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Posted on: 30+ days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Department: Antonin Scalia Law School

Classification: Public Relations & Mktg Spec 4

Job Category:Classified Staff

Job Type:Full-Time

Work Schedule:Full-time (1.0 FTE 40 hrs/wk)

Location: Arlington VA

Workplace Type:On Site Required

Sponsorship Eligibility:

Pay Band:05

Salary:Salary commensurate with education and experience

Restricted: Yes

Criminal Background Check:Yes

About the Department:

The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State is dedicated to fostering significant legal scholarship on new and timeless questions about the modern administrative state in order to elevate and improve debates occurring in the courts in Congress in the executive branch and in the broader public.

About the Position:

The Editorial Director creates the Centers book and pamphlet publishing program. The Director works with the Centers Executive Director to identify key regulatory and legal issues that will be debated in the coming decade to serve as publication subject matter. This position recruits edits and advises authors leading academics from universities around the country ensuring that the publications are on point and targeted towards key audiences including judges their chambers policymakers and academia. The Director works with publishers on the production of the publications. This position also oversees the Centers other means of distributing the latest in research including email and social media publishing and the Centers website.

Responsibilities:

Books and pamphlet publishing

  • Commissions and publishes books and pamphlets on relevant subjects in administrative law in consultation with the Centers Executive Director;
  • Works with the Centers Executive Director to identify key regulatory and legal issues that will be debated in the coming decade to serve as publication subject matter;
  • Recruits edits and advises authors leading academics from universities around the country ensuring that the publications are on point and targeted towards key audiences including judges their chambers policymakers and academia; and
  • Works with publishers on the physical production of the publications.

Email publishing

  • Utilizes the Centers email database to spread the Centers research events and other relevant publications and developments in the field; and
  • Develops and expands the database to include more relevant recipients including judges judicial clerks academics and legal practitioners who are interested in receiving the Centers insights in the administrative state.

Materials for conferences and roundtables

  • Assists with producing materials such as summaries of research agendas and invitations that work to spread the Centers research through materials used to promote and at Center conferences and roundtables.

Website

  • Uses the Centers website as both a library for the Centers research as well as to promote the Centers research.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelors degree in related field or equivalent work and education experience;
  • Considerable experience in editorial and publishing preferably on legal or regulatory subjects (typically 5 years);
  • Experience popularizing complicated concepts for a wider audience;
  • Knowledge of the American regulatory system and/or administrative law;
  • Editing skills which include editing and publishing books pamphlets polemics or periodicals; and
  • Ability to collaborate with a team focused on an organizations well-defined mission.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Masters degree in related field;
  • Extensive publishing including either legal or regulatory subjects (typically 10 years);
  • Considerable experience overseeing social media and email efforts focused on academic or other serious subjects such as the law (typically 3 years); and
  • Some experience with email or social media communications of serious policy and legal concepts and arguments (typically 2 years).

Instructions to Applicants:

For full consideration applicants must apply forEditorial Director at and submit the online application to include three professional references with contact information and provide a Cover Letter/Letter of Intent with Resume for review.

Posting Open Date:October 7 2025

For Full Consideration Apply by:October 21 2025

Open Until Filled:Yes


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Department: Antonin Scalia Law SchoolClassification: Public Relations & Mktg Spec 4Job Category:Classified StaffJob Type:Full-TimeWork Schedule:Full-time (1.0 FTE 40 hrs/wk)Location: Arlington VAWorkplace Type:On Site RequiredSponsorship Eligibility:Pay Band:05Salary:Salary commensurate with educati...
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