Deputy Project Director

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Deputy Project Director, National Prison Project
RESPONSIBILITIES: Strategy, Cross-Departmental Collaboration, and Integrated Advocacy. Assist Project Director with annual strategic planning and memoranda to senior staff. Manage special projects. Assist Project Director in managing relationships and coordinating with other departments and external partners, for example: Represent on a standing, rotating, and/or as-needed basis in meetings with NPAD, Communications, Digital, Development, and other departments and partners. Develop and maintain relationships with state affiliates and other partners. Assume responsibility for specific collaborative initiatives, issues, and/or relationships as directed. Represent project / in public-facing meetings / speaking events / media opportunities as relevant. Administration. Assume responsibility for specified administrative functions such as completion of the time survey; gathering particular data for legal or development departments; and ensuring accuracy of case database, among other work, as directed. Assist the Project Director with expense tracking and budgeting, as directed. Readiness to align with management, including collaborating with and sharing ownership of decisions made by the Project Director, Center Director, and Senior Staff. Staffing. Directly supervise specified staff attorneys, Legal fellows, and/or administrative staff, including regular check-ins, approval of expense reports, and time off. With an eye on developing and maintaining an excellent and diverse staff, collaborate with other members of management team to: Improve process for hiring, onboarding, and managing new staff, fellows, and interns, which includes recruiting excellent candidates and furthering our board-mandated goal to increase the percentage of staff with disabilities and significant disabilities and to work in furtherance of our other announced diversity hiring initiatives. Oversee sustained efforts to create and nurture pools of diverse candidates from which to recruit. Assist 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. 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, working closely with other staff attorneys and local counsel. 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 local the union affiliates, cooperating attorneys and others who seek assistance from the Project. 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’ 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.

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