Hiring: Lead for the Plan México Project
Join the team at The Mexico Political Economist and have your say on the country's industrial policy.
Job description
We are looking to hire a full-time Project Lead at The Mexico Political Economist. If chosen, you will help coordinate and research the Plan México Project.
Applicants must be well versed in Mexico’s political economy. You must understand and balance the interests and motivations of both the business sector—entrepreneurs, SMEs, titans of industry, and investors—as well as governmental and political actors.
You must have a proven ability to make and interview contacts across both the private and public sectors. Knowledge of data analytics or data journalism is a significant plus, as is previous experience in industrial policy.
This is not an academic role. You must be able to express your findings in a clear, crisp, and entertaining way. If you’re wondering what this means precisely, making yourself familiar with the style of The Mexico Political Economist wouldn’t be a bad place to start.
If chosen, you will get to talk to the country’s biggest movers and shakers, and be part of the conversation around the most ambitious industrial policy plan in Mexico’s recent history.
This will be a competitively paid year-long consultancy starting towards the middle of 2026.
What is the Plan México Project?
The Plan México Project is an initiative to create clear and actionable roadmaps to propel investment in a small number of key industries. The sectors named in Plan México—the Mexican government’s flagship industrial policy—will be the Project’s point of departure.
This undertaking will be, at its core, an exercise in investigative journalism. You and the team at The Mexico Political Economist will be boarding each sector impartially as a specialist reporter. Through research, data analysis, and interviews, you will help dissect each industry and identify those best suited for immediate development.
With every deep dive you will aid the team in producing either an action plan to pursue or a reason why this sector might be best de-prioritised for now. Either way, both will be published to a wide audience in the form of an engaging and non-technical journalistic report.
Those sectors that do pass to the next phase will be subdivided into their most promising sub-sectors. The Project will see you drill down to specific industries, geographies, and even individual key business and governmental actors that will, in conjunction, kickstart the projects that will most develop the economy.
The final conclusion will be to produce a handful of detailed roadmaps (also presented as journalistic reports) for achievable, winning projects that will be:
Cheap to launch
Quick to kick-off
Scalable to the benefit of workers, consumers, and businesses alike
A quick win for other investors to see the unlocked potential in Mexico
As the Project’s Lead you will be involved in:
Collecting data and conducting other research around each sector
Identifying, contacting, and interviewing relevant actors in the public, private, academic, and social arenas
Writing the final journalistic reports that will publish the Project’s findings
Helping with the Project’s social media, coordinating media appearances, and events to broadcast its findings
For more on the Plan Mexico Project click here.
What is The Mexico Political Economist?
The Mexico Political Economist was born two years ago as an outlet that delivers concise and engaging reporting about the Mexican economy, business, politics, and public policy. It balances its role as an access ramp to Mexico for those with little knowledge of the country—but who need to understand it as decision-makers—with its role as a dependable source of in-depth information and analysis for top Mexico experts.
The Mexico Political Economist has rapidly become a must-read newsletter for global policymakers, investors, academics, and business people. It lands in inboxes across the US State Department, the European Commission, the Mexican finance ministry, the international desks of top news sites, and the CEOs of the largest companies in Mexico and beyond.
How to apply
Applicants should send an “extended pitch.” This will be a brief proposal revolving around a sector of the Plan México you’d like to address. It should include:
A brief introductory analysis of the sector. Why have you chosen it?
An explanation of how you’d approach this sector for the Plan México Project
Interviewees: These are not people you will hope to reach out to, but rather those with whom you are already in touch and/or are pretty certain will give you an interview. Ideally, you’ll be able to have a brief conversation with them beforehand both to prove you’re in contact and also to bolster the credibility of your pitch.
A final brief paragraph on who you are and why you are best suited to the position of Project Lead.
The entire pitch should not go over 500 words.
Send your application to apply@mxpe.org by 5th May, 2026.