Employment

The Brennan Center for Justice is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, which welcomes qualified applicants of all races, ethnicities, physical and mental abilities, genders, and sexual orientations, including people who have been previously incarcerated.

The Center offers competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We hope you will review the current job openings and encourage you to check this page regularly, as new positions are posted here first.

Current Openings

Counsel, Justice Program
Manager of Foundation Relations
George A. Katz Fellowship

 

Counsel, Justice Program 

Position: The Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law seeks an attorney for its Access to Justice Project to work on securing justice system reform. The attorney will run the Brennan Center’s Community Oriented Defender Project, working with defenders across the country to obtain racial justice and other reforms.  The attorney will also work on additional projects to improve the civil and criminal justice systems.  Activities may include advancing public policy campaigns, producing policy analyses, authoring reports, lobbying, litigating, and counseling.

Qualifications:  Applicants should possess excellent writing and oral communication skills.  Prior employment as a public defender or civil legal services attorney is a plus.  Litigation experience, public policy advocacy experience, and experience facilitating events are also valued.  Applicants must have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to represent the Brennan Center in a variety of public settings.

Salary:  Commensurate with experience.

Applications:  Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, and a decision will be made as soon as an appropriate candidate is identified.  Please send a cover letter, resume, two writing samples, and the contact information for three references to , with “Justice Counsel” in the subject line.

The Center:  The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Our work ranges from voting rights to redistricting reform, from access to the courts to presidential power in the fight against terrorism. A singular institution – part think tank, part public interest law firm, part advocacy group – the Brennan Center combines scholarship, legislative and legal advocacy, and communications to win meaningful, measurable change in the public sector. For more information, visit: http://www.brennancenter.org.
                   
The Brennan Center for Justice is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, which welcomes qualified applicants of all races, ethnicities, physical and mental abilities, genders, and sexual orientations, including people who have been previously incarcerated.

 

Manager of Foundation Relations

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law seeks a Manager of Foundation Relations. The Center currently has an $8 million budget and a portfolio of over $11,000,000 in grants from private and institutional donors. The position reports to the Director of Development and works closely with program staff and the Center’s executive director with the goal of maintaining and increasing funding from foundations and other institutional sources. As part of a 5-person team, the Manager will oversee and work to grow the portfolio drawing on a wide variety of institutional funders, while advancing democracy, improving access to legal justice for the poor and reforming the civil justice system. S/He also will play a significant role in other fundraising activities and strategic planning for this fast-paced and growing organization.

Responsibilities

  • Create proposals, reports, renewal requests, and other required documents for institutional donors, in partnership with program staff;
  • Manage the Center’s portfolio of institutional funders, including tracking a large pool of foundations in the prospect pipeline, maintaining a calendar of deadlines for proposals and reports and ensuring compliance with funding requirements;Conduct foundation stewardship efforts;
  • Identify and research potential funding sources in the foundation, corporate and government grant-making sectors;
  • Participate in regular financial progress meetings with program directors and provide grants revenue projections for the annual budgeting process;
  • Help prepare strategy documents and profiles for meetings with funders, senior staff and Board members, participating in meetings as needed;
  • Collaborate with the Director of Individual Giving, Director of Development, and program staff to create and implement fundraising strategies; and
  • Manage the Grant Writer.

Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have:

  • Superb writing and oral presentation skills;
  • Demonstrated ability to promote, orally and in writing, complex goals, strategies, and legal concepts in clear, accessible form and to create compelling cases for funding; 
  • Talent for creating compelling cases for funding and for developing relationships with key funders; 
  • Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines and projects while planning strategically for future efforts; 
  • Proficiency with budgets and financial reporting to donors;
  • Excellent diplomacy and teambuilding skills required to work well with colleagues at all levels and to assist in supervising junior staff; and a
  • Commitment to social justice and the mission and goals of the Brennan Center.

Prior grants management or grant writing experience required (at least 2-3 years); other fundraising experience, particularly in the social justice arena, a plus.

Salary:  The Center offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package.

The Center:  The Brennan Center for Justice is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Our work ranges from voting rights to redistricting reform, from access to the courts to presidential power in the fight against terrorism. For more information about the Center, visit our website: http://www.brennancenter.org. 

Applications:  Please send a cover letter, resume, and two relevant writing samples by e-mail to with “Manager of Foundation Relations” in the subject line. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and applicants are encouraged to respond as soon as possible.
                       
The Brennan Center for Justice is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, which welcomes qualified applicants of all races, ethnicities, physical and mental abilities, genders, and sexual orientations, including people who have been previously incarcerated.