Whether you’re looking for your next opportunity or searching for exceptional talent, APPAM’s Career Connections is the premier career resource for the public policy, public management, and policy analysis community. Designed specifically for the field, Career Connections connects qualified professionals with employers seeking researchers, faculty, practitioners, and policy leaders. By focusing exclusively on public policy and public management, our job board eliminates the noise of broader employment sites and makes it easier to find the right fit.
Explore current job opportunities from employers across the public policy community. From research and analysis to program management, communications, data science, and leadership, find positions that match your skills, interests, and career goals.
Reach a highly qualified audience of public policy professionals through a platform built for the APPAM community. Whether you’re recruiting for faculty positions, research staff, leadership roles, or policy practitioners, Career Connections helps you connect with candidates who have the skills and experience your organization needs.
Whether you’re taking the next step in your career or building your team, APPAM’s Career Connections provides the focused, trusted platform to help you succeed.
Anyone seeking a position in the public policy field is welcome to use APPAM Career Connections. Membership is not required.
Submit your email address to be notified when any new jobs are added to the job listings
You can view the full list of open jobs on the main page of the job board, or for more narrowed searches, use the Industry and Employment type filters or keyword search box to find what best aligns with your interest. Log-in to use the quick apply feature.
Use your APPAM username to log-in and upload your resume. You can choose to either have the resume available to employers when you apply for a specific position, or you can make it available for any employer to view. Want to swap or remove your resume? Just email [email protected].
Employers have the opportunity to find their ideal candidate for their posted jobs.
Employers who are Institutional Members can view all resumes as long as they have an active job posting. As soon as the job post expires, the access to the resumes disappears too. Employers can access the Resume Bank under Employers > Resumes.
Once logged in, click Post a Job at the top of the page. From here, it will ask you to post the job title, employer, description, link, address and more information. Once you’ve filled in the details of your job posting, click Preview on the right to see a preview of how your job will display once it’s posted.
Institutional Members can post jobs for free. The Institutional rep is emailed at the beginning of each year with a job posting comp code. If you are unsure of your member status or cannot located the code, please email [email protected].
You can select the period of time your post should display on the job board. The options are 30, 60, or 90 days and the job will automatically be dropped from the board after that time period has passed.
To complete your job posting, fill out your payment information. Once completed, you will receive a confirmation email and your posting will go live on the job board immediately. If you are an Institutional Member, you should input your discount code in the payment section to remove the posting charge.
Emphasize jobs that you need filled fast! Featured listings will be prioritized at the top of the job board highlighted in yellow.
Feel free to review the FAQs below or contact [email protected].
APPAM Career Connections is available to all members and public.
Institutional Members can enjoy complimentary 30, 60, or 90 days postings. Upgrades to featured posting will have a small fee. Non-member institutions will be charged a fee for posting open jobs.
Job seekers do not have to be APPAM members and all functions of the job board are complimentary.
Basic posts on Career Connections are free of charge for APPAM Institutional Members though upgrades to featured jobs will have a small fee. Employers that are not institutional members will need to pay for a 30, 60, or 90 day posting.
Job Seekers can use Career Connections for free.
You can control who sees your resume.
When uploading your resume, you may select “Yes, add my resume to the Resume Bank” which means all employers with an active job posting will have access to your resume and could reach out to you.
Additionally, you may select “No, allow only this employer to view my resume.” and it will not be added to the Resume Bank.
To have a resume removed from the Resume Bank, please contact [email protected].
To apply for a position, please select ‘Apply’ on the top right part of the posting’s page. If the employer has added a Quick Apply option, you will be able to apply directly within Career Connections. If they have not added Quick Apply, please follow the employer’s instructions as laid out in the posting description.
Career Connections is organizaed by the following industry types:
Please email [email protected] to confirm whether or not your organization is a member.
Only the institutional representative’s APPAM credentials will automatically waive the posting fee. If you’re part of an institutional member organization but not the institutional representative, please contact your representative and ask for the discount code to waive the fee.
Not sure who your institutional representative is? Email [email protected] and we can point you in the right direction.
Only if you are employed by an organization that is also an institutional member. Complimentary postings are a benefit of our institutional memberships and as such, the only organizations able to waive the posting fee. Any organization that is not a member will be charged a posting fee.