Overview
This role is for a Senior Staff Attorney with the legal and policy team supporting local elected officials across the U.S. The position is remote, with no in-office requirement.
This attorney will provide legal, policy, and research support with particular emphasis on immigrant justice, economic justice and worker power, reimagining public safety, home rule and local democracy, and advancing housing justice for all. The Senior Staff Attorney reports to the Managing Director, Legal and Policy.
Responsibilities
Legal and Policy
- Produce, edit, and review legal memos, amicus briefs, and other legal documents; manage and oversee production of such documents by partners.
- Lead development of resources that enable members to take action across the full diversity of the network, test and popularize bold policy ideas, and model collaborative governance, including policy briefs, campaign toolkits, template resolutions, and training curricula.
- Engage with staff, members, and partners to assess and advise on policy and legal questions, including performing research and policy analysis to respond to questions in rapid-response situations.
Issue Area Programming (Immigrant Justice)
- Serve as the expert and lead strategist for the organization’s work on immigrant justice.
- Envision, plan, and implement program offerings to advance immigrant justice, both in-person and virtual.
- Staff the Immigrant Justice Steering Committee comprised of Local Progress members and develop the leadership of Steering Committee members.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with external partners on immigrant justice.
- Provide additional issue area policy leadership as needed, including potentially land use, procurement, legal authority of counties, and first amendment/democracy protections.
Support Across Programs and Infrastructure
- Collaborate across organizational teams to support activities and infrastructure, including caucus work, state chapter activities, Collaborative Governance Academy trainings, reports, convenings, and web products.
- Play a supporting role in maintaining funder relationships and identifying new opportunities for expanding support.
Requirements
- Juris doctor degree and admission to a state bar.
- At least 9 years of relevant policy or legal experience, including at least 4 years working on immigrant justice issues via policy, organizing, direct legal representation, impact litigation, etc.
- Experience with organizing and campaigns, including working with organizers or movement lawyering.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey and translate complex information for a variety of audiences.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, create and execute work plans, anticipate obstacles and identify ways to navigate challenges, and identify and involve stakeholders appropriately.
- Awareness of and ability to address issues of power, race, class, gender, and other forms of privilege within internal workplace dynamics and culture.
- Demonstrated commitment to social, racial, and economic justice and interest in local policy, politics, and government.
- Experience in relational organizing and ability to relate to and move to action a diverse group of people from a variety of local contexts and backgrounds, including in a virtual setting.
- Ability to take initiative and exercise strategic judgment.
- Ability to travel monthly.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with “inside/outside” strategies and movement governance that features deep partnership between “outside” organizing and “inside” elected officials.
- Litigation experience.
- Familiarity with core municipal authorities including land use, zoning, and procurement.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary will be determined according to a salary scale based on years of experience and advanced degrees, and will be between $108,600 and $111,000.
- This position is included in a union-represented collective bargaining unit, and specific terms and conditions of employment will be subject to a collective bargaining agreement. With a collectively bargained salary scale, it is not possible to negotiate once a salary offer is calculated based on the factors used for placement on the scale.
- Default schedule: Monday through Thursday.
- Benefits include:
- Health insurance, dental insurance, and vision insurance
- Five weeks of vacation per year
- 20 sick days per year
- Paid holidays
- Contributions to individuals’ 403(b) plans
- The office is closed between December 24 and January 1 annually.
Location and Travel
- Remote position based in the U.S. with no in-office requirement.
- Travel requirement: up to six days a month to in-person events.
Application Timeline
- Applicants will be screened on a rolling basis.
- Recommended application by October 9, 2026 for an anticipated start date of January 19, 2027.
Equal Employment Opportunity
This employer is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and actively recruits people of color, womxn, individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTIQAA+ community.