Research Associate

Conservative public affairs firm serving leading right-of-center political committees, advocacy groups, and corporate clients seeks entry-level and mid-career candidates for its growing team. Our company works with the most prominent corporate and political clients in Washington to solve sensitive and high-stakes challenges using cutting-edge open source intelligence and digital forensics techniques, presenting findings in clear, well-written, and actionable research products on tight deadlines that inform high-level decision-making by principals and c-suite executives.

Candidates must be self-driven, team players, and have a strong work ethic. Experience in conservative political research, political campaigns, public affairs, or on Capitol Hill are a plus. Candidates with experience finding and analyzing public records and open source intelligence are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

• Compiling and writing thorough research backgrounders on policy issues and political candidates and organizations, presenting the information in a detailed and reader-friendly manner
• Preparing messaging documents and whitepapers to be used in advocacy campaigns, public-facing communications efforts, and the development of government affairs and litigation strategy
• Writing sourced and accurate talking points, maintaining data sets, and producing other content as needed
• Generating opposition research on Democratic candidates and officials
• Researching a variety of public records, including campaign finance filings, legal and court records, personal financial disclosures, business records, tax filings, and legislative records
• Reviewing other open-source information, including social media, news reports, live events, and publicly posted audio and video
• Hybrid work policy: employees are expected to be in-office Tuesdays through Thursdays and may work remotely Mondays and Fridays.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Desire or proven experience working to further conservative causes, candidates, and policies
• Candidates should be critical thinkers, hard workers, problem solvers, and good writers
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to gather, analyze, and concisely summarize research into written content for both internal and external use
• Any experience with research tools and databases such as LexisNexis, TV Eyes, legislative records, campaign finance filings, business records, legal and court records, or economic data is a plus
• Strong candidates will have experience with a political campaign, issue advocacy group, media organization, think tank, member of Congress, public affairs firm, or similar politically involved organization

Salary is commensurate with experience. We offer generous benefits, including health, dental, and vision. Our office is hybrid-remote: in-person attendance is optional on Mondays and Fridays and required Tuesday through Thursday. The office is Metro-accessible.

Interested candidates should send a resume and brief note of introduction to publicaffairsconservative@gmail.com.