MIT COMMUNITY INNOVATORS LAB IS SEEKING A POLICY MANAGER

Position: Policy Manager, Just Urban Economies
Job Title: SRS Tech Staff (Full-time) 
Reports To: Director, Just Urban Economies
Employment Type: Full-Time 
MITCoLab supports the development and use of knowledge from excluded communities to deepen civic engagement, improve community practice, inform policy, mobilize community assets, and generate shared wealth.
CoLab’s domestic work is anchored through its Just Urban Economies (JUE) Program. JUE engages local stakeholders from a multitude of sectors to position communities to govern their own regional economies, and build shared wealth in BIPOC communities at scale. Using a movement-building framework, the JUE team works to leverage resources at MIT to advance institutional leadership development, community-led participatory planning, and policy-making, and convene cross-sector tables in key geographies across the United States. 
A major cornerstone of CoLab’s domestic work has been the Mel King Community Fellows Program (MKCF) — dedicated to the legacy of Mel King, an active champion of cities and the communities they comprise. Historically, the MKCF program convened leaders working on developing economic democracy and self-determination while creating the “holding space” for them to strategize, prototype, and coordinate with each other. The program is currently focused on building shared wealth and ownership at scale among BIPOC communities through the transformation of the long-term care industry sector. Read more about the Just Urban Economies Program here.
The Job Description
MIT Community Innovators Lab is seeking a Policy Manager with strong analytical and communications skills with expertise in healthcare policy.   In deep partnership with our Just Urban Economies Director, the Policy Manager will have strong problem-solving skills, be able to conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis; and have superior writing skills to communicate important policy issues to stakeholders. The Policy Manager will be able to translate policy developments and impacts of trends in the long-term care sector into powerful strategic advice and guidance through policy memos or other written research summaries that describe the current state of knowledge in the sector and “translate” CoLab’s research into lessons for the MKCF and other key stakeholders. At times, the Policy Manager may need to represent the Director on workgroups or special projects; interact with representatives from stakeholders from local, state, and federal agencies, legislators, healthcare organizations, and the general public.