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About the Role
Children’s Rights seeks a Director of Advocacy and Policy to lead its growing advocacy and policy program, driving systemic change for children and families.
Responsibilities
- Set and advance federal, state, and local advocacy priorities in alignment with organizational objectives and community needs.
- Build and maintain strategic partnerships with stakeholders, including lived experts, community organizations, and decisionmakers.
- Foster collaboration across departments, integrating advocacy with litigation, research, and other program work.
- Develop and lead policy campaigns and coalitions at various levels, coordinating roles and actions for effective change.
- Apply a racial justice and anti-discrimination lens to all advocacy efforts, particularly concerning child welfare systems.
- Advance policy agendas focused on family integrity, children's health, rights of children in custody, and combating discriminatory practices.
- Track policy, legislative, and administrative developments, translating intelligence into actionable guidance.
- Engage lawmakers and agency leaders through testimony, briefings, and direct advocacy.
- Collaborate with the Communications Department to shape compelling messages for various audiences.
- Oversee and contribute to written materials such as reports, policy briefs, and articles.
- Provide strategic oversight of the team's research, analysis, and policy guidance, ensuring rigor and alignment with advocacy.
- Serve as a national spokesperson and thought leader for Children's Rights.
- Partner with leadership to secure philanthropic support for advocacy initiatives.
- Supervise, mentor, and support the professional development of the Advocacy & Policy Team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in advocacy, policy, community engagement, or legislative work.
- Substantial experience in child welfare policy, advocacy, or practice.
- Experience in other systems affecting children and families (e.g., juvenile legal, mental health, disability, immigration, education).
- Demonstrated commitment to racial justice and understanding of historical impacts on Black families.
- Ability to apply racial justice analysis to advocacy priorities and strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with directly impacted communities and decisionmakers.
- Experience developing policy campaigns, advocacy strategies, and building coalitions.
- Experience working directly with legislators, public officials, or institutions.
- Experience integrating advocacy with impact litigation.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues and adapt messages.
- Strong relationship-building, organizational, project management, and coalition-facilitation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to supervise, mentor, and develop staff.
- Ability to oversee and utilize qualitative and quantitative research and data for strategy.
- Experience securing philanthropic support for advocacy initiatives is a plus.
Skills
- Advocacy
- Policy analysis
- Community engagement
- Legislative drafting
- Child welfare policy
- Racial justice
- Coalition building
- Public speaking
- Research
- Data analysis
- Project management
- Staff supervision
- Relationship building
Location
- New York City
- Washington, D.C.
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Director
- 10+ years of experience
Education Level
- Advanced degree in social work, public policy, law, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $165,000 to $185,000
Benefits
- Generous PTO
- Medical
- Dental
- Flex spending accounts
- Paid parental leave
- Retirement plan
About the Company
- Children’s Rights is a national advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and families affected by America’s child welfare, juvenile legal, immigration, education, and healthcare systems.
- We use civil rights impact litigation, advocacy, policy, and lived expertise to hold governments accountable for keeping kids safe and healthy, and to create systemic change.
- Our Advocacy & Policy Department advances policies, laws, and systems change that protect children’s fundamental right to family integrity and improve their well-being.
- We have a reputation for producing careful research and policy analysis on pressing issues.
- We partner with communities, lived experts, advocates, policy analysts, and government officials to advance policies and practices that strengthen children, families, and communities.
Equal Opportunity
- Children’s Rights is an equal employment opportunity employer, and women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, and people with unique lived experience or diverse professional or personal backgrounds and perspectives, are encouraged to apply.