Jobs at Texas Public Policy Foundation

Develops, cultivates, solicits, and stewards major donors and prospects in the Houston area. Responsibilities include managing a donor portfolio, researching prospects, creating cultivation strategies, supporting donor events, making presentations, documenting donor interactions, and providing post-gift stewardship. Requires strong communication, storytelling, relationship-building, organizational, and project management skills, along with a commitment to free-market principles. Approximately 20% travel is anticipated.

Conduct original quantitative and qualitative public policy research, produce publication-quality scholarship, educate lawmakers and the public, provide formal testimony, and represent the Foundation in media.

Interns support a Texas public policy foundation across policy, development, communications, film and media, journalism, and operations. Responsibilities may include policy research, writing, fundraising support, donor research, grant writing, media production, journalism, social media, analytics, event coordination, office administration, data entry, vendor coordination, and special projects. Interns participate in educational discussions and receive mentorship while developing research, writing, communication, and organizational skills.

Law clerks work with a public interest litigation team on active administrative, district, and appellate court matters, including litigation, appellate briefs, and amicus briefs. Candidates must be current law students or recent graduates with strong research, writing, interpersonal, and project-management skills. The role is full- or part-time and provides a stipend upon completion, with possible academic credit.