Care Economy Advisor
About The Position
The Care Economy Advisor will support the Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice team in developing a citywide policy framework for growth and job quality in the care sector, including elder care, childcare, and care for people with disabilities. Housed within the Inclusion and Full Participation portfolio in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice, the advisor will work across the administration to assess existing City policies and programs, identify promising opportunities, and develop recommendations that promote sector growth while centering worker voice and improving compensation, benefits, and working conditions. The advisor reports to the Senior Advisor for Inclusion and Full Participation. The role includes profiling the City's care economy; analyzing sector growth and job-quality data; engaging care workers and other stakeholders; mapping relevant City, state, and federal policies; and identifying opportunities for municipal action. The advisor will develop a framework to define and measure growth and job quality, including the roles of unions, cooperatives, and worker ownership. They will assess policy options for impacts, feasibility, equity, and funding; distinguish near-term City actions from longer-term strategies; prepare prioritized, policy-ready materials; and help drive implementation with government and external partners.
Requirements
- Must be an attorney with an understanding of complex legal issues, including legislation, contracts, and governmental program funding.
- At least 10–15 years of relevant experience in public policy, economic policy, labor policy, care-economy policy, workforce development, workplace-standards enforcement, or a related field.
- Extensive knowledge of the care economy, including childcare, early childhood education, and long-term care, with knowledge of workforce conditions, administrative and regulatory structures, enforcement, and funding streams.
- Demonstrated track record of developing policy proposals, translating research into actionable recommendations, and working with government to advance policies.
- Demonstrated experience centering worker voice in growth and job-quality strategies, including consideration of unions, cooperatives, and worker ownership.
- Experience using City- and state-level tools to ensure compliance with worker-protection standards.
- Experience conducting stakeholder engagement with workers, labor organizations, community organizations, philanthropy, and public-sector partners.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative research capabilities.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate with senior government officials across diverse teams.
- Ability to assess policy options from fiscal, administrative, legal, equity, enforcement, and implementation perspectives.
- Admission to the New York State Bar and continued good standing as a member of the New York State Bar during employment.
- A cover letter is required in addition to a resume.
Nice To Haves
- Comparative knowledge of care-economy policies across states and municipalities.
- Experience with care-economy workforce, working conditions, administrative, regulatory, enforcement, and funding structures at city, state, and federal levels.
Responsibilities
- Profile the City's care economy, including occupations, sectors, labor organizations, employers, workforce, demand and capacity, administrative and regulatory structures, enforcement, and public funding streams.
- Analyze data on care-sector growth and job quality, including disparities by race, gender, geography, immigration status, and employment arrangement.
- Engage care workers and other stakeholders, including unions, worker cooperatives, small business incubators, providers, mission-aligned lenders and funders, and public-sector partners.
- Map City, state, and federal policies affecting sector growth and job quality; review City contracting, procurement, licensing, workforce, and economic development policies and worker-standards enforcement tools.
- Identify gaps and opportunities for municipal action, including by reviewing policies in other cities and states.
- Develop a framework for expanding the care sector while improving job quality and worker voice, and define and measure job quality across compensation, benefits, stability, worker voice, equity, professionalization, and sector sustainability.
- Identify the role of unions, cooperatives, and worker ownership in expanding the care sector.
- Develop and assess municipal policy options to grow the sector and improve job quality, considering impacts, feasibility, effects on small providers, equity, stakeholder views, and funding sources.
- Distinguish near-term actions within City authority from longer-term, legislative, state, or federal strategies.
- Deliver prioritized recommendations in policy-ready briefs, memos, research summaries, senior-official briefings, and presentations.
- Drive implementation of key strategies with partners inside and outside government.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
