KAP 2025-2026 - Transportation Policy Analyst - Reason Foundation
Washington, DC
Koch Associate Program – General Concentration /
ST Fellowships - Remote /
Remote
The Koch Associate Program (KAP) is a career accelerator for early to mid-career professionals with a drive to tackle our country’s most pressing challenges in more effective, principled ways. KAP equips associates with the tools, mindsets, and community to succeed as social entrepreneurs—individuals excited to find new and better ways to break barriers and eliminate injustice. Associates spend one day each week engaging in experiential learning with Stand Together Fellowships and work at one of our many partner organizations the rest of the week. Our curriculum is designed to supercharge your development and equip you for long-term success as you seek to have an impact on the problems that prevent people from realizing their potential.
About Reason Foundation
Reason Foundation advances a free society by developing, applying, and promoting libertarian principles, including individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law.
Reason Foundation produces respected, nonpartisan public policy research on a variety of issues and publishes the critically-acclaimed Reason magazine. Together, our top-tier think tank and political and cultural magazine reach a diverse, influential audience, advancing the values of choice, individual freedom, and limited government.
Reason’s Transportation Policy Team
Reason Foundation envisions a transportation system that adheres to free market principles, is free of unnecessary government intrusion, and is supported by users. Our transportation policy team supports decision makers at the federal, state, and local levels by researching and implementing highway, transit, aviation, freight rail, high-speed rail, land use, and regulatory policy. Common transportation aspects our team examines are funding, finance, operations, and planning. To see what issues we work on see https://reason.org/topics/transportation/. We accomplish these objectives through policy research, technical support, and thought leadership.
About the Opening
The Transportation Policy Analyst will work with the transportation team to provide policy research and data-driven analyses in support of our efforts in creating sound transportation policy. The position involves researching, summarizing, and analyzing transportation policy with a focus on, but not limited to, state government. This includes researching and writing commentaries, op-eds, policy briefs, and policy studies. This person will also assist with collecting, combining, and modeling spreadsheets and datasets. The ideal candidate is a team player who is quantitatively oriented, exceptionally resourceful, willing to tackle large projects independently, enjoys problem solving, and pays close attention to detail.
In-office in Los Angeles or Washington, DC, or Virtual Anywhere in the US.
Responsibilities
- Researching and summarizing various components of state and local transportation policy and operations to support our research and implementation efforts
- Writing policy studies, policy briefs, op-eds, and commentaries for Reason.org and other outlets
- Compiling and analyzing spreadsheets and datasets, and communicating findings to team members and other stakeholders
- Tracking legislative reform efforts in various states and producing regular reports for the transportation policy team
- Tracking and recording various outputs for the transportation policy team, including legislative meetings, written deliverables, commentaries, and other outputs
- Participating in coalitions that advance Reason Foundation’s transportation policy agenda at the state level
- Other duties as assigned
- Travel and attendance to a few conferences per year are expected.
Qualifications
- Strong analytical skills
- Working knowledge of or ability to rapidly learn data analysis and data visualization applications such as R, Shiny Apps, and Tableau is preferred
- Strong oral and written communication skills and an ability to effectively convey complex concepts to non-experts
- Working knowledge of state legislative processes and practices
- Curiosity and self-motivation to learn new things and tackle difficult technical problems you may have never dealt with before
- General alignment with Reason Foundation’s mission to advance a free society by developing, applying, and promoting libertarian principles
In your application, please include a cover letter detailing your alignment with Reason’s mission, your interest in the position, your qualifications, and a writing sample.
About Stand Together Fellowships
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