We are looking for people who share our values as well as our commitment to quality; who believe that the production of knowledge can support positive change; and who want to analyse monetary policy (quantitatively and qualitatively) and make proposals for improving it.

We offer you an environment in which you and your ideas can develop into the best version of themselves. Dezernat Zukunft will help you improve your skills and grow your public profile, bring your ideas and analyses into public debates, whether through German or English daily or weekly newspapers, publications in magazines for experts and civil servants, podcasts, interviews or on TV.

Your role

You will be part of a research institute that wants to make the world a better place. As a Monetary Policy Economist (f/m/d, 32-39 hours per week) you will have the following tasks and responsibilities:

• You will conduct research on inflation, private and public investment, banks and financial markets, the intersection of monetary and climate policy and other topics of relevance to monetary policy. Through desk research, interviews, data gathering and other methods, you will produce economic analyses, scan policy- and scientific debates and develop policy proposals. Together with our leadership team, you will help us decide which projects to tackle and which proposals to develop.
• You will develop robust, useful models and data sets to better understand inflation, investment, growth, the development of specific industries or other financial and economic phenomena. In this work, you will be supported and guided by our experts.
  These analyses are the core of your role. Our policy proposals are based on them. As the stakes are generally high in monetary policy decision-making, a robust and precise analytical foundation is essential.
• You own your projects. You work independently and thoroughly, have an inherent interest in monetary policy, finance, macroeconomics and their politics. You are determined to get to the bottom of things, even if that requires going the extra mile. The team will support you when necessary or helpful; initiative and responsibility lie with you.
• You want to learn something new every day. Monetary policy is difficult. No one has all the skills, let alone all the wisdom (us neither!). We expect you to bring a certain amount of knowledge and to have some policy views. More importantly, however, we expect you to grow your knowledge and change your views. We support this by challenging, encouraging and educating each other daily.
• You are confident and skilled in interacting with representatives of central banks, governments, academia and the media, or willing and able to grow in this direction. Our works depends on a close and productive exchange with these and other stakeholders. As a Monetary Policy Economist, you will learn what makes these actors tick and how to take this into account in our work.

Interested?

Further information on the requirements and application can be found here.

We value diversity and want to increase the diversity of our team. We welcome all applications, regardless of gender, nationality, ethnicity, cultural and social background, religion, age, sexual orientation and -identity.

If you are still unsure: talk to us! You can contact Max Krahé via direct message on Twitter/X (www.x.com/maxkrahe) or via e-mail (max.krahe@dezernatzukunft.org).

Are you still a student and interested in getting to know our work and contributing actively? Perhaps you have a topic that you would particularly like to explore in depth as part of your work with us, or would like to help develop one of our formats or set up a new one? Please upload your CV, a short cover letter, a text written by you and and the period in which you would prefer to do the internship on our career site.

Work location is our Berlin office. The internship is paid.