Government Works Weekly #56

Jobs, Events, and Zohran FTW

Nov 07, 2025

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Still traveling this week, putting this together quickly on a bumpy train, apologies for any typos.

EYES & EARS – reading, podcasts, and other good stuff

Don’t have much this week since I am on the road, but I have to take a moment to celebrate the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral race. Even though I don’t live in New York, I have been posting early and often about him (and generally losing subscribers when I do) because I really hope he can carry forward on his mission to have a government that makes lives better.

Here, from his victory speech that was reprinted in Jacobin (emphasis added):

New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change. A mandate for a new kind of politics. A mandate for a city we can afford. And a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that.
On January 1, I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City. And that is because of you. So before I say anything else, I must say this: thank you. Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who refuse to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past…
This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.
For years, those in city hall have only helped those who can help them. But on January 1, we will usher in a city government that helps everyone…

APPLY YOURSELF

Speaking of, it looks like his new administration is accepting applications. If you are in the NYC area, this would be a great way to get hands on and help government work. Apply here: https://www.transition2025.com/apply

We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve

COMMS + OPS

Media Relations Director, Democracy Forward [D.C.]
Senior Officer, Leadership Engagement and Communication, Gates Foundation [Seattle or D.C.]
Press Officer, State Advocacy Communications, Planned Parenthood
Director of Communications, Mothers Out Front
Editor, The Argument [D.C.]
Senior Editor, Open Society [NYC / D.C. / CDMX]
Playbook Editor, Politico

ACADEMIA

Managing Director, Stanford Center for Just Environmental Futures
Director and Stauffer-Dunning Chair, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University [Kingston, ON]
Energy Policy Professor, Vermont Law and Graduate School [South Royalton, VT]
Research Program Lead, Future of Peace, The Fletcher School [Somerville, MA]
Sr. Program Manager, EdRedesign Lab [Harvard Graduate School of Education]
Multiple Positions, Health Policy Impact Lab, Tobin Center [Yale]
Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science, Department of Politics and International Relations [Oxford]
Research Officer in Inequality and Mobility, International Inequalities Institute [LSE]

TECH + DATA + DESIGN

Director of Data Science & Engineering, ActBlue [Remote]
Vice President of US Policy and Evangelism, Code[.]Org [Remote or Seattle, WA]
Deputy Director, Data Analytics & OSINT, SPLC
Multiple Positions, GovTech Barbados
Product Designer -and- Product Marketing Manager, One Project

INTERNATIONAL

Senior Research Officer/Coordinator, International Budget Partnership [deadline 10 Nov.]
Research Analyst - Global Education & Child Well-being, Center for Global Development [D.C.]
Research and Programme Officer, European Programme for Democracy [deadline 16 Nov.]
Head of Development & Partnerships, Transparency International [deadline 17 Nov.]

INTERNSHIPS + FELLOWSHIPS

New York State Science Policy Fellowship, Rockefeller Institute of Government
Fellow, The Argument [D.C.]
Summer Associate Program, Policy Research, RAND
2026 Fellowship, Govern for America [deadline 8 Dec.]
US Policy Internship, Summer 2026, Future of Privacy Forum [D.C.]
Winter/Spring 2026 Internships, TechCongress [D.C. area]

CONSULTANCIES + OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Call for Pitches (e.g., The future of crisis-afflicted political, economic and other systems– democracy, capitalism, etc.), Noema Magazine
Request for Proposals (RFP): Contractor Support, Lawyers Defending American Democracy
Request for Quotations: Cross-platform content dissemination Expert Consultancy in the project Disrupt Disinfo Networks, Democracy Reporting International

And lots more opportunities in the last newsletter: Government Works Weekly #55.

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