Academic Freedom Organizer

• Advance local campus campaigns around academic freedom issues, share best practices, and provide guidance to AAUP chapter leaders.
• Increase AAUP members' capacity for academic freedom defense through workshops, trainings, and rapid response efforts.
• Build and support cross-institutional groups to advocate for academic freedom at campus, regional, state, and national levels.
• Support inclusion of academic freedom and job security protections in collective bargaining agreements and faculty handbooks.

This role empowers higher education workers to defend academic freedom, job security, and shared governance, strengthening the labor movement and protecting democracy against authoritarian encroachment.

• Three years' experience as an organizer.
• Demonstrated understanding of academic freedom and the political context facing higher education workers.
• Excellent writing, communication, research, and analytical skills.
• Willingness to travel extensively throughout the United States and work irregular hours.

Salary range: $74,123.96 - $85,145.13. AAUP offers a generous benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance; paid sick days; paid vacation days; and 401(K).

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is a fast-growing union of higher education workers uniting and mobilizing the sector against partisan attacks to protect academic freedom, strengthen the labor movement, and defend democracy.