Open Job Vacancies
Senior Position
We are looking for a committed new member of our dynamic team at the Senior level.
What we offer
- Work on intellectually demanding and politically relevant challenges to have a lasting impact on our society
- Work in a small, dynamic and highly committed team
- Competitive salary and flexible work arrangements
- The position is initially advertised for one year. An extension will be sought.
- Work at the border between new economic thinking and practical policy-making at the heart of Berlin.
About the Forum New Economy
The Forum New Economy is a Berlin-based non-partisan platform launched in 2019 with the aim to accelerate the emergence of a new paradigm that leads to economically, socially and ecologically more sustainable prosperity. The Forum seeks to drive new approaches at the interface between academia and policy. It does so by promoting innovative research to respond to major challenges such as inequality, financial instability and climate change. The Forum informs current policy debates, by bringing together leading innovative academics with policymakers and a broader public in Germany and beyond.
The Forum works as an autonomous unit under the legal entity of the European Climate Foundation. It is also supported by the Mercator, the Hewlett and other foundations, as well as by a high-level group of academic partners. It is run by a Berlin-based bureau in which six full-time members are working at the frontier between new thinking and practical policymaking.
Senior Level Vacancy
If you are eager and have a convincing track record to develop the Forum New Economy in two or more of the following areas:
- expertise in one of our main areas of work (inequality, globalisation, financial markets, modern climate policy) with special focus on new economic approaches;
- stakeholder reach-out in Berlin and beyond (politics, administration, economic policy researchers …);
- general management of a small-to-medium sized non-profit organisation;
- fundraising for a non-profit organisation;
- managing the Forum’s economic policy research activities;
and
- you stand behind the Forum’s mission to help establish a new economic paradigm beyond ideological or political borders;
- your prior experience convincingly shows a cross-partisan approach to policy work;
- you have at least 6 years of experience in policy advisory, advocacy and/or economic policy research work;
- you have experience in leading small, agile teams in a non-profit / think tank environment;
- are fluent in German, English (both mandatory) and ideally another European language;
then please apply by stating your motivation to work for the Forum New Economy, your main fields of prior experience, and in which of the mentioned fields you think you can decisively strengthen the Forum’s team.
Location: Berlin, with travel as needed and the option of home office as is feasible
Start date: Immediately
How to apply: Send E-Mail and motivational letter to thomas.fricke@newforum.org
Candidates need to be in the possession of a work permit for the work location if applicable.
All applications will be treated confidentially. We will store your information in our internal database unless you specifically request otherwise.
OUR MAIN TOPICS
New Paradigm
NEW PARADIGM
After decades of overly naive market belief, we urgently need new answers to the great challenges of our time. More so, we need a whole new paradigm to guide us. We collect everything about the people and the community who are dealing with the question of a new paradigm and who analyze the historical and present impact of paradigms and narratives – whether in new contributions, performances, books and events.
Redefining
the role of
the state
REDEFINING
THE ROLE OF
THE STATE
For decades, there was a consensus that reducing the role of the state and cutting public debt would generate wealth. This contributed to a chronic underinvestment in education and public infrastructure. New research focuses on establishing when and how governments need to intervene to better contribute to long-term prosperity and to stabilize rather than aggravate economic fluctuations.
Remaking
finance
REMAKING
FINANCE
More than a decade after the financial crisis there still seems to be something seriously wrong with the financial system. Financial markets still tend to periodically misprice risk and contribute to boom and bust cycles. A better financial system needs to discourage short-termism and speculative activity, curtail systemic risk and distribute wealth more broadly.
Greening
prosperity
GREENING
PROSPERITY
During the high point of market orthodoxy, economists argued that the most 'efficient' way to combat climate change was to simply let markets determine the price of carbon emissions. Today, there is a growing consensus that prices need to be regulated and that a carbon price on its own might not be enough.
Reducing
inequality
REDUCING
INEQUALITY
The rising gap between rich and poor has become a threat to social cohesion in most rich countries. To reverse this trend it will be crucial to better understand the importance of different drivers of income and wealth inequality.
Innovation Lab
INNOVATION LAB
Do we need a whole new understanding of economic growth? What would be a real alternative? How viable are alternatives to GDP when it comes to measuring prosperity? These and other more fundamental challenges are what this section is about.
Globalization
for all
GLOBALIZATION
FOR ALL
After three decades of poorly managed integration, globalization is threatened by social discontent and the rise of populist forces. A new paradigm will need better ways not only to compensate the groups that have lost, but to distribute the gains more broadly from the start.
Europe
beyond markets
EUROPE
BEYOND MARKETS
The euro was planned during a period in which economic policy making was driven by a deep belief in market liberalism and the near impossibility of systemic financial crises. This belief has been brought into question since the euro crisis, which showed that panics do happen. New thinking needs to focus on developing mechanisms to protect eurozone countries from such panics and to foster economic convergence between members.
Corona Crisis
CORONA CRISIS
The current Corona crisis is probably the worst economic crisis of the post-World War 2 era. Economists are working hard on mitigating the economic effects caused by COVID-19 to prevent a second Great Depression, the break-up of the Eurozone and the end of globalisation. We collect the most important contributions.