Deputy Project Director for Immigration Detention, National Prison Project

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ABOUT THE JOB

The ACLU seeks applicants for the full-time position of Deputy Project Director for Immigration Detention in the National Prison Project (NPP) of the ACLU’s National office in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, CA, or New York, NY. This is a hybrid role that has in-office requirements of two (2) days per week or eight (8) days per month.

The National Prison Project works to ensure that conditions in prisons, jails, juvenile detention centers, and immigration detention facilities comply with the Constitution, domestic law, and international human rights principles. NPP has successfully litigated on behalf of incarcerated and detained people in more than 25 states, and is the only organization litigating conditions of confinement cases nationwide. Our priorities include reducing overcrowding, improving health care, eliminating violence and maltreatment, and increasing oversight and accountability in prisons, jails, and other places of detention. We also work to reverse the policies that have given the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world and led to extreme over-representation of people of color in our country’s prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Reporting to the NPP Project Director , the Deputy Project Director for Immigration Detention will assist the Project Director in all aspects of management of the Project, including strategic planning, fundraising, and supervision of Project staff. This position will have a particular emphasis on challenging immigration detention conditions, the expansion of the immigration detention footprint, and the use and abuse of immigration detention in the federal government’s mass deportation system, and coordinating closely with counterparts in the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and ACLU affiliates across the country. The Deputy Project Director will lead complex civil rights litigation in state and federal court, and develop and lead integrated advocacy campaigns.

YOUR DAY TO DAY

STAFFING AND SUPERVISION

• Directly supervise specified staff attorneys, legal fellows, and/or administrative staff, including regular check-ins, approval of expense reports, and time off requests .
• Assist NPP Project Director, Co-Deputy 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
• 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

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thcare benefits (including medical, dental and vision coverage, parental leave, gender affirming care & fertility treatment)

• Plan for your retirement with 401k plan and employer match
• We support employee growth and development through annual professional development funds, internal professional development programs and workshops

OUR COMMITMENT TO ACCESSIBILITY, EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Accessibility, equity, diversity and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. For us diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion are not just check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term meaningful change. We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression, anti-ableism, and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we’re in the courts or in the office, we believe ‘We the People’ means all of us.

With this commitment in mind, we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online, please complete the Accommodation Request Form

If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.