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About the Role

The ACLU seeks applicants for the full-time position of Deputy Project Director for Immigration Detention in the National Prison Project (NPP) of the ACLU’s National office. 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. NPP has successfully litigated on behalf of incarcerated and detained people in more than 25 states, and is the only organization litigating conditions of confinement cases nationwide.

Responsibilities

Directly supervise specified staff attorneys, legal fellows, and/or administrative staff.
Assist NPP Project Director, Co-Deputy Project Director, and management team in making staffing decisions.
Ensure balance of work across Project staff, including opportunities for writing, arguments, discovery, witness examinations, case development, and other professional growth.
Ensure that Project staff maintain and foster relationships with media, coalition partners, and other targets and allies.
Collaborate with other members of management team to improve process for hiring, onboarding, and managing new staff, fellows, and interns.
Oversee sustained efforts to create and nurture pools of diverse candidates from which to recruit.
Align with management, including collaborating with and sharing ownership of decisions made by the NPP Project Director, Trone Center for Justice & Equality Director, and Senior Staff.
Assume responsibility for specified administrative functions such as gathering particular data for legal or development departments.
Assist the NPP Project Director and Co-Deputy Project Director with expense tracking and budgeting.
Engage in litigation in federal and state court, including drafting pleadings, briefs, and affidavits.
Serve as lead counsel or co-lead counsel on a substantial caseload of major class actions in federal court.
Conduct discovery and motion practice, handle hearings and trials, argue appeals in both federal and state courts.
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, cooperating attorneys, and others.
Lead and manage advocacy campaigns including developing and executing strategic goals and managing campaign advocacy, research, and public education efforts.
Conduct policy advocacy on prisoners’ and detainees’ rights, criminal justice, and immigration detention issues.
Develop new cases and non-litigation advocacy projects.
Travel as required for litigation, conferences, and case and strategy development.
Assist NPP Project Director and Co-Deputy Project Director with annual strategic planning and memoranda to Senior Staff.
Manage special projects.
Assist NPP Project Director and Co-Deputy Project Director in managing relationships and coordinating with other departments and external partners.
Work as part of a cross-project team with staff in the National Prison Project and Immigrants’ Rights Project on litigation and other advocacy to challenge immigration enforcement policies and practices.
Represent NPP in meetings with the National Political Advocacy Department, Communications, Digital, Development, and other departments.
Develop and maintain relationships with ACLU affiliates and other partners.
Assume responsibility for specific collaborative initiatives, issues, and/or relationships as directed.
Represent NPP / ACLU in public-facing meetings, speaking events, and media opportunities as relevant.

Requirements

J.D. degree and active State Bar membership.
Extensive experience in complex civil litigation matters in federal court, minimum of 10 years preferred.
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.
Demonstrated 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.
Demonstrated commitment to diversity within the office using a personal approach that values all individuals and respects differences in regard to race, ethnicity, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability and socio-economic circumstance.
Commitment to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and/or conflicts.
Fluency in Spanish or other languages commonly spoken by immigrant detainees preferred.
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.

Skills

Strategic planning
Fundraising
Supervision
Complex civil litigation
Legal research
Legal writing
Verbal communication
Legal analysis
Fact finding
Persuasive writing
Media relations
Teamwork
Diversity and inclusion
Collaboration
Conflict resolution
Spanish language proficiency
Campaign management
Criminal justice advocacy
Immigration law
Institutional reform

Location

Washington, D.C.
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

10+ years of experience in complex civil litigation matters in federal court preferred

Education Level

J.D. degree

Salary/Compensations

$229,096

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.
We take up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.
We know that great people make a great organization.
We value our people and know that what we offer is essential not just their work, but to their overall well-being.

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 a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability.
We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible.
We are as 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.