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Position: Writer
Department: Communications
Terms of Employment: FullTime/NonExempt/Union 2320/1Year Contract Position (With opportunity for permanent placement). NYCLU staff is currently working in a hybrid model; a number of inperson days will be required.
Location: 125 Broad Street New York NY 10004
Salary: $65000 $79000
Application Deadline: Applications will be reviewed upon receipt and will be considered until hiring is complete.
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is one of the nations leading advocates on behalf of constitutional rights and liberties. Founded in 1951 as the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union the NYCLU is a notforprofit nonpartisan organization with more than 90000 members and supporters and eight offices statewide. We work in the courts in the legislatures and on the streets to advocate for racial and economic justice free speech freedom of religion privacy and equality before the law for all New Yorkers. For more information please visit our website: .
DEI VISION STATEMENT
The NYCLU affirmatively values the humanity and contributions of those we work with inside and outside of the organization; and will take action to build and sustain an equitable antiracist culture that centers the voices and experiences of marginalized and directly impacted people and communities and an organizational environment where all people feel valued trusted and respected. We are committed to diversity equity and inclusion and having a workforce that reflects the population that we serve and actively recruit people of color women people with disabilities formerly incarcerated people and LGBTQ and gender nonconforming people.
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
The NYCLU seeks an engaging thoughtful and deadlineoriented storyteller to join our communications team. The ideal candidate will be a team player with experience writing a broad range of communications materials. Under the supervision of the editorial manager the communications writer will draft edit and identify opportunities for editorial content.
The job requires the ability to work quickly while juggling multiple priorities at a time. The work of the communications team is highly collaborative both within the communications team and across other NYCLU departments.
The Communications Department is responsible for the NYCLUs external communications strategy to advance NYCLUs civil liberties and civil rights priorities. This includes criminal legal and policing issues immigrants rights racial justice education voting rights privacy and technology LGBTQ rights reproductive rights and economic justice. We accomplish this by working with highimpact media launching multimedia advocacy campaigns releasing reports and research and running the organizations website and digital channels.
We are seeking a candidate who can distill complex legal briefs and concepts into easytounderstand writing that goes beyond legal or policy arguments and gets to the heart of a given issue. Candidates should be able to explain why a given topic is important timely and relevant to our audience and to frame our issues in ways that make clear why they matter to New Yorkers.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Write and edit a wide variety of communications products including opeds blog posts speeches advocacy materials emails web content social media posts podcast scripts and reports.
- Identify opportunities for blogs emails to our eactivists reports and other written materials.
- Draft edit pitch and place opeds.
- Help identify ways to ensure our materials reach new and broader audiences.
- Occasionally fill in for media strategists to write press releases and press statements.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
- 12 years of experience doing written communications work or writing in a related field like journalism.
- Strong clear writer who knows how to tell a compelling story while paying attention to detail and getting facts straight.
- Ability to work quickly and on deadline.
- Strong multitasker who can triage and rapidly move from one project to the next.
- Responds well to constructive feedback.
- Collaborative team player who can work with communications team members and staff in other departments.
Preferred:
- Experience working for a nonprofit especially one focused on civil rights and/or social justice.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your resume and cover letter (describing your unique qualifications for this position and how you learned of this job posting) and a recent writing sample via
The NYCLU is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race sex gender identity or expression age disability religion national origin citizenship marital status sexual orientation veteran status record of arrest or conviction or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to diversity equity and inclusion and having a workforce that reflects the communities that we serve.
The NYCLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online please email If you are selected for an interview you will receive additional information regarding how to request accommodation for the interview process. This position may be eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.
Employment Type
Full Time
