Under the direction of the Executive Director, the position is responsible for leading, managing, and developing a small team of 3-6 policy research staff (analysts, fellows, and research assistants), specifically overseeing the unclassified and classified research, policy analysis, writing & editing, and policy recommendation development work in Economics and Trade subject matter areas for each member of the assigned research team.

Duties

1. Lead and manage a diverse team developing policy-relevant analysis within the Commission's mandate. Lead the team's efforts to: generate ideas; research and draft the Commission's Annual Report; prepare issue briefs and staff papers; develop hearings; draft talking points and editorials, etc. 2. Develop and mentor junior and mid-career policy analysts to build subject matter expertise and produce substantive and effective written and oral assessments of issues in the team's portfolio. 3. Collaborate with peer analytic team(s) to ensure research in support of the Commission's mandate is comprehensive and coordinated across all relevant issue areas. 4. Ensure the team's analytic work is: accurate, timely, and well written; satisfies the requirements of Commissioners and Congress; reflects the Commission's positions; are relevant to Congressional policy-making; and meet professional and tradecraft standards. 5. Serve as a subject matter expert for Commissioners, to Congressional staff, and in support of the Commission's advice to Congress, in the subject areas assigned to your team (see areas of expertise identified in the requirements and qualifications listed below). 6. Develop and sustain a professional network with officials in the U.S. government who create or carry out China-related strategy, policy, or plans; regulators involved in executing economic or trade relations with China; and China analysts in the U.S. government, private sector, and academia.

Requirements

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS 1. An established record of policy-relevant professional experience on issues related to U.S. economics and trade relations with China and their implications for U.S. national security. 2. Experience supervising and leading people and teams in conducting research and analysis. 3. Strong and demonstrated ability to present information clearly and concisely through both written and oral communication. 4. Advanced research, analytical, and evaluative skills, including the ability to mentor and develop in analysts the skills necessary to synthesize and analyze large amounts of disparate data on emerging and/or controversial issues and clearly communicate their implications to a policy audience. 5. Expert knowledge of three or more of the following areas. a. The overall state of China's domestic economy; b. China's financial system, including its banking system and capital markets, and their regulation; c. China's evolving policy and regulatory landscape, including market access for foreign companies, protection of intellectual property rights, data security, food and product safety, energy, and technology development; d. China's economic diplomacy and statecraft, including its participation in international economic governance and standards organizations; e. Trade policies and practices of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, as well as which agencies within these jurisdictions are responsible for determining, implementing, and supervising, and conducting trade policies relationships; f. U.S.-China bilateral trade and investment flows, and their impact on U.S. national security, industries, and workers; g. China's adherence to U.S.-China bilateral trade and investment commitments, its obligations as a member of the World Trade Organization, and other multilateral agreements; h. Trade laws, regulations, procedures and goals of the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch, especially those pertaining to the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, as well as to the control of exports and regulation of securities issuance and trading; and i. The overall composition of international trade, and the application of economic principles in U.S. bilateral and multilateral trade, financial, and economic relations. j. China's defense industry and military-civil fusion policy and programs: research, development, and acquisition (RDA) of defense weapons, materiel, and equipment in China; the ecosystem of state-owned enterprises, nominally private industry, military offices that oversee the development of arms and armament, and the research institutions involved in the RDA process. k. Advanced developing technologies, dual-use technologies, and their relationship to key defense, military, law enforcement, and surveillance applications. 6. Professional proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, to include ability to effectively utilize original language sources of electronic and print information, and guide the use of such resources by other analysts, in developing policy-relevant original research and analysis.

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher.

Contacts

• Address US-China Economic and Security Review Commission 444 North Capitol Street, NW Suite 602 Washington, DC 20001 US
• Name: Human Resources
• Phone: 202-624-1407
• Email: [email protected]