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Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice and Equity
The American Constitution Society (ACS), one of the nation's leading progressive legal organizations, seeks an experienced, creative, and detail-oriented Director of Policy and Program to lead ACS’s Racial Justice and Equity efforts. The Racial Justice and Equity portfolio will focus on developing a comprehensive vision of the laws and legal systems that must be dismantled, rewritten, and reimagined to address systemic and institutional racism and pursue racial justice and equity. The Director will work closely with other members of the Policy and Program Department to coordinate a unified, intersectional, and strategically coherent vision for ACS’s racial justice and equity work. The position may be responsible for additional, related substantive portfolios based on experience and interest.
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The American Constitution Society (ACS), one of the nation's leading progressive legal organizations, seeks an experienced, creative, and detail-oriented Director of Policy and Program to lead ACS’s Economic Justice efforts. The Economic Justice portfolio focuses on workers’ rights and economic opportunity, as well as the environment and technology law, and seeks to develop a comprehensive vision of the role the law plays in ameliorating economic inequality and the role of regulation in our society. The Director will work closely with other members of the Policy and Program Department to coordinate a unified, intersectional, and strategically coherent vision for ACS’s economic justice and administrative law work. The position Director Notice - Economic Justice may be responsible for additional, substantive portfolios based on experience and interest.
Read MoreDatabase Associate
The American Constitution Society (ACS) believes that our laws and legal systems should be forces to improve and protect the lives of all people. ACS works for progressive legal reform by shaping debate on our most pressing legal and constitutional challenges; with our nationwide network of lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, activists, and policymakers dedicated to those ideas; and by countering the activist conservative legal movement that has sought to erode our enduring constitutional values and rights. ACS is looking for a highly organized and skilled Database Associate. This position would report to the IT Director, and is currently offered as fully remote; however, it will be required of the employee to attend ACS in-person events (minimum of two per year).
Read MoreAdministration Associate
The American Constitution Society (ACS) believes that our laws and legal systems should be forces to improve and protect the lives of all people. ACS works for progressive legal reform by shaping debate on our most pressing legal and constitutional challenges; with our nationwide network of lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, activists, and policymakers dedicated to those ideas; and by countering the activist conservative legal movement that has sought to erode our enduring constitutional values and rights. ACS is hiring a full time Administration Associate. The ACS Administration Associate will work with the Administration Senior Associate, Assistant Director of Administration and Director of Finance to perform a wide variety of tasks including, but not limited to providing administrative support across all ACS departments, with a particular focus on supporting the Administration department, working on a cross-departmental team responsible for maintaining ACS’s Salesforce database, preparing Continuing Legal Education (CLE) documentation for ACS-hosted events, providing staff support at ACS events held in Washington, DC, creating and maintaining an ongoing and organized record of donations received, coordinating with other departments regarding basic finance operations, serving as initial point of contact for lawyers, judges, professors, and other members of the public contacting the organization via email or voicemail as well as assisting with vendors and payment processes, maintaining department files and processing incoming mail.
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