Programming & Executive Coordinator

Deadline: Please submit resume, cover letter, writing sample and at least three references by Monday, April 29, 2024_for priority review. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Law for Black Lives (L4BL) is seeking an exceptionally organized and detail-oriented person to join the organization as the Programming & Executive Coordinator. This position is a unique opportunity to support an organization as we build an emerging radical national network of lawyers, legal workers, and law students, and support our movement and legal field partners across the country, all working towards Black liberation. 

About Law for Black Lives

Law For Black Lives (L4BL) is dedicated to transforming the legal field by promoting movement lawyering and cultivating a national community of radical law students, lawyers, and legal workers, building the power of local organizing to defend, protect, and advance Black Liberation, and transforming the law to change the conditions of the struggle and defend Black Lives. L4BL is a fiscally sponsored project at NEO Philanthropy.

Through the coordination and provision of legal support, training, mentorship, research, political education, policy, and popular education tools, we are building a legal infrastructure that is responsive, action-oriented, and collaborative.

Role Description & Key Responsibilities

The Programming & Executive Coordinator is responsible for the overall coordination of our programming and logistical support of our staff. The Programming & Executive Coordinator will work under the direction of the Directors to support the organization in meeting its goals of transforming the law, transforming the legal field, and supporting Black-led base building. Specifically, the Programming & Executive Coordinator will be responsible for the following key pieces of work:

LEADERSHIP:

• Support L4BL leadership in the implementation of organizational strategy 
• Represent the organization to key stakeholders
• Strive to bring the values of Law for Black Lives into practice.

EXECUTIVE: 

• Coordinating executive scheduling and calendar 
• Provide executive with logistical, research, and administrative support
• Working with the Operations & Culture Coordinator to coordinate travel arrangements
• Working with the Development Coordinator and Operations & Culture Coordinator  to coordinate executive external events and appearances   

MEMBERSHIP:

• Maintain the digital community for members including coordinating the facilitators and managing the digital resources
• Coordinate Membership Swag

PARTNERSHIPS: 

• Coordinate logistics for Partnerships coalitions and provide note-taking support

RESEARCH, EDUCATION, and TRAINING:

• Support the creation and maintenance of public-facing tools, trackers, and materials

COMMUNICATION:

• Maintain programming communication including corresponding with members and potential members, partners and potential partners; and work with the Digital Communications and Brand Coordinator and Research & Political Education Coordinator to maintain the members’, partners’, and organizational newsletters

LOGISTICS & ADMIN SUPPORT:

• Provide project administrative support to the department staff including support with program reporting
• Coordinating logistics for the departments including programming logistics, and general scheduling
• Maintaining programming documentation and important records

EVENTS:

• Working with the Operations & Culture Coordinator to coordinate department events

STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES:

• Assess resource opportunities as they arise, and identify points of leverage, opportunity, and alignment.

Skills & Experiences

• Deep commitment to and enthusiasm for L4BL. 
• Familiarity and comfort with L4BL’s values and those of fellow abolitionist movement partners with a strong understanding of Black organizing, Black liberation, intersectionality, and anti-oppression principles and practices. 
• Proven track record of utilizing personal and professional engagements to successfully engage with Law for Black Lives politics (including Black Queer Feminism, Abolition, and movement lawyering) 
• Experience engaging community and movement organizations, preferably with strong relationships with organizations doing Black liberation work.
• At least 1-2 years of experience working in the legal field, with lawyers, law students, and legal workers is required.
• At least 1-2 years of experience with supporting coalition building and/or working in established coalitions and/or growing new collaborations is required.
• At least 3-4 years of experience providing logistical and administrative support is required.
• Exceptional organizational skillset and practices.
• Strong relationship-building skills.
• Exceptional knowledge of project management practices, tools, and technology
• Able to effectively represent L4BL to a variety of audiences and communities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to provide leadership within a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work well with a team.

Position: Full time salaried employee. Overtime exempt. 

Compensation: $75,000 - $80,000 commensurate with experience. Through NEO Philanthropy, this position is offered a full benefits package, including 100% medical coverage for the employee and 90% medical coverage for dependents; 100% coverage for vision, dental, life/AD&D, long-term disability. NEO also offers a 401K retirement savings plan, Healthcare Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA), Medical FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter benefits, Employee Assistance Program, other supplemental benefits and paid time off.

Location: This is a remote position, however some travel will be required

Start Date: May 2024 

Reports To: Executive Director

Vaccination Requirement: L4BL at NEO staff are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19.  Requests for medical and/or religious exemptions from the vaccination requirement will be considered on an individual basis.

TO APPLY: Submit a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and three (3)references at bit.ly/L4BLWork.

L4BL at NEO Philanthropy is an equal opportunity employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status. We strongly encourage black people, people of color, women, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and people who have been directly impacted by the criminal legal system to apply

Law for Black Lives Guiding Values

• We believe in using the law for the people and that legal tools should be used to build the power of movements.
• We are committed to the liberation and self-determination of all Black people -- including Black women and LGBTQIA folks.
• We hold ourselves accountable to support movements for Black liberation including organic uprisings. This means following the leadership of movement organizers and taking direction and feedback from our partners. 
• We are political. We understand that this work requires political lawyering and explicit partnership with movement activists/organizers. 
• We strive to think creatively and collectively about how the law can be used to support movements while respecting activists’ and organizers’ political choices. 
• We are unapologetically committed to developing and following the leadership of Black people within the law. 
• We believe in the importance and necessity of an agile and radical legal infrastructure that supports liberation movements. 
• We believe in actively combatting the elitism, hierarchies, and lawyer-centric tendencies within the legal world. 
• We believe in an internationalist approach that draws connections between the struggle for human rights and dignity in Black communities in the United States and across the globe. 
• We are committed to continued growth and in the words of Mary Hooks, we are willing and ready to be transformed in service of the work. 
• We believe in creating a space that is affirming, healing, transparent, and respectful. We work to ensure that those spaces don’t replicate the kinds of oppression, harm, and trauma that we are working against. 

Through NEO Philanthropy, this position is offered a full benefits package, including 100% medical coverage for the employee and 90% medical coverage for dependents; 100% coverage for vision, dental, life/AD&D, long-term disability. NEO also offers a 401K retirement savings plan, Healthcare Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA), Medical FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter benefits, Employee Assistance Program, other supplemental benefits and paid time off.