Author: Laura Henrich

This position will be based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or Washington, D.C. FIRE operates on a hybrid work schedule that allows for a mix of in-the-office and remote work for eligible employees.

About FIRE 

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought — the most essential qualities of liberty. FIRE educates Americans about the importance of these inalienable rights, promotes a culture of respect for these rights, and provides the means to preserve them.

Position Description 

FIRE is seeking a Director of Content with 10 or more years of experience to oversee and execute a cohesive editorial strategy that tells FIRE’s story across media platforms and galvanizes more Americans to join our fast-growing free speech movement. The Director of Content supervises the in-house creative, social media, and editorial teams, while also collaborating with teams across FIRE, specifically our Litigation, Rapid Response, Public Advocacy, and Campus Rights Advocacy teams.

1. Developing and implementing a comprehensive and cohesive multimedia strategy that tells FIRE’s story across multiple channels.
2. Managing, mentoring, and motivating the in-house creative, social media, and editorial teams to ensure FIRE produces top-notch content, including articles, social media, graphics, and video.
3. Collaborating closely with the organization’s Creative team, Digital Editor-in-Chief, and Digital Communications Strategist to identify fresh content ideas and new trends that the public is thirsty for, propelling FIRE’s mission, and growing FIRE’s audiences across different platforms and executing on those ideas and trends.
4. Leading weekly content meetings to determine what to produce each week as well as to discuss larger projects that require cross-team and cross-department coordination and collaboration.
5. Supervising editorial, social, and video content calendars to ensure the proper coordination and cadence of content on FIRE’s website and across its social media channels.
6. Setting comprehensive goals for performance and growth of the content across platforms.
7. Monitoring relevant performance metrics across platforms and adjusting strategy to focus on what works to meet or exceed relevant key performance indicators.
8. Managing vendor relationships and contracts as well as finding and managing new vendors to assist in producing content for FIRE’s website and social media channels.
9. Finding and onboarding software and other tools to increase the efficiency and speed of creating and publishing content on FIRE’s website and across its social media channels.

This position involves occasional travel. Moderate work on weekends and evenings should be expected.

The expected start date for this position is as soon as possible.

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Organization Overview:

For over 35 years, the Legal Clinic for the Disabled (LCD) has worked to empower low-income people with disabilities and the deaf and hard of hearing in the Philadelphia region by providing free legal representation to overcome legal obstacles that would otherwise affect clients’ independence, health, or quality of life. LCD is headquartered in Center City, and our practice areas include family, housing, planning documents, public benefits, and social security law. Through LCD’s Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative, staff work directly with medical partners at multiple sites across Philadelphia, and through our Housing Initiative, LCD actively participates in the Philadelphia Eviction Prevention Project. Additionally, we conduct general telephone intake and hold Community Legal Outreach Clinics. Last year alone, LCD served over 1,900 clients and more than 2,000 additional household members, furthering our mission to foster inclusion, independence, and justice for all.

Position Overview:

The Legal Director reports to the Executive Director (ED) and is responsible for working with the ED to provide leadership to ensure that LCD achieves its overall mission and annual objectives. The Legal Director leads, manages, and supports legal personnel who provide direct client representation and serves as lead counsel or co-counsel in major litigation. The Legal Director also oversees the development and dissemination of legal information (e.g., cases, statutes, and regulations) to provide support to the legal team and assure staff knowledge remains up to date.

Responsibilities:

Leadership:

• Participates in the agency management team and functions as Acting ED when the ED is absent or otherwise unavailable
• Participates in annual development of LCD’s areas of work
• With the ED, establishes program benchmarks and recommends improvements; develops standards for reporting, accountability, and measuring success; and makes program development recommendations to the ED
• Participates in planning and applying for LCD fund diversification, including grant writing and review

Legal Team Management:

• Day-to-day leadership and oversight of the agency’s legal work and legal team members;
• Leadership and oversight of the agency’s advocacy work
• Participates in regularly scheduled meetings with all legal team members
• Engages in legal work on behalf of clients and maintains a personal case load
• Establishes procedures for each step of LCD’s direct services of clients beginning with intake, determining which cases LCD will take based on resources, and the distribution of cases to staff
• In conjunction with the Supervising Attorney, oversees MLP operations at each site, including referral forms and processes, provider trainings, and staffing
• Supervision of attorney case work and court appearances when the Supervising Attorney is otherwise unavailable
• Works with staff to establish annual goals/expectations and conducts 6-month check-ins with staff regarding goals/expectations
• Works with the ED to recruit and hire legal team members
• Oversees orientation and training of new legal team members
• Files impact litigation
• Identifies experienced practitioners to provide mentoring for staff attorneys in new practice areas and other counties
• Oversees the pro bono arm of LCD’s direct services

Program Development and Evaluation:

• Coordination of in-service trainings for staff, including both substantive legal issues as well as skills-based trainings
• Oversees data collection, including setting uniform data points, storage, outcome measures, and client authorizations
• Coordinates with the Supervising Attorney and staff attorneys across MLP sites to share best MLP practices
• Coordinates with the Housing Director to ensure compliance with expected deliverables and outcomes

Community Involvement and Systemic Advocacy:

• Oversees LCD attendance at specific Philadelphia Bar Committee monthly meetings, task force group meetings, and MLP cohort meetings
• In coordination with the ED and Housing Director, cultivate and maintain relationships with regional legal services agencies to identify areas for collaboration;
• In coordination with the ED, identifies areas to target for policy advocacy and impact litigation;
• Oversees submission of abstracts to regional and national conferences regarding the MLP model, LCD’s MLP Initiative, and LCD programs.

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Reclaim Philadelphia is a member-led organization that builds community power to win change, reclaim government for the people, and advance economic, racial, and gender justice. Since our founding in 2016, we have significantly changed the political landscape in Philadelphia with a series of previously unimaginable electoral victories. Recently independent after years of fiscal sponsorship, we seek our first Executive Director. The most important thing you need to know before applying is that we are a membership organization and do not want to be a typical nonprofit. Our Board is committed to being member-led, making our organization more democratic, increasing member participation, encouraging member initiative and leadership development, and moving away from Covid-era electronic-only organizing practices. Externally we want to focus on collaborative work and strengthening relationships with partners old and new.

Good candidates must support our values and our theory of change. They will be creative, kind, respectful, positive, and organized. Further, they will align with the vision of greater democracy and collaboration laid out by the Board. They will be anchored by a deep commitment to membership and sense of accountability to members and, more broadly, to serving the multiracial working class. They will agree that staff time should be used not to do all the work, but to build the infrastructure to empower and facilitate members and leaders to organize neighbor-to-neighbor, like a membership-led organization should. They will be eager to think outside the boxes and traps of the nonprofit world and work as a partner with the Board and member-leaders to experiment to create powerful new models of success that combine the reliability of paid staff with the scalability and true power of member-led organizing.

The Executive Director will work with the Board and member leaders to achieve Reclaim’s mission, conducting day-to-day operations efficiently, developing and evaluating programs, overseeing campaigns, managing personnel, and leading fundraising efforts. More specifically, the Executive Director will:

Program and Operations: 

• Work with the Board and members to build the infrastructure of the organization, ensuring systems, processes, and work plans across the organization are aligned with Reclaim’s vision and current priorities and that day-to-day operations are set up for maximum impact.
• Ensure strategic priorities are reflected in an actionable plan with measurable milestones and outcomes.
• Perform day-to-day operational and programmatic duties and tasks related to the continued functioning and success of Reclaim, including but not limited to meeting with member leaders, planning trainings, developing field plans, etc.
• Serve as a lead external ambassador and spokesperson for Reclaim with the media, donors, coalition partners, elected officials, and other external stakeholders.

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