Project Coordinator

Deadline: Please submit resume, cover letter, writing sample, and at least three references by Monday, July 14, 2025, 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

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

Key Responsibilities

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.

SPECIAL PROJECTS:

• Provide the organization with logistical, research, and administrative support for organizational special projects.
• Coordinate relationship management, including inputting and updating organizational contacts and touchpoints
• Coordinate scheduling across the organization

COMMUNICATIONS, LOGISTICS, & ADMIN SUPPORT:

• Provide project administrative support to the department staff, including support with program reporting and finance/expense reporting in coordination with the operations department
• Coordinate organizational and departmental inboxes
• Maintain programming documentation and important records
• Maintain programming communication, including corresponding with external stakeholders
• Collaborate with the Digital Communications and Brand Manager and Research & Political Education Coordinator to maintain the members’, partners’, and organizational newsletters

MEMBERSHIP:

• Maintain the digital community for members, including tech coordination, community conversation moderation, and management of the digital resources
• Support the coordination of Membership Swag alongside the operations department

PARTNERSHIPS:

• Coordinate logistics for Partnerships coalitions and provide note-taking support at coalition meetings.

RESEARCH, EDUCATION, and TRAINING:

• Coordinate logistics for the L4BL training programs, including the internship, clinical, and fellowship programs

EVENTS:

• Collaborate with the Operations department to provide tech and logistical support for digital and in-person programming and org-wide events

STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES:

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

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 2-3 years of experience in project management in a fast-paced environment is required. Experience working in a remote environment is preferred.
• At least 2-3 years of experience providing logistical and administrative support is required.
• 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.
• Experience managing digital communities is strongly preferred.
• Strong writing and editing skills are required.
• Exceptional organizational skillset and practices are required.
• Strong relationship-building skills are required.
• Strong facility with technology is required.
• Exceptional knowledge of project management practices, tools, and technology is required.
• 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, quarterly travel will be required at a minimum. Start Date: August 2025 Reports To: Special Projects Manager

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 the criminal legal system has directly impacted 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 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.