Deputy Project Director for Immigration Detention, National Prison Project

The role

The Deputy Project Director assists the Project Director in managing the National Prison Project. This role involves strategic planning, fundraising, staff supervision, and leading complex civil rights litigation and advocacy campaigns regarding immigration detention.

What you will do

• Supervise staff attorneys, legal fellows, and administrative staff
• Assist in making staffing decisions
• Ensure balance of work across Project staff
• Engage in litigation in federal and state court
• Serve as lead or co-lead counsel on major class actions
• Conduct discovery, motion practice, hearings, and trials
• Manage case development and conduct client and witness interviews
• Conduct legal research and write legal memoranda
• Provide technical assistance and expert legal advice to ACLU affiliates
• Lead and manage advocacy campaigns

Required qualifications

• J.D. degree
• Active State Bar membership
• Demonstrated experience working in immigrant detention and immigrant community settings
• Excellent legal research, writing, and verbal communication skills
• Ability to engage in complex legal analysis and fact finding
• Ability to write and speak clearly and persuasively
• Experience working with reporters and the media on criminal justice and immigration issues
• Ability to work with a wide range of people and foster a team environment
• Commitment to the mission of the ACLU
• Commitment to diversity
• Commitment to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and/or conflicts

Nice to have

• Fluency in Spanish or other languages commonly spoken by immigrant detainees
• Self-motivated, diligent and able to meet strict deadlines while under pressure
• Extensive experience in class action litigation
• Proven expertise in campaign management and execution
• Comprehensive experience in criminal justice, immigration issues, and institutional reform efforts

Benefits

• Generous paid time-off policy
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage
• Parental leave
• Gender affirming care & fertility treatment
• 401k plan and employer match
• Annual professional development funds
• Internal professional development programs and workshops

About the company

The ACLU has worked for over 100 years to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. The National Prison Project works to ensure that conditions in prisons, jails, juvenile detention centers, and immigration detention facilities comply with the Constitution, domestic law, and international human rights principles.