What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer 2025 Research Trainee position at The German Marshall Fund of the United States?
Reports To: Program Coordinator, Alliance for Securing Democracy
Job 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 GMFs 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 ASDs 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 ASDs 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 fieldor 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] , MondayFriday between 9:00 am to 5:00 pm EST
GMF is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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