Deputy Director, External Relations - The Federalist Society : Job Details

DEPUTY DIRECTOR, EXTERNAL RELATIONS - THE FEDERALIST SOCIETYThe Federalist Society seeks a Deputy Director for External Relations. This position reports to the Director of External Relations.WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Collaborate with the Director of External Relations and other FedSoc staff in planning and promoting events for our Capitol Hill Lawyers Chapter, State Courts Project, State Constitutions Project, and State Attorneys General Project. This includes agenda development, speaker invitations, promotion, and panel coordination.
• Commission and edit short State Court Docket Watch articles and longer whitepapers for the State Courts Project.
• Develop and maintain relationships with Federalist Society members and other organizations.
• Provide speaker and programming recommendations to FedSoc volunteers and staff.
• Work with the Federalist Society's PR firm to shape media coverage of FedSoc and its programs.
• Coordinate operations of the External Relations team, including managing staff.
• Monitor current developments and identify trends involving law and public policy both on the national and regional levels.
• Experience in the DC legal market and/or within the conservative legal movement is desired.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• A bachelor's degree
• At least five years of professional experience or a J.D.
• Recent law school graduates and/or those with event planning experience will be favored.
• This position will require regular travel, including on some weekends, as well as working occasional early morning and evening events.
• Full-time telecommuters will not be considered.

WHO WE ARE:

• Founded in 1982, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians dedicated to reforming the current legal order. We are committed to the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.
• By providing a forum for legal experts of opposing views to interact with members of the legal profession, the judiciary, law students, academics, and the architects of public policy, the Society has redefined the terms of legal debate.
• The Society is a membership organization that features a Student, Lawyers, and a Faculty Division. Our active membership includes more than 10,000 law students at most of the 204 ABA-accredited law schools as well as 80,000 legal professionals in active chapters in 110 cities.

WHY PEOPLE WORK HERE:Our staff is deeply committed to the mission of 'FedSoc' as we are affectionately known. We are conservatives and libertarians working for a well-known organization in Washington D.C. and throughout the United States. We are not advocates or lobbyists for specific policies but focus on our mission which is to impact the quality and depth of discourse about governing and our Constitution. We are opinionated, focused, optimistic, pragmatic, and anxious to engage with others. Those who come to FedSoc believe deeply in the rule of law and our conversations naturally flow from that belief. Those with a well-developed and perhaps quirky sense of humor, a desire to understand the law for its own sake, and who are strongly self-disciplined (because we all operate without a lot of oversight) do well here. We are all in kind of people. We tend to thrive on great books, great journalism, great film and are thorough and committed. WHERE YOU'LL WORK:We are located in the heart of the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, only three blocks from the White House and across the street from the Farragut West Metro Station with easy access to the Washington D.C. Metro area.WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US: The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions. - President Ronald Reagan [T]his organization has played an important part in sparking a dialogue between lawyers and judges, and even at times amongst judges themselves...by assiduously avoiding the temptation to take positions, or to lobby and engage in political advocacy. Resisting that temptation takes discipline, I am sure, but rest assured that you have made the right choice and are providing a genuine and unique service in so doing. Stay the course! - Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization has definitely done is to contribute to free speech, free debate, and most importantly public understanding of, awareness of, and appreciation of the Constitution. So that's a marvelous contribution. - Nadine Strossen, Former President, ACLUIf you are interested, please send a cover letter & resume attached using the link below or post to our website