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Research & Strategy Associate - Policy Innovation Hub

Join the Policy Innovation Hub as our Research & Strategy Associate! This is an ideal position for someone looking to gain professional experience with building institutional partnerships and programming that will foster, highlight, and enhance policy- and community-engaged scholarship. The role will be involved with strategic planning and execution of workshops and events, as well as envisioning and realizing a new center as it emerges. This position will entail collaborating and communicating across multiple centers in the Policy School and external partners; writing and research on the work of these various stakeholders; and event planning.

  • Location:

    Boston

  • Semester:

    Fall 2026

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  • Project Title

    Policy Innovation Hub

  • Faculty / Project Lead

    Dan O'Brien

  • Project Description

    The Policy Innovation Hub leverages people-relevant scholarship to address pressing policy challenges from the local to the global. To do so, we foster partnership and shared learning among students, faculty, centers, communi-ties, and decision makers, ensuring that policy innovation is grounded in real-world needs and connected to public impact. The Policy Innovation Hub (PIH) serves as connective infrastructure across six research centers: the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI), the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures (CIAWC), the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy, the Global Action for Policy Initiative (GAP), the Plastics Center, and the Social Impact Lab (SIL). PIH is officially launching this fall.

  • Qualifications Necessary

    Applicants should have excellent oral and written communication skills and should be comfortable operating in an interdisciplinary space with diverse stakeholders. A sense of autonomy and initiative for establishing and pursuing directions for the PIH will be valuable.

  • Hours per Week

    20 Hour Position