Partnerships Coordinator

Deadline: Please submit resume, cover letter, writing sample and at least three references by Nov. 14, 2025, for priority review. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Law for Black Lives (L4BL) is seeking an experienced relational leader to join the organization as the Partnerships Coordinator. This position is a unique opportunity to develop and maintain relationships with our growing Partnerships Network and provide them with critical legal and policy support and coordination.

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

The Partnerships Coordinator will work diligently to facilitate the growth and maintenance of our Partnerships Network. The Partnerships Coordinator will manage the overall quality of experience of our partners and will work to provide space and opportunity for our partners to build relationships and collaborate by region and issue area, as well as receive robust support from our network. And, alongside the Partnerships Director, ensure an organizational understanding of our partnerships and their needs.

Key Responsibilities

The Partnerships Coordinator will work under the direction of the Partnerships Director to ensure the organization meets its goal of maintaining a consistent presence in radical movement, legal, and policy fields in ways that are in line with L4BL’s vision and values, promote L4BL’s theory of change, and enable the organization to provide support, services, and partnership to the movement for Black liberation, and transform the law and legal field. Specifically, the Partnerships Coordinator will be responsible for the following work:

LEADERSHIP:

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

PARTNERSHIPS:

• Manage and facilitate partnerships’ interest meetings
• Conduct research and outreach to potential regional and local partners
• Work with the events and operations coordinator to facilitate partnerships’ listening tours, outreach trips, meet-ups, and networking events.
• Serve as liaison to community-based movement organizations to ensure that the needs of community groups are being regularly assessed and consistently met,
• Serve as a liaison to legal and policy organizations seeking partnership with the organization
• Represent the organization’s interest in and report back on coalition meetings
• Support the Partnerships department programming efforts, including the Communities of Learning and Practice
• Document, evaluate, and report on the specifics of our partnerships programming
• Document, evaluate, and report on partnerships programming needs and requests
• Support partnerships’ communications
• Support the Partnerships Director with:
  • partner recruitment strategy
  • the maintenance of the partnerships list
  • the creation of metrics for assessing the needs of partnerships and the effectiveness of the department meeting those needs.
  • the creation of metrics for measuring the growth of partnerships and the effectiveness of partnerships program offerings.
  • sustaining the organization’s knowledge of the shifting priorities, interests, and theories of movement, legal, and policy fields,
  • building and maintaining the organization’s knowledge of and relationships with key movement, legal, and policy stakeholders,
  • supporting and facilitating well-structured experimental and collaborative spaces for partners on a regional level,

RESEARCH, EDUCATION & TRAINING:

• Connecting and maintaining relationships between the partners and the organization’s training programs including the clinical cohort and internship program
• Work with the Research, Education, and Training department to coordinate partnerships research efforts, and to conduct research on key political, policy, and legal areas,
• Work with the Research, Education, and Training department to develop and facilitate political and legal education trainings around key movement, policy, and legal issues, and the practices of movement lawyering

MEMBERSHIP:

• Work with the Membership department to develop the organization’s rapid response protocol and coordinate L4BL’s rapid response efforts.
• Work with the Membership department to form connections between our membership and local base-building and assist with relationship-building.
• Work with the Membership department to develop and coordinate regional Freedom Labs* for collaboration and coordination on local issues and campaigns.

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)
• At least 2-3 years of experience engaging community and movement organizations, preferably with strong relationships with organizations doing Black liberation work.
• At least 2-3 years of experience working in the legal field, with lawyers, law students, and legal workers. A law degree is preferred, as are relationships with public interest, racial justice, and movement lawyering organizations.
• At least 1-2 years of experience with coalition building and/or working in established coalitions and/or growing new collaborations.
• Strong relationship-building skills.
• Experience with political education development.
• Ability to effectively facilitate workshops and/or present to groups with varied levels of prior knowledge and experience.
• 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.
• Exceptional organizational skills for effective project management.

Position: Full-time salaried employee. Overtime exempt.

Compensation: $70,000 - $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, and 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, extensive travel will be required

Start Date: Jan 2026

Reports To: Partnerships Director

Vaccination Requirement: L4BL at NEO follows CDC guidance regarding staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters. Accordingly, and in order to ensure that the wellness and safety of our staff to the greatest extent possible, NEO requires the COVID-19 vaccination and boosters for all staff. 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 combating 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, Inc., 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, and 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.

Fluency in English required.