Senior Advisor, Affiliate Legal Programs

The role

The Senior Advisor, Affiliate Legal Programs serves as a strategic advisor to affiliate Legal Directors to build and sustain effective legal programs. The role involves developing legal strategies, managing program infrastructure, and coordinating integrated advocacy efforts across the affiliate network.

What you will do

• Serve as a senior resource and strategic advisor to affiliate leaders
• Support affiliate Executive Directors in hiring and onboarding Legal Directors
• Advise Legal Directors on building and managing legal programs
• Identify and scale effective practices for affiliate legal programs
• Help affiliate leaders develop integrated advocacy approaches
• Develop practical tools for assessing legal program capacity and progress
• Identify and synthesize trends and lessons across affiliate legal programs
• Represent the Department in National and affiliate program and legal planning processes
• Lead or facilitate collaboration between National and affiliate legal programs
• Advise ASNI colleagues on grants and other investments in affiliate legal programs

Required qualifications

• J.D.
• Significant experience leading or advancing a civil rights/civil liberties legal program at a national and/or state organization
• Experience recruiting, training, managing, and motivating diverse and high-performing legal teams in a non-profit setting
• Demonstrated experience and familiarity with building legal strategies or programs that integrate advocacy and communications
• Strong facilitation, strategic advising, and presentation skills
• Experience leading workshops, trainings, convenings, and planning processes
• Ability to build relationships and trust within a large and diverse group of stakeholders
• Highly organized with attention to detail
• Experience with managing legal staff or familiarity with best practice approaches to people management
• Strong project management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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

Before you apply

• This position is part of a collective bargaining unit represented by ACLU Staff United (ASU)

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.