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About the Role
The ACLU seeks an Assistant Director/Senior Writer for its Development Department at the National office in New York, NY. This hybrid role requires two days per week or eight days per month in the office and is scheduled to begin in January 2027. The Development Department's mission is to build long-term donor relationships and organizational partnerships to support civil liberties work.
Responsibilities
- Draft proposals, reports, and stewardship materials on civil liberties issues.
- Support donor relationships for a high-volume institutional fundraising program.
- Synthesize complex information into clear and compelling grant proposals, reports, letters of inquiry, and stewardship materials for foundation and individual donors.
- Develop and maintain knowledge of ACLU's past, current, and future work in assigned subject areas.
- Meet all writing deadlines for assigned portfolio.
- Fact check materials produced by other Development teams related to assigned subject areas.
- Assist ACLU program staff with stewardship of current funders, including drafting substantive updates on the ACLU's work.
- Conduct research for new potential funders and develop cultivation strategies.
- Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Significant experience applying exceptional writing skills in foundation fundraising or a related field.
- Ability to synthesize and communicate complex issues clearly and concisely.
- Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy and detail.
- Ability to adapt writing styles for varied audiences and persuade positively.
- Skilled in creating persuasive and compelling organizational-level messaging and cases for support in changing political environments.
- Ability to manage several complex projects simultaneously and independently.
- Ability to manage deadlines effectively.
- Ability to edit the work of others.
- Ability to develop and maintain productive relationships within the team, department, and across the nationwide organization.
- Familiarity with fundraising databases is preferred.
- Experience working at complex national or international organizations is preferred.
Skills
- Exceptional writing skills
- Synthesizing complex information
- Clear and concise communication
- Accuracy and detail orientation
- Adaptable writing styles
- Persuasive communication
- Organizational messaging
- Case for support development
- Project management
- Deadline management
- Editing
- Relationship building
- Fundraising databases (preferred)
- Working at complex national or international organizations (preferred)
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Assistant Director/Senior Writer
Salary/Compensations
- $XXX (Level -)
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
- For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
- The ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.
Equal Opportunity
- Accessibility, equity, diversity and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all.
- We are committed to anti-oppression, anti-ableism, and anti-racism internally as we are externally.
- We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.