Community Justice Jobs
Summer 2012 Legal Internships
Advancement Project
Location: Washington, DC
Advancement Project is currently seeking candidates for full-time legal internships for Summer 2012 at its national Washington D.C. office. Interns will work closely with civil rights attorneys and communication experts to create and implement strategies to support identified community-organizing efforts around racial justice issues.
Candidates must be law students or recent law school graduates. Candidates must have a demonstrated commitment to public service. Some experience in civil rights law, policy advocacy, or community organizing is a plus. Fluency in Spanish is also a plus. Eligibility for public interest grants or work study is not required, though welcome.
Advancement Project is a next generation civil rights organization. We tackle inequity using innovative strategies and strong community alliances. With a national office in Washington, D.C. and two offices in California, we combine law, communications, policy and technology to create workable solutions and achieve systemic change. We aim to inspire and strengthen movements that expand opportunity for all.
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Senior Attorney & Project Director of Voter Protection Program
Advancement Project
Location: Washington, DC
Advancement Project seeks an experienced civil rights litigator with at least seven years of legal experience to serve in its DC office as Senior Attorney and Director of its Voter Protection Program.
Advancement Project is a next generation civil rights organization. We tackle inequity using innovative strategies and strong community alliances. With a national office in Washington, D.C. and two offices in California, we combine law, communications, policy and technology to create workable solutions and achieve systemic change. We aim to inspire and strengthen movements that expand opportunity for all.
Advancement Project’s Voter Protection Program partners with local and national partners to eliminate legal and structural barriers to voting at the federal, state, and county levels in minority and low-income communities in select states and counties. The Program is grounded in collaborations with over two hundred local and national racial justice, progressive, voter registration, and civic engagement partners; continuously expands its broad, community-based election administration network to include additional racially diverse coalitions in its priority states; and supports its partners by advocating with state and local election officials to remove barriers to voting, drafting and disseminating “community-friendly” documents about voter protection issues, offering strategic communications and advocacy assistance, and—where necessary—representing partners in litigation to challenge burdens on voting. In the 2011-2012 election cycle, the Program anticipates operating in ten to twelve states, including Florida, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and other states to be determined.
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Managing Director, Programs
Advancement Project
Location: Washington, DC
Advancement Project’s national office seeks a creative, organized, results-driven individual with a passion for racial justice to serve in its newly created position of Managing Director, Programs. This person will be responsible for overseeing Advancement Project’s core programmatic work, ensuring that it remains impactful, innovative and high quality. S/he will plan and direct key activities of the organization and will play a leading role in developing and motivating staff in a collaborative environment. The Managing Director, Programs will manage, lead, and mentor directors of six projects in the following areas: Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track, Quality Education for All, Redistricting, Voter Protection, Inclusive Development and Immigrant Justice, as well as any future projects that the organization undertakes.
Advancement Project is an innovative civil rights law, policy, and communications “action tank” that advances universal opportunity and a just democracy for those left behind in America. Advancement Project believes that sustainable progress can be made when multiple tools—law, policy analysis, strategic communications, technology, and research—are coordinated with grassroots movements.
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