and execution in partnership with the Vice President of Policy, the Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice, and Arnold Ventures’ Board of Directors
- Conduct research and analysis to inform strategy and project development; analyze policy developments and their impact; operationalize regulatory and legislative frameworks; engage key policymakers and provide technical assistance
- Develop and manage relationships with new and existing grantees, key stakeholders, and experts; deepen the grantee pipeline
- Identify and develop charitable investment and grant recommendations for AV’s Board of Directors
- Oversee charitable investments, grants and partnerships, and draw lessons from them to inform strategy and future projects
- Collaborate with the CJ Research, Advocacy, and Communications teams, to ensure the policy team’s goals are advanced in states and nationally
- Collaborate with other AV teams to explore and develop cross-cutting opportunities
- Manage consultant relationships
- Other duties to support the team’s work, as needed
Term
The CJ Economic Policy and Innovation Fellow will be in a regular, full-time position and eligible to participate in Arnold Ventures’ benefits plan. We anticipate that the CJ Economic Policy and Innovation Fellow will be appointed for a two-year fixed term.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in economics, public policy, business or another relevant field
- 7 years of relevant work experience in economic policy, state or local public finance, venture capital or private equity, consulting, or a similar role
- Interest in applying economic insights about incentives and market forces to the criminal justice system
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, drive progress, and deliver outcomes through creative, solution-driven problem solving
- Thrives in uncertain environments, quickly adapts, and confidently handles ambiguity
- Clear alignment to the mission and goals of both AV and the CJ team with a relentless drive to contribute toward their success and make a meaningful impact through this body of work
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to craft concrete solutions and communicate those solutions both to content experts and to diverse, nontechnical audiences
The salary range for this position will be $145,000-$200,000.
Applications will be received until this position is filled.
