Associate Director, Courts Communications & Special Projects

• Provide strategic communications guidance for the Strategic Legal Advocacy team projects, for specific cases and to advance legal theories for target audiences.
• Lead Earthjustice's implementation of coalition campaigns related to courts and judges and conduct communications work for special projects related to courts and legal advocacy.
• Create and implement thought leadership strategies around the courts and the law for Earthjustice leadership and the organization's editorial functions.
• Work collaboratively across teams to build and execute integrated strategies that support institutional and departmental priorities.

This role uses communications as a key strategy to stop the destabilization of environmental laws and reduce people's ability to hold the executive branch accountable, protecting people's health, preserving places and wildlife, advancing clean energy, and combating climate change through legal advocacy.

• 7+ years of experience, with 2+ years in a role developing strategy preferred.
• Experience writing communications materials for legal-focused audiences or producing content in a law setting preferred.
• Ability to analyze legal materials and create content, messaging, narrative, and talking points based on them.
• Proven ability to translate complex issues into compelling, accessible communications and ability to prioritize, manage multiple deadlines, and respond quickly in a high-stakes environment.

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits that are comprehensive and competitive. We also offer a congenial, flexible, hybrid work environment and a casual dress code. As a 501(c)(3) organization, Earthjustice is a qualifying employer for purposes of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.

Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization that takes on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country to protect people's health, preserve magnificent places and wildlife, advance clean energy, and combat climate change through the power of law and partnership.