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Feb 09, 2026  
Legal Director Featured
$105,000 - $110,000 yearly
The Opportunity The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee (ACLU-TN) seeks a dynamic and visionary legal director to lead ACLU-TN’s legal department in advancing and shaping the civil rights and civil liberties landscape in Tennessee. The legal director is responsible for leading the organization’s legal program, which includes building a robust docket, ensuring that it advances the ACLU’s strategic priorities, and collaborating with local, state and national partners in our shared pursuit of fairness, freedom, justice and equity. ACLU-TN, the state affiliate of the national American Civil Liberties Union, is a private, non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization dedicated to defending and advancing civil liberties and civil rights through advocacy, coalition-building, litigation, legislative lobbying, community mobilization, and public education. In the wake of daily assaults on civil liberties and civil rights, ACLU-TN is embarking on its most ambitious...
Hiring Organization:
American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee

ACLU of Tennessee Hybrid (Nashville, TN, USA) Full-Time
Feb 05, 2026  
Chief Executive Officer, Virginia Beach SPCA Featured
$170,000 yearly
Position : Chief Executive Officer  Department Executive  Reports To : Board Of Directors  Status : Exempt; Full-Time Compensation : $170,000 This role is onsite, in-person, five days per week with evening and weekend events and responsibilities as needed. ABOUT THE VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA (VBSPCA): At the Virginia Beach SPCA (VBSPCA), we believe that human compassion is critical to the elimination of animal suffering. Through shelter operations and adoptions, income based public veterinary clinic services, educational programs, wildlife triage, and numerous animal welfare partnerships, the VBSPCA strives to create a more humane and responsible community. Our mission is to eliminate animal suffering and increase human compassion. VBSPCA CULTURE AND VALUES STATEMENT: At VBSPCA, we believe in the value of all living creatures and that the animal-human bond creates healthier, happier, more connected communities. We believe that a...
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Virginia Beach Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (VBSPCA)

LeaderFit Virginia Beach, VA, USA Full-Time
Feb 03, 2026  
Hope Strategist (Board member) Featured
Hope for Single Moms is seeking Hope Strategists to serve in a board governance role, providing strategic leadership, oversight, and advocacy during a season of organizational growth. Hope Strategists help advance our mission to empower motherhood, remove systemic barriers, and create pathways to financial stability for single-mother families. Responsibilities include guiding organizational strategy, supporting financial sustainability, serving as ambassadors in the community, and contributing expertise to committees such as governance, finance, fundraising, or programs. Board service includes approximately nine virtual monthly meetings, two in-person meetings per year, and one annual four-hour strategic planning session. Hope Strategists play a key role in strengthening systems that support long-term impact for mothers and improved outcomes for their children.
Hiring Organization:
Hope for Single Moms

Hope for Single Moms Hybrid (Grand Rapids, MI, USA) Board Member
Feb 02, 2026  
Executive Director Featured
$85,000 - $110,000 yearly
The Granite State Organizing Project (GSOP), New Hampshire’s largest and most diverse statewide community organizing organization, is seeking an Executive Director to lead the organization’s work to strengthen communities and make concrete change in the lives of Granite Staters. GSOP strives to create communities where residents have a voice on issues like the high cost of housing and health care, unjust working conditions, challenges facing immigrants and youth, and more. The Executive Director will partner with the Deputy Director to lead our passionate team of staff, build a strong culture of organizing across our regional chapters and youth, clergy, and immigrant constituency chapters, and drive the strategic direction of campaigns. The Executive Director will also manage the day-to-day programs and operations and raise the funds needed to sustain and grow the operation.   More on Granite State Organizing Project GSOP was founded in 2002 by religious congregations,...
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Granite State Organizing Project

Granite State Organizing Project Manchester, NH, USA Full-Time
Dec 12, 2025  
Executive Director Featured
$240,000 - $270,000 yearly
Carter Burden Network  seeks a collaborative, experienced and innovative Executive Director to advance the organization as it tackles the increasing needs of a growing client population. Known for its unwavering commitment to its clients, the Carter Burden Network (CBN) has been a trusted resource for older New Yorkers for 54 years. Founded in 1971 by former New York City Council Member Carter Burden, the organization began as a one-person effort serving older adults within a single council district and has since expanded into a network of 11 initiatives across seven locations, supporting approximately 6,500 older adults each year. Throughout its history, CBN has responded to changing needs with creativity and heart, ensuring that older adults experience dignity and belonging. The Executive Director will build upon this legacy to advance this distinguished and trusted institution. Older adults are one of the fastest-growing populations in the country, and one of the most...
Hiring Organization:
Carter Burden Network

Brettschneider Executive Search New York, NY, USA Full-Time
Mar 05, 2026  
Attorney, Housing & Consumer Justice
$77,913 - $101,287 yearly
About the Legal Aid Justice Center: The Legal Aid Justice Center is a nationally recognized, non-profit organization that partners with low-income clients and communities of color in Virginia to fight for racial, social, and economic justice. We understand that the harms our clients endure are inextricably linked to overarching systems of injustice. Together we are dismantling those systems through a combination of community organizing, litigation, policy advocacy, public relations, and individual legal services.   Founded in 1967, LAJC has offices in Charlottesville, Richmond, Petersburg, and Falls Church and provides services under six key program areas: Civil Rights & Racial Justice (focuses on the criminal legal system), Housing & Consumer Justice, Youth Justice, Health Justice & Public Benefits, Immigrant Justice, and Worker Justice. As examples of LAJC’s recent work, our lawsuit and organizing against the state forced reform of Virginia’s...
Hiring Organization:
Legal Aid Justice Center

Legal Aid Justice Center Falls Church, VA, USA Full-Time
Feb 20, 2026  
Manager, Labor and Employee Relations
$80,000 - $95,000 yearly
PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a labor and employee relations manager to support the Human Resources department. This position will play a central role in administering collective bargaining agreements, supporting managers and employees on labor-related matters, and ensuring compliance with applicable labor laws and organizational policies. This is a full-time position based in PEN America’s New York City headquarters and reports to the director, human resources. The labor and employee relations manager will work closely with the director and senior manager of human resources, organizational leadership, and outside counsel to manage grievance processes, arbitration matters, and other labor relations issues. The manager will provide management with proper guidance on labor relations best practices, ensuring legal and contractual compliance with organizational policies. The ideal candidate will bring strong...
Hiring Organization:
PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time
Feb 20, 2026  
Director, Human Resources
$135,000 - $170,000 yearly
  PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a director of Human Resources to lead and strengthen all aspects of the organization’s people operations and strategy. This senior position will support executive leadership in recruiting, retaining, and developing a diverse and mission-driven workforce equipped to advance PEN America’s work defending and celebrating free expression. This is a full-time position based in PEN America’s New York City headquarters and reports to the Chief Operating Officer. The director of human resources will work closely with the Co-CEOs and senior leadership team to develop and implement human resources strategies aligned with organizational goals. The director will oversee talent acquisition, performance management, employee relations, compliance, labor relations, and organizational development, while ensuring that policies, practices, and systems support consistency and...
Hiring Organization:
PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time
Feb 13, 2026  
Financial Analyst and Accountant
$70,000 - $75,000 yearly
PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks an analytical and detail-oriented financial analyst and accountant to work as a member of the Finance team within the Operations department. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters and reports to the Managing Director of Finance and Administration. The financial analyst and accountant will support organizational planning, accounting, and administration. This individual will serve as a liaison between PEN America and its third-party accounting firm: directly make payments and process income in coordination with the accounting firm; support budget creation and tracking; assist with other accounting as needed; help manage subscriptions to such resources as software; and perform financial analyses. The position will process significant data and create easily understandable representations of organizational performance. The role...
Hiring Organization:
PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time
Feb 03, 2026  
Executive Director
$90,000 - $12,000 yearly
Who we are Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts an innovative not-for-profit research and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing a fair, accessible, and equitable court system in Illinois through collaborative, evidence-based solutions. Our focus areas are court transparency, decarceration and diversion, community autonomy, and economic accessibility. For nearly 30 years, we have fearlessly tackled systemic inequities in the courts—exposing flaws, fighting for transformative reform, and winning lasting changes that make the system work better for everyone. Our impact speaks for itself: 1.      Co-led the successful campaign to end money bond in Illinois with the Pretrial Fairness Act. 2.      Pioneered court-watching programs and data-driven reports that have reshaped pretrial court practices and reduced incarceration. 3.      Secured landmark policy wins on compassionate release, court fines and fees, eviction, diversion, and more. 4....
Hiring Organization:
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts

Allegra Consulting Hybrid (Chicago, IL, USA) Full-Time
Jan 27, 2026  
Legal Director
$145,000 - $170,000 yearly
PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a motivated senior attorney with experience developing and litigating First Amendment and related free expression cases to serve as Legal Director. The Legal Director will play a leading role in developing PEN America’s legal advocacy program, working in collaboration with program team leaders to create and implement strategic goals. They will direct and oversee PEN America’s use of litigation as an important advocacy tool, particularly where the organization has a unique value-add and can have impact. They will direct the litigation docket, while also advising and counseling the organization on the laws and policies relevant to its broader free expression work. The Legal Director will supervise a small staff, currently consisting of one staff attorney, with the potential to add a legal fellow. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters and...
Hiring Organization:
PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (Washington, DC, USA) Full-Time
Jan 08, 2026  
Manager, Policy and Government Affairs
$75,000 - $85,000 yearly
PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks an experienced policy and government affairs manager to work in our Government Affairs team. This is a full-time, union-eligible position based in Washington, D.C. and reports to the Director, Government Affairs.  The policy and government affairs manager will play an integral role in PEN America’s work on policy and government affairs at the federal level in Washington, D.C. In this varied role, the manager will track and analyze policy developments and legislation at the federal level, manage relationships with those inside and outside government, engage in various writing tasks, and support the functioning of the Government Affairs team in D.C. overall, including administrative tasks and covering policy events and meetings. This role will entail both domestic policy issues relating to free expression with a focus on educational policy as well as international issues...
Hiring Organization:
PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (Washington, DC, USA) Full-Time
Dec 23, 2025  
Director, PEN America Los Angeles
$130,000 - $160,000 yearly
PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a forward-thinking, innovative director to lead the PEN America office in Los Angeles. The director will build the programming, public profile, partnerships and funding to advance PEN America’s mission in the greater Los Angeles area and throughout California, drawing on PEN America ’s established expertise and national staff. This exciting role requires an entrepreneurial approach, the ability to engage and serve a wide range of writers  and screenwriters, as well as members of the larger literary and publishing community, and the film and television industry. The director will execute programming and other initiatives that amplify PEN America’s core mission of celebrating literature and defending free expression advocacy and literary activism, and represent PEN America in a wide range of settings. This is a full-time position based in Los Angeles and reports to the...
Hiring Organization:
PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (Los Angeles, CA, USA) Full-Time
Dec 22, 2025  
Legal Director
$145,000 - $170,000 yearly
PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a motivated senior attorney with experience developing and litigating First Amendment and related free expression cases to serve as Legal Director. The Legal Director will play a leading role in developing PEN America’s legal advocacy program, working in collaboration with program team leaders to create and implement strategic goals. They will direct and oversee PEN America’s use of litigation as an important advocacy tool, particularly where the organization has a unique value-add and can have impact. They will direct the litigation docket, while also advising and counseling the organization on the laws and policies relevant to its broader free expression work. The Legal Director will supervise a small staff, currently consisting of one staff attorney, with the potential to add a legal fellow. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters and...
Hiring Organization:
PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time
Dec 11, 2025  
Program Assistant, PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center
$55,000 - $65,000 yearly
PEN America, a growing nonprofit organization that stands at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a program assistant to support the day-to-day operations of the Freedom to Write Center and Kronika. This is a full-time, union-eligible position based in New York and reports to the Managing Director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center. This early-career position offers a significant opportunity for professional growth in a role that will expose the incumbent to all aspects of PEN America’s international work. Ideal for a motivated entry-level professional who is passionate about literature, human rights, and freedom of expression, this role will support a growing team by providing administrative and logistical support. The successful candidate will be committed to PEN America’s mission as a human rights and free expression organization and be passionate about supporting writers at risk and protecting endangered materials. The successful candidate...
Hiring Organization:
PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time
Dec 11, 2025  
Financial Analyst and Accountant
$70,000 - $75,000 yearly
PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks an analytical and detail-oriented financial analyst and accountant to work as a member of the Finance team within the Operations department. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters and reports to the Managing Director of Finance and Administration. The financial analyst and accountant will support organizational planning, accounting, and administration. This individual will serve as a liaison between PEN America and its third-party accounting firm: directly make payments and process income in coordination with the accounting firm; support budget creation and tracking; assist with other accounting as needed; help manage subscriptions to such resources as software; and perform financial analyses. The position will process significant data and create easily understandable representations of organizational performance. The role...
Hiring Organization:
PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time