Institute of Economic Affairs - London

🚨 The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is seeking a new Director of Communications. The successful applicant will join the IEA's senior leadership team, manage its communications department, and be responsible for promoting its work through traditional and digital media, events, and public affairs. First and foremost, this job requires a strong understanding of economics, policy, and the principles of classical liberalism. The IEA particularly welcomes applicants who combine a background in policy research with exceptional communication skills. 💼 Responsibilities: Develop and lead our communications, marketing, and brand strategy. Manage its communications team, currently consisting of a communications officer and a digital production manager. Write and distribute press releases promoting IEA research and responding to important news stories. Design and implement broader promotional efforts for IEA publications, conferences, and so on. Represent the IEA in print, digital, and broadcast media, including by writing op-eds and giving interviews. Build relationships with journalists and policymakers. Play a key role in designing the IEA's public and private events programme. Oversee and participate in the IEA's audio-visual output, including its weekly podcast and other videos. Lead the development of the IEA website, Substack, and social media presence. Advise the IEA's executive director and senior leadership team on communications matters. ✅ Qualifications: A successful applicant must have outstanding communication and presentational skills. In particular, they will be an exceptional writer, capable of distilling complex ideas into clear and succinct prose. They will have a very well developed understanding of contemporary policy debates, free market economics, and classical liberal principles. They must also be an effective manager and strategic thinker, able to develop junior staff and continuously improve the IEA's output and impact. Relevant professional experience is an advantage, as is an academic grounding in economics, political science, public policy, or a related field. However, we are more interested in ability than credentials and are happy to consider unconventional applicants. Find out more and apply ⤵ https://lnkd.in/efy4UaEC

⚠️ We should look towards "a society in which free enterprise, personal responsibility, and ultimately individual liberty is at the heart and soul of the party." Reem Ibrahim, IEA Acting Director of Communications, spoke at Conservative Party Conference about the expansion of the nanny state.

🤔 "Labour’s electoral base is heavily biased towards young and middle-aged voters. They don’t do well among the over 65-year-olds, and that’s unlikely to change, so that age group is probably an easier target for them, for fiscal savings." 📢 The IEA's Head of Political Economy, Kristian Niemietz, was quoted in @Telegraph. He commented on the need for Chancellor Rachel Reeves to delay senior prescription benefits from 60 to 65.👇

🤔 "It is good to hear the Governor raising the prospect of faster cuts in the future, but the reality is rates are too high now. With the full effects of past increases still coming through, the Bank risks falling further behind." 📉 Julian Jessop, the IEA Economics Fellow, was quoted in the Daily Express discussing Andrew Bailey's propositions of interest rate cuts.

💡 "'My criteria of success for an anti-obesity policy is if it [actually] leads to a fall in obesity." 📢 IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics, Chris Snowdon, was mentioned in the The Sunday Times commenting on current sugar taxes and their lack luster effects on obesity rates.

🤔 "In Britain, everywhere you look, through regulation and planning, we effectively ban investment." 📢 Sam Dumitriu Head of Policy at Britian Remade at the IEA's Going For Growth: The Abundance Agenda panel during the Conservative Party Conference. ⬇️ Full panel below! ⬇️ #CPC https://lnkd.in/eXEk7qPd

✍️ "[The IEA] looked at 196 studies in 100 countries over 60 years and drew the conclusion that rent controls do far more harm than good." 📢 The IEA was referenced by Miles Briggs in a Scottish Labour Party debate regarding the growing housing crisis.

⚠️ "'From 2021 to 2022, just over 63,000 people went from being economically inactive because they were studying to be economically inactive because they were long term sick." 👀 Our Reem Ibrahim, Acting Director of Communications, appeared on Talk TV yesterday to speak on increasing sick and mental health leave among young people in the wake of the pandemic.

🤔 Do you want to work at the UK's most influential free market think tank? Internships with the IEA are available all year round! If you'd like to join the general internship programme in the Winter then apply today! ⬇️

🚨Unions Resurgent? The Past, Present and Uncertain Future of Trade Unions in Britain🚨 💷Increasing union power could burden taxpayers with higher public sector wage bills and further disruption to railways, schools and the NHS. 📕New book by IEA Editorial and Research Fellow Professor Len Shackleton⤵️