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Advocacy/Social Action Full-Time executive director

10 executive director jobs found

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
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....
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Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts

Allegra Consulting Hybrid (Chicago, IL, USA) Full-Time
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...
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American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee

ACLU of Tennessee Hybrid (Nashville, TN, USA) Full-Time
Mar 12, 2026  
Director of Finance and Operations
$105,000 - $120,000 yearly
The Opportunity   Reporting to the Executive Director and serving on the MAC leadership team, the Director of Finance and Operations is a newly created senior leadership role that powers the systems, practices, and culture behind our mission. This position brings together financial stewardship and operational leadership, and serving as MAC's internal anchor for both day-to-day organizational health and longer-term sustainability planning.  You will be the Executive Director’s primary thought partner on finance and operations, managing the relationship with MAC's outsourced accounting firm, leading the annual budget process, and ensuring that our technology, facilities, HR administration, and internal systems all run with clarity and care. MAC is at an exciting moment of growth, having just moved to a new office with a strong, diverse, and motivated team deeply committed to our mission.  We are looking for someone who has done this work before and is ready to step in and...
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Massachusetts Advocates for Children

Massachusetts Advocates for Children Hybrid (Boston, MA, 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 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...
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PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, 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...
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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...
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PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (Washington, DC, 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...
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PEN America

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, 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