New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), a community-driven civil rights organization, seeks an experienced attorney as Director for its Environmental Justice program.
Through our Environmental Justice work, NYLPI seeks to eliminate the unfair burdens of environmental hazards borne by low-income communities and communities of color – and to create a more equitable and sustainable New York. In partnership with community-based organizations, advocacy groups, pro bono law firms, and individual New Yorkers, our Environmental Justice team builds coalitions, devises and executes campaigns, brings cutting-edge litigation, and shapes policy. We are creative and determined in our legal, policy, and community work. We engage our community partners and follow the lead of people most directly affected by environmental racism and injustice. Having successfully fought for the enactment of New York State’s Environmental Rights Amendment, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, and critical Local Laws addressing systemic environmental harms, we are dedicated to full implementation through litigation, regulation, and further legislation.
About the Role
This position is a remarkable opportunity for an experienced, creative leader to build on NYLPI’s strengths and successes, and increase our impact by developing and managing ambitious litigation and campaigns. The Environmental Justice Director will:
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
Preferred
About NYLPI
For more than 45 years, NYLPI has been a leading civil rights advocate for New Yorkers opposing marginalization on the basis of race, immigration status, poverty, neighborhood pollution, and disabilities. NYLPI pioneered the practice of community lawyering in the five boroughs of New York City. These communities shape our priorities, and their struggles for justice demand innovative solutions. Our interdisciplinary teams of advocates use every tool available – community organizing, impact litigation and individual representation, policy advocacy, media, pro bono partnerships, and public education – to solve seemingly intractable problems, develop leaders, and build collective power to achieve justice. We strive to create equal access to health care, achieve equality of opportunity and self-determination for people with disabilities, ensure immigrant opportunity, strengthen local nonprofits, and secure environmental justice for low-income communities of color. To learn more about NYLPI, visit www.nylpi.org.
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), a community-driven civil rights organization, seeks an experienced attorney as Director for its Environmental Justice program.
Through our Environmental Justice work, NYLPI seeks to…
NYLPI offers comprehensive employer-paid benefits, including health insurance, short- and long-term disability and life insurance, an outstanding retirement savings plan (after 12 months, NYLPI contributes 5% of an employee’s annual salary and will match up to an additional 2½%), paid family and sick leave, fifteen (15) days of vacation during the first year of employment (increasing to 24 in the third year) and five personal days, eleven (11) official office holidays, and a holiday swapping policy to allow for the observation of holidays of your choice, as well as extensive voluntary benefits.
NYLPI offers comprehensive employer-paid benefits, including health insurance, short- and long-term disability and life insurance, an outstanding retirement savings plan…
Proficiency in Spanish and/or other major languages of our client communities preferred.
Proficiency in Spanish and/or other major languages of our client communities preferred.
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis. Please send applications to jobs@nylpi.org with the subject line “Environmental Justice Director.” Applications must include:
We strongly encourage candidates fluent in multiple languages and candidates from historically oppressed groups to apply. We are committed to advancing social justice and civil rights in our advocacy, and we value the dynamism and perspective that staff diversity, equity, and inclusion bring to the work and culture of our organization. We strive to promote behaviors, attitudes and policies that enable us to work inclusively and effectively in cross-cultural situations with clients, co-workers, and community partners. We actively recruit and seek to grow and maintain a staff that is diverse along many axes, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, and national origin; disability; socioeconomic background; and sexual orientation and gender identity.
NYLPI is a hybrid workplace. This position requires a minimum of two days per week in the office, with additional in-person time as required. NYLPI’s hybrid workplace requirements may change. The director must be based in the New York City area upon starting employment.
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis. Please send applications to jobs@nylpi.org with the subject line “Environmental Justice Director.” Applications must include…