Careers

The New York Civil Liberties Union is seeking a full-time paralegal to assist its attorneys involved in civil rights and civil liberties litigation.

The Research Assistant will work under the direction of the Executive Counsel, unless reassigned based upon organizational needs. The tasks will include undertaking research in support of reports, articles, blogs and op­ed pieces and other writings to be drafted by the Executive Counsel and/or other staff on topics relating to civil liberties and civil rights.

The NYCLU seeks an experienced attorney to conduct litigation and related advocacy in the NYCLU’s Education Policy Center. The fellow will become an important voice for education policy in New York, with a focus on addressing and uplifting urgent issues: protecting students’ civil rights and liberties, defending public education from existential attacks, combatting classroom censorship, protecting student privacy, and defending the rights of LGBTQ and immigrant children to attend safe and supportive schools.

The Administrative Assistant reports directly to the Director of the Education Policy Center and Director in the Racial Justice Center (collectively, “the Centers”). The Administrative Assistant accomplishes a varied range of tasks to support the programming and administration of the Centers.

The NYCLU seeks an experienced, innovative, and dynamic Organizer who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced organization and can skillfully design, implement and/or support the NYCLU approaches to a broad docket of civil rights and civil liberties issues. The CNY Organizer is an equally shared interdepartmental position that reports to the Assistant Director of the Field Department and the Director of the Racial Justice Center.

The NYCLU seeks an attorney with 2-5 years of experience for a two- or three-year internally funded legal fellowship. The Fellow will primarily work with Policy team members to support the immigration, policing, and/or criminal legal system reform policy dockets, though may also be staffed on work involving privacy and surveillance, protest, First Amendment rights, and defensive work.

The Project Contractor will ensure the ongoing success of the research being conducted by the Air Quality Partnership for NYC Schools, of which the NYCLU is a founding member. The project contractor will lead and sustain consistent data-collection and management of the partnership, including overseeing and coordination of undergraduate and graduate research assistants to maintain engaged partnership.

The Legal Director is a member of the NYCLU's senior leadership team and provides vision and direction for the NYCLU's legal program. The Legal Director is responsible for overall management of the legal department and its docket, 20+ staff members, and a network of cooperating attorneys.