Jobs at American Civil Liberties Union

Coordinates the Program and Strategy Team’s meetings, workshops, events, affiliate visits, communications, resources, budgets, procurement, data collection, evaluation, grants, and reporting. Supports scheduling and expenses for senior leadership, maintains planning and tracking processes, facilitates collaboration across teams and affiliates, and contributes to program development, organizational effectiveness, and special initiatives.

Design and implement scalable enterprise data architectures and models, lead data governance and privacy/compliance efforts, guide migration of fundraising CRM, provide technical leadership to data engineering teams, improve data quality and reliability, document architectures, and occasionally perform hands-on data engineering using Python, SQL, dbt, and Dagster.

The Senior Content Strategist will lead YouTube strategy development and execution, create platform-specific content, and manage partnerships to enhance ACLU's communications goals.

The Paralegal will support the Immigrants' Rights Project by preparing litigation documents, managing case files, conducting research, and assisting with administrative duties.

Lead web channel strategy and UX-driven content for omni-channel campaigns. Manage a Digital Producer, coordinate with internal teams and vendors, produce and administer CMS content, oversee project schedules, track analytics, and scale web communications and processes to drive advocacy, fundraising, and engagement goals.

Develop and pursue impact litigation and advocacy challenging abusive criminal-law practices and policing. Draft pleadings and briefs, lead discovery, hearings, trials and appeals, advise affiliates and partners, support policy and communications, mentor junior staff, and collaborate across ACLU departments to advance criminal and racial justice.

The Karpatkin Fellowship seeks a J.D. graduate to support the ACLU's Racial Justice Program by conducting legal research, drafting documents, and contributing to litigation efforts over two years.

The Fellow will support litigation and advocacy concerning freedom of religion and belief, conducting legal research and managing projects while upholding ACLU's mission.

Lead development, incubation, and implementation of organizational strategies. Facilitate senior-level strategic planning, drive evidence-based monitoring and learning, manage large cross-functional initiatives, create frameworks and change communications, and promote innovative pilots to advance the ACLU’s 2030 Strategy across departments.

Lead impact litigation and advocacy on immigrants' rights, handling federal court cases, legal research and writing, discovery and motions, client and partner coordination, policy advocacy, public speaking, supervision of paralegals/interns, and rapid-response efforts to immigration enforcement events.

The legal fellow will conduct legal research, draft legal documents, engage with clients, support ACLU affiliates, manage interns, and promote public education on reproductive rights.

Lead large, complex internal advocacy projects across issue areas; design tracking systems; manage communications, budgets, and stakeholder collaboration; draft and edit materials; serve as strategic partner to senior leadership; adapt priorities, solve problems, and support special projects with occasional travel and nontraditional hours.

Own end-to-end product design for ACLU national and affiliate websites. Use quantitative and qualitative data, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mocks. Collaborate with PMs and engineers, spec designs for implementation, lead accessibility UAT/QA, contribute to the design system, present and defend design decisions, and mentor interns.

The Regional Campaign Strategist will develop and execute campaign strategies, collaborate with affiliates, track progress, and handle multiple tasks while adhering to ACLU's values of equity and inclusion.

The Director of Strategic Communications will design and implement integrated communications strategies, manage strategists, and collaborate across teams to advance ACLU's mission in various civil rights areas.

The Senior Accountant oversees tax and pension benefit areas, ensuring compliance, accuracy in reporting, managing audits, and supporting financial decision-making processes.

The Senior Campaign Lead manages the ACLU's political agenda in democracy, leads campaign strategy, develops priorities, and advises on complex campaigns.

The Technical Project Manager will oversee the implementation of systems and processes, collaborating with various staff for project management, risk assessment, and stakeholder communication in a hybrid role.

The Senior Advisor, Affiliate Strategic Planning strengthens strategic planning across the ACLU, advises affiliates on planning processes, and ensures alignment with national priorities while supporting affiliates' autonomy and institutional resilience.

Provide administrative, logistical, and operational support to Privacy & Data Governance and Office of Corporate Counsel. Manage scheduling, meeting logistics, documentation, vendor/procurement tasks, triage support queues, maintain records, research privacy trends and regulations, and support priority projects while handling sensitive, confidential information.