Website Content Specialist

The Website Content Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring that the Cato Institutes 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 $55000 to $65000 per year. Compensation is based on the successful candidates educational background experience and skills.

About Cato

The Cato Institute is a public policy research organizationa think tankdedicated 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 Catos 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 todays 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.

Education and Experience

• Professional Experience: 1-2 years of experience in website administration CMS content management digital production or web editorial work. Internships freelance work and relevant coursework count.
• CMS Proficiency: Hands-on experience publishing and managing content in a content management system (Sanity Drupal WordPress or similar). Experience with Sanity or another headless CMS is a plus.
• AI Tool Fluency: Practical experience using AI assistants or similar tools for production or writing tasks and a clear sense of their limits. You should be able to describe how you check AI output before relying on it.
• Technical Aptitude: Basic HTML and CSS are expected. Comfort learning new web tools quickly and following documented procedures.
• Organization & Project Management: Ability to manage a steady queue of small tasks in a project management tool set realistic timelines and give proactive updates.
• Communication: Clear written and verbal communication with technical and nontechnical colleagues including scholars and editors who may be new to our platform.

To Apply

Please apply through our online application process and submit the following materials:

• CV/Resume
• Cover Letter
• Salary Requirements

Benefits

All Cato employees are offered the following benefits:

• Medical dental and vision insurance
• Employer contribution to a Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Generous vacation and sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Employer-provided life and disability insurance
• 401(k) with employer match
• Transit/Parking benefits
• Pet discount plan

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position does not offer visa sponsorship.