Project Director, Private Sector, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Application Deadline: Wednesday, July 16, 2025.

Please include both a resume and a cover letter with your application.  

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals  

This new project aims to measurably reduce Americans’ exposure to harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The project will focus on reducing exposure to the most harmful EDCs in use in the near-term, while laying the foundation for longer-term policy reform to prevent additional harmful EDCs from being introduced. The Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals project is a collaboration between Pew’s Environment and Government Performance portfolios. 

The Environment Portfolio focuses on science-based, nonpartisan, and sustainable solutions to help protect the planet and people. We work in partnership with governments, Indigenous rights holders, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, local stakeholders, scientists, and other researchers to advance public policy so that nature and communities can thrive. 

The Government Performance portfolio provides the nonpartisan research, solutions, and momentum decisionmakers need to ensure our institutions improve the health of people in the United States and enable them to successfully climb the economic ladder. Those goals are pursued through a wide range of the portfolio’s policy-focused projects (with explorations into new areas underway)—from ensuring states’ finances are prepared for future volatility, to unlocking gateways to mental health care, to addressing the nation’s lack of attainable housing.    

Position Overview 

The project director, private sector, leads a team of approximately three staff and will be responsible for identifying priorities, challenges, and strategies to increase private sector partnership and participation in Pew’s efforts to reduce Americans’ exposure to harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals. The project director will lead the development and implementation of strategies for engaging the private sector and other stakeholder groups on ways to reduce exposure to harmful EDCs. The project director is expected to maintain detailed knowledge of public policy and regulatory activity on topics such as chemical oversight, and market and corporate trends.  

The project director will focus on building collaborative relationships with relevant stakeholders such as corporate officials, subject matter experts and relevant organizations. Effective leadership and communication skills are preferred, along with expertise in balancing the interests of multiple stakeholders through a nonpartisan lens. To achieve key tasks, the project director must develop close working relationships and become a trusted advisor to staff across each of the project’s workstreams.  

The project director reports to the director and is based in Pew’s Washington, D.C., office. The position will participate in Pew’s core in-office days on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with flexibility to work from home the remainder of each week.  

Responsibilities 

• Foster a work environment that is supportive, accessible, and in line with Pew and the project’s related goals.  

• Oversee and lead the work of the Private Sector workstream.  

• Manage and mentor members of the project, including day-to-day leadership and ongoing professional development.  

• Develop analyses of private sector stakeholders of interest to project goals, including but not limited to, identifying priorities, challenges, and industries to prioritize.  

• Oversee the design and implement a strategy for increasing corporate participation in voluntary data-shar