Website Content Specialist

The Website Content Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring that the Cato Institute’s groundbreaking policy work is portrayed to the public accurately and effectively. The Specialist will manage the day-to-day production work of our platforms: building and updating pages, entering and migrating content, and checking the results. You will work with the Senior Website Administrator, and with the wider digital team, to keep projects on schedule and stakeholders informed.

This role sits where hands-on production, AI-assisted efficiency, and editorial judgment meet, requiring a high attention to detail, paired with a desire to create efficient process through AI tools and agents. But there is no AI replacement for human judgment, so you will serve as the human quality check on everything produced. We expect you to know which tasks to hand to a tool, which to do by hand, and how to verify the result either way.

This is a hybrid position based in Washington, DC, reporting to the Senior Director, Web Products. This is a non-exempt role.

The projected salary range for this role is $55,000 to $65,000 per year. Compensation is based on the successful candidate’s educational background, experience, and skills.

About Cato

The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization—a think tank—dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Its scholars and analysts conduct independent, nonpartisan research on a wide range of policy issues.

Founded in 1977, Cato owes its name to Cato’s Letters, a series of essays published in 18th-century England that presented a vision of a society free from excessive government power. Those essays inspired the architects of the American Revolution. And the simple, timeless principles of that revolution — individual liberty, limited government, and free markets — turn out to be even more powerful in today’s world of global markets and unprecedented access to information than Jefferson or Madison could have imagined. Social and economic freedom is not just the best policy for a free people, it is the indispensable framework for the future.

The Cato Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Responsibilities 

• Website Production & CMS Operations: Build, update, and maintain pages, layouts, and content. Maintain metadata, links, images, alt text, and other fields that affect search, accessibility, and sharing.
• AI-Assisted Workflows: Use AI tools and agents to draft metadata, clean and format content, tag and categorize, flag inconsistencies, and handle repetitive bulk updates. Identify routine tasks ripe for automation, document the prompts and workflows that work, and note where they fail.
• Editorial & Quality Control: Review content before and after publication for accuracy and consistency with our style protocols.  Catch the errors automated tools introduce or miss, including plausible but incorrect details. Spot-check bulk and automated changes, and route open questions to editors, scholars, or content owners rather than guessing.
• Content Request Intake: Log, prioritize, and track requests for page and content updates using our project management tools, in consultation with the Senior Website Administrator. Escalate technical questions to the Administrator, and keep requesters updated on status.
• Documentation & Process Improvement: Support team-wide adoption of new workflows, AI-assisted procedures, and editorial review checklists. Suggest improvements to recurring processes, and track where new tools save time and where they create rework.
• Cross-Functional Support: Work with scholars, program staff, and department heads to turn page and content requests into finished pages built from standard CMS components, and coordinate with the Senior Website Administrator, the Digital Project Manager, and the Design Director on timing and visual standards.