Working closely with the director and members of the postsecondary education and workforce development team, the senior policy analyst will play a significant role in shaping and moving the team’s advocacy agenda for workforce development. 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead federal and state advocacy strategies to increase access to workforce development and education and training opportunities. These include federal programs authorized under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA); pre-apprenticeships and apprenticeships; and career pathways to promote greater access for low-income people, youth and adults of color, immigrants, and under-represented students; 
• Provide policy analysis and technical assistance to a variety of audiences through legislation and policy recommendations, presentations, on-site assistance, publications, commentaries, e-mails, and teleconferences; 
• Speak to a wide variety of audiences, including national, state ,and local policymakers and practitioners on substantive areas of work;
• Lead and support policy convenings, roundtables, meetings, and webinars with key stakeholders, including state leaders and agency officials, policy experts, advocacy partners, workforce development boards, labor and community-based organizations, adult education providers, and higher education leaders;
• Write high-quality reports, issue briefs, and commentaries in substantive areas of work;
• Incorporate an anti-poverty, racial-equity lens into all national, state, and local policy work; research and written products; technical assistance; advocacy strategies; and partnerships with key stakeholders;
• Play a role in managing funder relationships, including writing grant reports and proposals;
• Play a leadership role in the postsecondary education and workforce development team as well as CLASP-wide activities (e.g., racial equity team, state technical assistance team); and
• Build and maintain relationships with diverse partners.

The policy analyst will work closely with Postsecondary Education and Workforce Development Team to advance policies that improve the lives of students and workers with low incomes. 
Duties will include but are not limited to:

• Analyze federal, state, and local policies that increase access to postsecondary education, adult education, workforce development, and education and training opportunities, such as federal programs authorized under the Higher Education Act (HEA) and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA); 
• Track and analyze legislative and regulatory developments at federal and state levels;
• Collaborate with team members and advocacy partners to develop policy advocacy strategies that promote racial equity for people with low incomes, youth and adults of color, immigrant youth and adults, and justice-impacted individuals;  
• Provide policy analysis and technical assistance on substantive issues to a wide variety of audiences through policy recommendations, presentations, on-site assistance, publications, commentaries, written materials, e-mails, and teleconferences; 
• Speak to a wide variety of audiences, including national, state, and local policymakers and practitioners on substantive areas of work;
• Support policy convenings, roundtables, meetings, and webinars with key stakeholders and advocacy partners;
• Write high-quality reports, fact sheets, issue briefs, and commentaries across areas of work;
• Provide research support to the director and senior policy analysts; and
• Build and maintain relationships with diverse partners.

The Education Trust seeks a Higher Education Policy Analyst (s) to work closely with the Director of Higher Education Policy. Reporting to the Director of Higher Education Policy, the analyst will support an ambitious effort to advance the equity agenda in federal, state, and institutional policies. Core responsibilities include federal and state policy analysis, working with partners and experts on issues like college affordability and student success, and communicating policy recommendations through various channels. To this end, the analyst will work closely with the higher education research and practice teams, the P-12 policy and practice division, and the Partnership and Engagement division.

Unaccompanied Children Program (UCP) is a national network that provides legal information and pro bono assistance to unaccompanied children in removal proceedings, both in, and released from, federal custody. The program is responsible for managing this network, including monitoring compliance with subcontracts, determining and promoting best practices, and providing technical assistance to subcontractors. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding team comprised of passionate, bright, and diverse individuals working on immigration reform and protecting disenfranchised individuals. 

Vera’s Center on Immigration and Justice seeks a Senior Program Associate to work in UCP. We are looking for an individual who would feel at home developing and maintaining relationships with project partners. Someone who will be able to continuously identify promising practices among subcontractors and devise ways to disseminate information about such practices to encourage implementation elsewhere. The examples of core responsibilities provided below are illustrative and other responsibilities may be added over time.

The CSG Justice Center will hire a legal fellow to conduct state-level policy research on access to post-secondary education (including occupational training leading to a credential) for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in all 50 states. The research methods will include analyses of databases, such as the National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction (NICCC), LexisNexis and State Net; digital scans of policies, publications, and funding streams; and surveys and interviews.  The legal fellows will work as part of a team to inventory policies, synthesize  and track information, and identify trends and new areas of research.
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A JD is required, although bar admission is not necessary.

​Arnold Ventures seeks an intern to support the team in advancing the philanthropy's policy priorities on higher education issues, in particular by supporting grantmaking related to higher policy research and evidence-based practices. Arnold Ventures' higher education work seeks to increase the quality and lower the cost of postsecondary education, with a particular emphasis on improving outcomes for disadvantaged students. We focus on (1) strengthening federal and state policies that incentivize greater transparency, accountability, and quality assurance, and (2) identifying and scaling evidence-based practices that show promise at improving outcomes.

Arnold Ventures' Criminal Justice initiative aims to advance community safety and the values of fairness, effectiveness, and racial justice. We fund innovative work in five domains: Policing, Pretrial Justice, Community Supervision, Prisons, and Reintegration. The Initiative works with teams of 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.

We are seeking a Director of Litigation Strategy to lead the development and execution of a strategy that invests in strategic litigation in pursuit of criminal justice reform. This individual will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, and pursuing new, high-leverage philanthropic opportunities in criminal justice litigation and managing current investments. The Director will work closely with the leadership of the criminal justice team to build a portfolio of litigation investments across all domains. The Director will report to the Vice President of Criminal Justice overseeing strategic litigation. (Note: The Director will work solely as part of the programmatic Criminal Justice Initiative team and is not part of Arnold Ventures' in-house legal team responsible for the philanthropy's operational legal matters, compliance, and corporate responsibility.)

​Arnold Ventures' Criminal Justice initiative aims to advance community safety and the values of fairness, effectiveness, and racial justice. We fund innovative work in five domains: Policing, Pretrial Justice, Community Supervision, Prisons, and Reintegration. The Initiative works with teams of 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.

We are seeking a Criminal Justice Manager to help research, analyze, develop, and manage high-impact projects in the field of criminal justice, with a focus on reforming community supervision, prison policies, sentencing, release decisions, fines and fees, reentry, and reintegration. The Criminal Justice Manager will report to the Director of Criminal Justice overseeing this portfolio.

​Arnold Ventures' Criminal Justice initiative aims to advance community safety and the values of fairness, effectiveness, and racial justice. We fund innovative work in five domains: Policing, Pretrial Justice, Community Supervision, Prisons, and Reintegration. The Initiative works with teams of 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.

We are seeking a Director of Criminal Justice Research to help establish our research agenda, lead many of our most significant research projects, and provide strategic research-related advice across the Initiative. This individual will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, and pursuing new, high-leverage philanthropic opportunities and managing current investments. The Director of Criminal Justice Research will report to the Vice President of Criminal Justice overseeing the corrections portfolio and, working closely with the Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice and staff across the Initiative and organization, will be instrumental in building a portfolio focused on reforming community supervision, prisons, sentencing, release decisions, fines and fees, reentry, and reintegration.

​Arnold Ventures' Policy and Advocacy team works to strengthen partnerships with federal, state, and local governments and helps programmatic teams bring the findings of new research into the policy-making process. The Policy and Advocacy team is responsible for developing and executing advocacy campaigns around the Foundation’s policy priorities; building, resourcing, and maintaining strategic alliances with engaged and influential state and national advocacy partners and stakeholders; and managing relationships with key federal, state, and local policymaking officials. LJAF seeks a Director to help build its advocacy capacity and advance the Foundation’s policy priorities on priority health care issues. LJAF’s health advocacy work centers on lowering health care spending while maintaining access to needed, high-quality care and supporting the continued reform of the health care delivery system. Areas of particular interest are improving the access and affordability of drugs, hospital services, and physician services; eliminating low-value care; managing complex patients; and promoting access to public health, such as reproductive health, planning and choice.

​Arnold Ventures' Criminal Justice initiative aims to advance community safety and the values of fairness, effectiveness, and racial justice. We fund innovative work in five domains: Policing, Pretrial Justice, Community Supervision, Prisons, and Reintegration. The Initiative works with teams of 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.

We are seeking a Criminal Justice Research Manager to help research, analyze, develop, and manage high-impact projects in the field of criminal justice, with a focus on violence reduction, community safety, alternatives to arrest, and connections to care. This individual will help develop and implement the policing research agenda, manage research grants, and provide strategic research-related advice to the policing team. The Criminal Justice Research Manager will report to the Director of Criminal Justice Research for this domain.

​The Center on Sentencing and Corrections seeks a Senior Program Associate to support its work. You will be a part of the team focused on reducing the use of segregation/restrictive housing/solitary confinement. This position reports to the project director for the current Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative. Initially you will be assigned one agency to focus on, with an opportunity to expand to other systems as the project grows and evolves.

The project: Since the 1980s, U.S. prisons and jails have increasingly relied on the use of segregation—also known as restrictive housing, isolation, or solitary confinement—to maintain order and manage their populations. The use of segregation remains a mainstay of prison management and control despite evidence pointing to potentially devastating psychological effects, the increased expense of housing people in restrictive housing, and the lack of evidence that the use of restrictive housing leads to greater institutional safety or public safety of the communities to which those who have been held under such severe conditions will return. That said, the tide is turning and corrections officials across the country are motivated to reform this practice.

Vera has partnered with corrections agencies since 2010 to safely reduce their reliance on segregation and develop alternative strategies. Since that time, we have worked in 16 jurisdictions across the country, helping systems achieve segregation population reductions as high as 85 percent. Vera is moving into a new phase of the work, which will involve working intensively in states to implement reforms that will drive down the use of solitary even further than has already been achieved, engage external stakeholders to support reform efforts, and disseminate new promising practices being implemented in Vera’s jurisdictions and in other systems to the field. 

IHEP is seeking a Research Analyst for its applied research team. S/he will provide assistance and support on research projects that further the practical application of promising practices that drive postsecondary attainment, particularly for underserved students, such as adult learners and incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals. S/he will assist with the preparation of research reports, publications, presentations, learning experiences, and grant documents.