Summer 2025 Research Trainee

Job title:

Summer 2025 Research Trainee

Company

The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Job description

Reports To: Program Coordinator, Alliance for Securing DemocracyJob Summary:The Alliance for Securing Democracy is seeking trainees for Summer 2025 to assist with research on foreign state-sponsored actors’ efforts to undermine democracies. Trainees will be responsible for tracking and compiling research on developments in this area, including real-time events and policy debates in the United States and Europe.Trainees will benefit from exposure to GMF’s network, and will gain valuable research, analysis, and writing experiences. Traineeships will be a mix of in-person and remote work, and trainees must maintain an address in the Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland area.Trainees are paid $17.50 an hour and are offered an ideal opportunity to acquire substantive professional experience for those interested in a career in public policy or international affairs.Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Compiling research on malign actors’ attempts to undermine democracies, including in-depth looks at the range of tools used by state actors like Russia, China, and Iran.
• Tracking and cataloguing foreign state-sponsored use of information manipulation, cyber operations, malign finance, economic coercion, civil society subversion, and kinetic operations across the transatlantic community.
• Contributing to ASD’s research and tracking of foreign state-sponsored attempts to interfere in upcoming elections across the transatlantic community.
• Providing research and writing support for ASD fellows and products, including daily news clips.
• Producing summaries of hearings and events relevant to ASD’s work.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Excellent analytic and writing skills and previous research experience.
• Familiarity with and interest in autocratic efforts to undermine democratic institutions, alliances, and societies.
• Fluency in English is required; European language(s) a plus
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• Comfortable multi-tasking and working independently.
• Graduate or undergraduate student pursuing a degree in International Relations, Regional Studies, Security Studies, or a related field-or a recent graduate of such a program.
• Previous experience in a think tank, foundation, NGO, government body, media outlet, or similar organization preferred.
• Strong interest in democracy, national security, information manipulation, US-Russia and US-China relations.

Start and Length of Traineeship:

• Preferred start and end: late May-August 2025
• Preferred time commitment: 20-30 hours per week

, Monday-Friday between 9:00 am to 5:00 pm ESTGMF is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Expected salary

$17.5 per hour

Location

Washington DC

Job date

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:04:04 GMT

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