Education Futures Lab Associate

NOTE: This is a two-year term position with a set end date. The role is designed as a fixed-term opportunity and is not intended to extend beyond the two-year period.

POSITION SUMMARY:
The American Council on Education (ACE) is the major coordinating body for the nation's colleges and universities. ACE is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practices. With a diverse base of member institutions, ACE represents nearly 1,700 college and university presidents and executives, serving as the only major higher education association to represent all types of U.S. accredited, degree-granting institutions. ACE's mission includes serving 280 minority serving institutions, 25,000 higher education professionals, and 7.7 million students enrolled in colleges and universities. ACE membership extends to all 50 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, and 21 other countries.

The Education Futures Lab Associate program is designed to provide individuals with an opportunity to gain real-world experience harnessing the power of research and data - and co-designing solutions for and with the postsecondary sector. By being a part of a leading national higher education association, you will have opportunities to inform campus executives and leaders of higher education associations and organizations about emerging higher education issues and influence public policy and institutional practice. By the end of the two-year term, you will have opportunities to explore potential career paths as well as to broaden their knowledge in key areas such as higher education leadership, translating research to practice, data-informed decision making, and others.

Essential Job Duties or Tasks:
As an Associate, you will work under the direction of various project leaders in EF Lab in support of our core activities, which consist of:
Explore & Discover: We scan for and anticipate challenges, opportunities, ideas, and solutions.
Design & Incubate: We create spaces for emerging ideas and solutions to become real and tested.
Scale & Accelerate: We catalyze and accelerate transformational changes by informing and shaping public discourse.
Through these activities, we produce various experiences and deliverables for internal & external audiences, including but not limited to internal briefings on emerging issues, thought leadership convenings, workshops and other learning experiences for institutional leaders, written reports, toolkits, data resources, and webinars.
Typically, you will be assigned to execute tasks associated with larger projects, including but not limited to background research, data analysis/visualization, qualitative/quantitative data collections, preparation of pre-/post-convening materials, and drafting of written materials (e.g., internal memos, talking points, briefs, and reports).

In addition, as directed, you will have opportunities to engage and partner with colleagues across the Council (e.g., Carnegie Classifications System team, Government Relations, ACE Connect, and Learning Evaluations, etc.). As a full-time contributor, you will also be expected to fully participate in various departmental, division, and council-wide meetings and activities.
In the first year, you will also be paired with a mentor who serves on ACE's Cabinet, which consists of assistant vice presidents and other senior-level leaders at the Council.

Education/Experience/Specialized Knowledge and Competency Requirements:

• Self-motivated with the ability to multi-task competing projects and priorities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and propensity to thrive in a team environment
• Skillsets relevant to one or more areas of EF Lab's core activities.
• Eagerness to build your expertise around current and emerging issues in higher
  

Working Conditions/Physical Effort:
This is an onsite role based in Washington DC, with the option to work remotely one day per week in coordination with the team. 35 hours per week.

Targeted salary: $58,600.00