Current Job Opportunities


Senior Vice President of Development

Location: Austin preferred/flexible

Type: Full-time

The Senior Vice President of Development is responsible for building, executing, and scaling a comprehensive, year-round fundraising and donor engagement strategy to fuel long-term growth and policy impact. This role owns the development function end-to-end—strategy, execution, and results, and serves as a core member of the organization’s senior leadership team.


Digital Media Associate

Location: Austin, Texas

Type: Full-time

The Digital Media Associate will support the production and promotion of Cicero’s research across digital platforms. This individual will work closely with the research, communications, and development teams to amplify Cicero’s ideas through written, visual, and multimedia content.


Research Associate

Location: Austin, Texas

Type: Full-time

The Cicero Institute is hiring a Research Associate to support the development of state-focused policy reforms. Working closely with senior staff, you will deliver rigorous research and polished written products—independently and as part of teams—to execute ambitious, high-quality products on tight timelines. The Research Associate (RA) role is an entry-level position, but it is also a front-line opportunity for a smart, hardworking, self-driven individual who shares our values and wants to improve government for the prosperity of all.


Summer Research Assistants

Location: Austin, Texas

Type: Intern

The Cicero Institute seeks ambitious, talented part-time Summer Research Assistants to experience practical policy development for a summer in Austin, Texas. Summer RAs will identify a system-level social and/or public problem related to Cicero’s issue areas and develop a policy response. They will achieve this while immersed in our entrepreneurial culture in tandem with other projects that advance Cicero’s goals. RAs will gain professional development under the mentorship of our experienced policy team. All are encouraged to apply: philosophers and data scientists, writers and engineers, welders and policy students.

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