Senior Adviser

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Senior Adviser

RESPONSIBILITIES: Provide strategic thought partnership to affiliate leaders who are strengthening their Legal Departments’ capacity, competencies, and skills. Support the union affiliate Executive Directors in the hiring and onboarding of new Legal Directors. Contribute to the development of evaluative tools and fair measures of capacity and success of legal programs, including regular debriefing for sharing across the nationwide network. Help Legal Directors build legal programs and navigate the cooperating attorney relationship. Create curriculum that centers best practices for building and executing powerful and integrated affiliate legal programs to be shared throughout the nationwide enterprise. Create and sustain learning communities for the union affiliate legal staff, which includes managing ongoing cohorts, hosting in-person convenings, and developing regular workshops focused on topics and/or skills critical to the growth, administration, and impact of legal programs at the union. Ensure information and learnings generated by affiliate legal departments are institutionalized in ASNI to help maximize the opportunity for cross-affiliate learning and efficiencies. Identify and leverage technologies and operational efficiencies to further affiliate legal programs. Lead collaborative efforts between and among national and affiliate offices to ensure synergy and alignment of legal priorities, strategies, and tactics across the nationwide organization. Work with Legal Directors and legal staff to assess affiliate capacity in legal department leadership, program, and management, to develop a baseline understanding of activity and helping affiliates set goals, plan, and drive strategic work. Monitor and create powerful state-based narratives and replicate successful strategies by sharing state successes, highlighting best practices and areas of innovation and high impact. Identify, develop, and promote models of integrated advocacy across communications, legal, and advocacy programs in affiliates. Advise on grants to affiliates from the national office and new programmatic initiatives. Support a culture of transparency by proactively sharing information while using discernment to protect confidentiality of employee relations and other complex matters. Support innovative practices that will build a talent pipeline in the union. Ensure positive and clear lines of communication that promote programmatic alignment and a culture of trust. Facilitate, coordinate, and ensure team-to-team connectivity within ASNI and with other national departments, help problem solve if affiliate needs are not sufficiently prioritized, and be an ambassador for ASNI with national staff. Regular travel is required.

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American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street
New York
New York
United States 10004
Website : http://www.aclu.org