Project Director, Philadelphia Research and Policy Initiative

Posted by Pew on January 27, 2026

The Philadelphia Program
In Pew’s Philadelphia Program our vision is of a thriving community where residents are safe, healthy, and have access to the arts, opportunities for economic advancement, engagement with trusted civic institutions, and places to gather that foster pride, collaboration, and innovation. Through collectively leveraging our research, policy, convening, technical support, and grantmaking, we help community partners and government gain knowledge and adopt policies, programs, and practices that contribute to each of three priority areas: economic mobility, community safety, and community and cultural vitality.

Philadelphia Research and Policy Initiative
The Philadelphia research and policy initiative (PRPI) explores and advances effective, evidence-based policies in Philadelphia. Using credible, timely, and accessible research, assessing opportunities for reform, identifying approaches that have proved successful elsewhere, we bring together diverse perspectives to find common ground. We work in collaboration with organizations that share our commitment to rigorous research, measurable policy results, and civic engagement, and we focus on delivering durable policy change. In addition, our team employs strategic outreach and dissemination to ensure that good information is widely communicated to decision-makers, media, influential stakeholders, and the public. Examples of the initiative’s work are available here.

Position Overview
The project director leads the processes and implementation strategies that leverage research, convening and policy engagement strategies to inform and enable Philadelphia policymakers with a focus on concrete policy and program recommendations, and adoption and implementation of those solutions in support of Philadelphia and Philadelphians. The project director brings strong strategic focus to Pew’s policy engagement activities, contributing the right mix of outreach, policy research, policy implementation, and Pew’s national expertise resulting in actions taken by policymakers, institutional actors and civic and advocacy groups on each of our issue areas. The project director manages and creates growth opportunities for staff, among other duties.

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