Jobs at Alliance Defending Freedom

Leads Alliance Defending Freedom’s public relations, media relations, reputation management, crisis communications, and external messaging strategy. Directs multidisciplinary communications teams, builds relationships with national media and stakeholders, guides Supreme Court advocacy communications, coaches executives and spokespeople, measures communications impact, and manages high-profile legal and public issues. The role also oversees digital presence and integrates owned, earned, and internal communications to advance organizational priorities.

Leads planning and execution of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship’s summer program and alumni educational offerings. Oversees logistics, agendas, venues, technology, communications, budgets, event management, evaluation, stakeholder engagement, and a Program Coordinator. Collaborates with internal teams, faculty, Fellows, interns, and vendors to deliver impactful educational events aligned with organizational mission.

Leads full-cycle talent acquisition for complex and high-visibility roles, including legal and senior leadership positions. Responsibilities include sourcing, screening, interviewing, stakeholder advising, compensation negotiation, background and reference checks, candidate experience management, ATS record maintenance, employer brand promotion, process improvement, and mentoring recruiting team members.

Evaluate and lead strategic litigation protecting the constitutional rights of churches, Christian ministries, and religious schools. Responsibilities include legal research, client and witness interviews, written discovery, depositions, case strategy, courtroom and administrative-agency representation, legal interpretation, and advising allied attorneys.

Conduct complex litigation, including legal research, discovery, depositions, court and agency representation, and client and witness interviews. Advise colleagues and allied attorneys, review contracts, engage with media and development teams, and mentor junior attorneys. Requires a J.D., active state bar license, and at least one year of complex litigation experience; trial experience is preferred.

Leads enterprise-wide talent development, including learning strategy, curriculum design, leadership development, succession planning, onboarding, engagement initiatives, and LMS optimization. Advises senior leadership, measures learning impact, manages vendors and budgets, and leads the Talent Development team. The role integrates adult learning methodology, organizational psychology, Christian values, and mission-driven culture development while building scalable programs and internal leadership pipelines.

Litigate conscience-related cases by researching matters, interviewing clients and witnesses, drafting court filings, handling discovery and depositions, and representing clients in court or before agencies. The role also supports public advocacy through media interviews, speaking engagements, attorney preparation, communications strategy, document review, ally coordination, contract review, and legal advice. Requires a J.D., active state bar license, and at least one year of complex litigation experience.

Own audience growth programs that increase awareness, engage prospective donors, and drive first gifts. Responsibilities include managing marketing contracts and vendors, analyzing campaign and audience data, developing optimization recommendations, coordinating campaign schedules and deliverables, writing marketing briefs, tracking budgets and spend, and partnering cross-functionally with project, operations, data, and external agency teams.

Litigate constitutional and civil cases supporting pro-life laws, unborn children, mothers, and pro-life advocates. Responsibilities include legal research, client and witness interviews, drafting court filings, discovery, depositions, court appearances, appeals, contract review, legal advising, attorney networking, and media interaction.

Provides legal counsel on federal legislation and public policy across free speech, religious liberty, parental rights, sanctity of life, and family issues. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing legislation, drafting policies, developing advocacy strategies, preparing reports and testimony, and engaging Congressional offices, government officials, media, and policy allies. The role also coordinates internal experts, advocates for organizational priorities, and travels to educate lawmakers.

Manage the annual organizational budgeting process, consolidate departmental budgets, establish spending controls, and support approval workflows. Partner with department leaders to monitor budgets, explain variances, improve financial literacy, and guide workforce planning. Track headcount and personnel costs, prepare recurring budget-to-actual reports and dashboards, identify emerging risks, maintain reporting templates, and support month-end close activities in collaboration with Accounting and FP&A.

Lead complex parental-rights litigation, representing parents and children in court. Develop case strategy, arguments, testimony, briefs, motions, and memoranda; conduct legal research, fact and expert discovery, and depositions. Advise allied attorneys, engage with media, build relationships with legal partners, and support development events and speaking engagements.

Provides legal counsel on federal and state legislation and public policy affecting constitutional and social issues. Responsibilities include drafting legislation, monitoring and analyzing bills, researching court precedent, preparing policy materials, testifying and presenting to officials, engaging policy allies, public speaking, and extensive travel during legislative sessions.

Develops speeches, op-eds, briefing documents, presentations, statements, and other executive communications for senior leaders. Coordinates research and information gathering for leadership, board, donor, and stakeholder reports. Creates messaging tailored to specific audiences, maintains speech and presentation content libraries, and collaborates with communications teams on strategic messaging. Requires strong writing, editing, strategic thinking, project management, confidentiality, and executive communications experience.

Provides legal and policy counsel on government affairs, builds relationships with state attorneys general and federal officials, coordinates litigation and multistate amicus opportunities, monitors legal developments, represents ADF at coalition events, and manages special projects involving legal analysis and political awareness.

Supports litigation attorneys by researching and drafting legal documents, filing electronically in federal and state courts, managing case files and deadlines, preparing discovery, depositions, trial materials, and exhibits, monitoring court dockets, reviewing eDiscovery, and cite-checking briefs under Bluebook and court rules. The role requires independent management of a heavy litigation caseload, confidential information, and occasional supervision of legal administrative assistants.

Leads Alliance Defending Freedom’s U.S. Government Affairs team and develops federal and state legislative, executive-branch, and lobbying strategies. Oversees senior leaders and government relations directors, builds relationships with lawmakers and officials, develops legislation and testimony, testifies publicly, represents the organization in media, and coordinates with legal, communications, and development teams. Requires a law degree, active state bar license, extensive legislative or executive-branch experience, attorney management experience, and up to 30% travel.

Supports HR business partners across the employee lifecycle by administering HRIS transactions, maintaining confidential records, coordinating meetings, managing HR inquiries, preparing reports and employee relations documentation, supporting HR programs and compliance initiatives, and assisting with HR tools, audits, service requests, and process improvements.

Senior Counsel leads complex constitutional litigation protecting unborn babies, mothers, pro-life advocates, and related state laws. Responsibilities include developing litigation strategy, drafting court filings, arguing motions and appeals, conducting discovery and depositions, researching novel legal issues, advising allied attorneys, mentoring junior lawyers, and participating in media, speaking, and relationship-building activities.

Leads Alliance Defending Freedom’s organic social media strategy across major platforms, overseeing content quality, publishing, engagement, analytics, budget, agency and creator partnerships. Builds and develops an in-house social media team, manages platform strategy and performance reporting, and collaborates with Creative Services, Digital Advertising, and Communications. The role requires strong knowledge of social algorithms, audience growth, rapid-response content, marketing funnels, and KPI-driven decision-making.