Senior Program Manager (Legal)

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August 3

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $102.2k - $153.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Public Rights Project

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Social Impact • Non-profit • Government

Public Rights Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and social justice. It focuses on empowering local, state, and tribal governments to uphold and enforce laws that protect the civil and human rights of marginalized communities. Through advocacy, legal support, and strategic partnerships, Public Rights Project aims to bridge the gap between legal promises and the realities faced by individuals, particularly in the areas of voting rights, workplace protection, and community engagement.

2 - 10 employees

Founded 2017

🌍 Social Impact

🤝 Non-profit

🏛️ Government

📋 Description

• Build and implement PRP’s Civil Rights Hub (CRH) strategy to reach, engage, and support local elected and appointed officials across California. • Work closely with the CRH Director to aid in strategy, research, analysis, and outreach to serve as a statewide legal resource provider and capacity hub to a variety of entities. • Grow PRP’s network of engaged government partners across the state. • Identify and build relationships with local leaders and stakeholders, including city attorneys and county counsel, mayors, and other electeds, to support the advancement of legal strategy, capacity, and coordination. • Help oversee and coordinate statewide public and nonprofit coalition-building and legal action across the state. • Support strategic communications to increase public understanding and opinion on civil rights, democracy, and justice issues. • Monitor and analyze target local governments’ policy and independent litigation activity on PRP’s core issue areas to inform engagement strategies and tactics. • Analyze the potential impact of PRP’s cases and activities on target local communities. • Serve as project manager to support the planning, execution, and evaluation of key California program initiatives. • Develop and maintain project plans, coordinate cross-functional teams, and facilitate internal and external meetings. • Manage systems to track program activities, case information, and grant deliverables. • Assist CRH Director and support effective delegation and accountability structures; identify and troubleshoot barriers to progress. • Strong legal analysis skills, including the ability to analyze case law, statutes, and regulations with minimal direction. • Represent PRP at third-party coalition, conferences, presentations, and other networking-building events, including events that require travel.

🎯 Requirements

• Law degree required. • 8 - 10+ years of experience with at least 6+ years in legal practice. • Experience managing people and/or running a team preferred. • Prior experience working in or with government officials, elected officials in state or local government, or in public/government affairs. • Experience managing large, complex projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders required. • Prior experience tracking metrics and deliverables as well as working in coalition with government and non-government partners.