Government Works Weekly #34
Jobs, Events, Counting the Days, and Recognizing Public Servants
Welcome to your weekly roundup of opportunities, events, and information about how government works—and how government can work better—to improve the lives of individuals, families, and communities.
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APPLY YOURSELF – jobs, internships, and other ways to get involved
PROGRAM + POLICY
Managing Director, Effective Institutions Project [Remote / deadline 4 May]
(Senior) Program Officer, Effective Institutions Project [Remote / DC or SF preferred / deadline 4 May]
Multiple Positions, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities [D.C.]
Multiple Positions, Democracy Forward [D.C.]
Director of Grantmaking Analytics and Operations, Hewlett Foundation [Hybrid / Menlo Park, CA]
Associate, Program Officer, Spencer Foundation [Chicago]
Policy Analyst, Child Care and Early Education & Immigration, Center for Law and Social Policy [D.C.]
Press Assistant, Civic Nation [Remote]
Social Media Assistant, Civic Nation [Remote]
Communications Assistant, Building State Capability [Harvard Kennedy School]
Senior Director of Partnerships, Democracy Alliance [Multiple Locations]
Senior Policy Analyst, Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator [Nashville, TN]
Research Program Manager, Project on Human Security and Prosperity, Hoover Institution [Stanford]
Government Relations and Public Policy Senior Assistant, Association of American Universities [D.C.]
Senior Economic Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank [D.C.]
STATE + LOCAL
Associate, State Fiscal Policy, Pew Charitable Trusts [D.C.]
Lead Researcher, Alaska, Sightline Institute [Anchorage Remote]
Contract: Alaska Campaign Organizer, United Today, Stronger Tomorrow [AK]
Chief of Staff, CED Loan Fund, Community Economic Defense Project [Hybrid Denver]
Development Specialist, National Conference of State Legislatures [Denver / deadline 9 May]
Legislative Attorney, South Dakota Legislative Research Council [SD]
President, Civic Council of Greater Kansas City [KC Metro]
Managing Director, Rural Teacher Corps, Rural School Collaborative [Hybrid Columbus, OH]
Civic and Community Engagement Specialist (Community Program Specialist), University of Maryland [Baltimore]
Junior Analyst, Virginia Department of Planning and Budget [deadline 5 May]
Director of Connecticut Policy Collaborative, The Tobin Center for Economic Policy [Yale]
Research Analyst for State and Local Government Initiative, Hoover Institution [Stanford]
Education Policy Analyst, California School Boards Association [West Sacramento]
Executive Director, Public Ethics Commission, City of Oakland [CA]
Policy Analyst, Office Of The Mayor [Chicago]
Elections Consultancies: Montana, Colorado, Nevada, South Carolina, and more, Carter Center [Various]
LEGAL FOCUS
Operations Assistant, Campaign Legal Center [D.C.]
Senior Legal Counsel, Litigation, Campaign Legal Center [D.C.]
Sr. Staff Attorney, Civic Space, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights [Hybrid D.C.]
Multiple Positions, Brennan Center for Justice [NY]
Multiple Positions, American Oversight [Remote]
Sr. Counsel for Litigation and Voting Rights, DNC [D.C.]
Litigation Attorney (Contract), Protect Democracy [Remote]
Senior Legal Manager, Governance and Accountability Programme, International Lawyers Project [preference for London]
TECH + DATA + DESIGN
Short-term Opportunity: Senior QA Engineer, Colorado Digital Service [Remote]
Managing Director of Tech, MoveOn [Remote U.S.]
Deputy Data Director, Indivisible [Remote U.S.]
Policy Analyst, Americans for Responsible Innovation [D.C.]
Senior Survey Scientist, Murmuration [Remote]
IT Specialist, Democracy Forward [D.C.]
Product Manager, Propel [Brooklyn or Remote]
AI and Emerging Tech Manager, Federation of American Scientists [D.C.]
Product Manager, AI for Impact Program, The Burnes Center for Social Change [Northeastern University]
EUROPE FOCUS
Communications and Events Team, European Policy Centre [deadline 9 May]
European Advocacy & Research Officer / European Policy Forum Coordinator, Humanists International [Belgium, home based / deadline 12 May]
Head of Programme, EU and International Politics, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung [Brussels / deadline 4 May]
Policy Officer, European Coalition for Corporate Justice [Brussels / deadline 15 May]
ABA CGP EU Proposal Consultancy, Rule of Law Initiative, American Bar Association [Remote]
IIAS Assistant Program Manager, International Institute of Administrative Sciences [Brussels / deadline 19 May]
Secretary (2 posts) in the Political Section, European Union Delegation to the United States of America [deadline 6 May]
Call for consultants: AidWatch Report 2025, CONCORD [deadline 4 May]
Senior Project Officer (Northern Ireland), Involve [deadline 20 May]
INTERNSHIPS + FELLOWSHIPS
Digital Media and Traditional Press Intern, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform [Democrats]
Narrative Research Intern, Landscape & Assessment, Narrative Initiative [Remote]
Internship/Externship - Various Programs, National Conference of State Legislatures [Denver / deadline 16 May]
At-Large Fellows Program, Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress [deadline 1 July]
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Open Call for Submissions: Spring 2025 Spotlights, Digital Service Network [deadline 31 May]
Request for Proposals: Share Your Ideas for #NCoC2025 – Building Civic Resilience, National Conference on Citizenship [deadline 14 May]
Have you been impacted by DOGE cuts? Share your story., Center for American Progress
Cradle-to-Career Advisory Board Application, California Cradle-to-Career (C2C) Data System [deadline 19 May 2025]
Reporters in Residence Program, Omidyar Network [deadline 30 May]
And lots more opportunities in the last newsletter too: Government Works Weekly #33.
UPCOMING EVENTS – webinars, conferences, and other human things
WEEK OF 4-10 MAY: Public Service Recognition Week
5 MAY: Stealing From Our Children: Trump’s Dismantling of Head Start Harms Children and Families [CAP]
5 MAY: TAI debt call with #PublicDebtisPublic [TAI]
5 MAY: Addressing Grand Challenges in Public Administration: State and Local Innovation [Schaefer Center for Public Policy]
6 MAY: Who Is Government? A Conversation with Author Casey Cep [Partnership for Public Service]
6 MAY: The future of public service [Brookings]
6 MAY: Who Moved My Government? Navigating Change in Public Administration [National Academy of Public Administration]
6 MAY: Dear ChatGPT, what is Democracy? [Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance]
6-7 MAY: Data on Purpose 2025: “Reimagining the Digital Future: Harnessing AI for Social Good” [SSIR]
7 MAY: Labor at the Polls: Understanding How Union Members Approached the 2024 Election [Ash Center]
7 MAY: Maternal Healthcare and Hospital Closures [Rockefeller Institute of Government]
7 MAY: Navigating Uncertainty - the US Funding Freeze and Its Impact on Global Civil Society [EU System for an Enabling Environment for Civil Society]
7 MAY: Governing Through Uncertainty: Using Data, Digital Tools, and Generative AI to Strengthen Public Service [InnovateUS]
8 MAY: Harnessing Digital Transformation for Good [Center for Global Development]
8 MAY: Supporting and expanding the K-12 STEM teacher pipeline [Brookings]
8 MAY: Driving responsive governance: Introducing the latest innovations from Go Vocal [Go Vocal]
8 MAY: Digital Sovereignty for people and the planet: how to get there? [UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose]
8 MAY: Webinar on Global Citizens’ Assemblies: new study and discussion [Democracy International + Democracy Without Borders]
8-9 MAY: Labor and the Crisis of Democracy: Working-Class Politics in an Age of Authoritarianism [CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies]
EYES & EARS – reading, podcasts, and other good stuff
NEW READS
Trump Doesn’t Want to Govern, Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, 26 April 2025.
Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy, Henry Farrell, Programmable Mutter, 1 May 2025.
Restoring Economic Democracy: Progressive Ideas for Stability and Prosperity, Roosevelt Institute, 29 Apr 2025.
Streaming services should step up to make C-SPAN great again, Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 28 April 2025.
Goodbye IRS Direct File, Hello Inefficiency, Merici Vinton, Federation for American Scientists, 16 April 2025.
The Trump Regime’s War on Working People: The First 100 Days, Michael Podhorzer, Weekend Reading, 28 April 2025.
The DOJ-in-Exile Takes Shape, Josh Marshall, TPM, 22 April 2025.
Meet the former feds organizing against purported DOGE ‘destroyers’, Natalie Alms, Nextgov/FCW, 30 April 2025.
Communicating about Democracy Under Threat, Clara Blustein Lindholm, Frameworks, 29 April 2025.
GOP balks at approving even a fraction of Musk’s DOGE cuts, Liz Goodwin and Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 2 May 2025.
NEW RESEARCH
Getting Your Foot In The Door: The Impact Of Public Sector Fellowships On Career Trajectories, Elizabeth Linos, Brenda Sciepura, and Alec Wall, The People Lab, Harvard Kennedy School, April 2025.
Moving from nudging to boosting: empowering behaviour change to address global challenges, Ralph Hertwig, Susan Michie, Robert West and Stephen Reicher, Behavioural Public Policy, 15 April 2025.
Research to Inform 2025 Reconciliation: Taxes, Safety Net, and Beyond, Urban Institute, 30 April 2025.
Research Radar: Using Machine Learning to Map State Capacity, Beth Simone Noveck, Reboot Democracy, 29 April 2025.
Governing with citizens: Embedding democratic innovations into societies, Nets4Dem, 22 April 2025.
Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations, Francesco Veri and Simon Niemeyer, European Political Science Review, 28 April 2025.
Institutional Pressure, Kevin Lewis, National Affairs, 25 April 2025.
NEW RESOURCES
Public Solutions Jobs, a website sponsored by the Working Group on Public Solutions R&D, the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University, Stanford Impact Labs, the California Policy Lab, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, the University of Chicago Education Lab, the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, Harvard Impact Labs, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL North America), the Massive Data Institute, and the Beeck Center.
Data 360: “The World Bank open data site is expanding to Data360, a newly curated collection of data, analytics, and tools to foster development.”
DOGE Tracker: From Musk Watch, shows just $12.6B in “Verifiable Canceled Funding” as of 2 May 2025.
Stand With Civil Society, an open letter campaign for “for support, solidarity and systems change from global civil society”. Take a look and consider signing.
State Legislative Effectiveness Scores (SLES), Center for Effective Lawmaking, 29 April 2025.
Why Political Science? The Science of Democracy, American Political Science Association.
NEW NUMBERS
What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too, Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 24 April 2025.
A Majority of Voters Think Elon Musk Should Resign or Be Removed Immediately as Head of DOGE, Data for Progress, 29 April 2025.
Voters See Trump’s Use of Power as Overreaching, Times/Siena Poll Finds, New York Times, 25 April 2025.
Trump’s Astonishing 100 Days, in 8 Charts, Irineo Cabreros and Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 29 April 2025.
White House budget calls for $163 billion in federal cuts next year, Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 1 May 2025.
Federal Employees Are Now Less Likely to Work from Home Than Private Sector Workers, Mike Konczal, Rortybomb, 2 May 2025.