Communications Associate- Economic Center; EGC)

Department:
Economics - Growth Center

27 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut

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For more than sixty years, the Economic Growth Center (EGC) at Yale University has been one of the world's premier centers for research in development economics. EGC's faculty affiliates have shaped how economists, governments, and international institutions understand growth and poverty in low- and middle-income countries. Together with Inclusion Economics at Yale University (YIE), EGC works at the frontier of questions that will define the next generation of global development.

The Economic Growth Center (EGC) and Inclusion Economics at Yale University (YIE) seek a Communications Associate to advance strategic communications that bring policy-relevant research to the audiences positioned to act on it: policymakers, funders, journalists, external research colleagues, and the Yale campus community.

The ideal candidate has a solid base of skills in communications and project management, alongside knowledge and/or training in development economics.

Key responsibilities include:

website management; project management of communications outputs; supporting design for social media, policy briefs, newsletters, and presentations; coordinating communications and other logistics helping deliver events; and facilitating the efficient utilization of systems for engagement tracking, contact management and collaborative project management. A background in economics, international development, or a related field such as global affairs or policy is a distinct asset.

For candidates on the higher end of the specified education/experience preferred, we would consider the title “Senior Communications Associate.”

Below we list all the activities this job supports. We don’t expect candidates to have experience in all of these areas, but it is important to demonstrate a capacity to learn them and to be interested in our work.

• Manage and update website content to showcase new development economics research – working papers, publications, policy briefs, and study findings.
• Build and redesign webpages across existing platforms to support new studies, publications, events and personnel.
• Draft, edit, and publish social media content, including through affiliated organizations, that highlights our research on growth, poverty, and inclusion and its policy and real-world relevance in low- and middle-income countries, coordinating with team members on content input.
• Edit short videos of events and interviews for the website and social media.
• Manage social media feeds across platforms (currently Linked In, Bluesky, and Facebook), including tracking and reporting metrics.
• Manage mailing lists and newsletters reaching researcher, policy, and funder audiences.
• With input and guidance from research and communications teams, develop and design online and print communications materials, brochures, presentations, newsletters, annual reports, and other collateral and presentation materials; make artistic layouts independently under general supervision and within brand guidelines; create and maintain electronic library of photos, data visualizations and other communications-related elements and templates.
• Support the organization of in-person, hybrid, and online events and conferences – including flagship convenings that are major…