Nonprofit Partnerships Manager

Liberty Seeds; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental insurance

Parental leave

Employer-paid retirement savings

Paid leave

Flextime

Job summary

Pacific Legal Foundation, a nationwide public interest law firm, seeks a proactive professional to oversee amicus outreach and coalition relationships across multiple states. You will engage with academic, legal, think tank, and grassroots partners to support litigation, legislative campaigns, and research development.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in policy/external relations, a strategic mindset, and the ability to build mutually beneficial partnerships across diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of external relations, policy, or legislative work experience.
• Knowledge of law is not required, but interest in legal and policy issues is a plus.
• Demonstrated interest in current cultural and policy conversations.
• Strong strategic mindset for identifying, pitching, and managing partnerships.
• Familiarity with nonprofit, legal, think tank, grassroots, and legislator groups.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the amicus outreach program and manage coalition relationships across practice groups and states.
• Cultivate relationships with stakeholders in academia, legal, think tanks, and grassroots organizations to support PLF's litigation, campaigns, and research.
• Identify opportunities for PLF to advance focus areas and raise organizational profile.
• Develop partnership strategies with the Nonprofit Partnerships Principal and internal teams.
• Represent PLF at meetings, events, and conferences with partners and allies.

Skills

External relations

Policy experience

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Travel readiness

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Job description

Pacific Legal Foundation is the nation's first and most successful public interest law firm dedicated to vindicating individual liberty. PLF has an unmatched record in the U.S. Supreme Court, with 18 victories at the Court. We also have more than a hundred active cases across the nation.

You: A creative and entrepreneurial coalitions professional with strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills. A dedicated freedom fighter, you're passionate about PLF's mission and values, and eager to put your skills to work supporting our next US Supreme Court case or our newest piece of model legislation. You are excited to turn opportunities into reality, but, most importantly, you're not content to rest on past success, always looking to increase your impact.

We're not just looking for a gladhander. While you have strong interpersonal skills, you also possess a keen strategic mindset and are able to weigh PLF goals with those of our audience and partners, in order to build strong, mutually beneficial partnerships.

Them: Bureaucrats, city councils, mayors, governors, and federal agencies stripping Americans of their rights every day. There's a lot of government overreach out there, and it's backed by seemingly endless resources. But fortunately, like all lumbering giants, abusive government is most vulnerable when countered by individuals who act strategically and nimbly, take calculated risks, have each other's backs, work together to achieve, and are confident in, and passionate for, the cause of liberty—the very sort of swashbucklers we employ in spades here at PLF.

Us: We fight back. Pacific Legal Foundation is the nation's first and most successful public interest law firm dedicated to vindicating individual liberty. PLF has an unmatched record in the U.S. Supreme Court, with 18 victories at the Court. We also have more than a hundred active cases across the nation.

We are a next-generation public interest law firm. What does "next generation" mean for a legal nonprofit? It means we aren't interested in doing the same thing as everyone else. We aspire to be the best player in a constantly changing game.

Here’s what you get to do in this role:

In this role, you will oversee our amicus outreach program and manage nonprofit coalition relationships in two of our practice groups and across a portfolio of states.

You’ll cultivate relationships with stakeholders in academic, legal, think tank, and grassroots organizations who can support PLF's litigation, legislative campaigns, and research development at the federal, state, and local levels. You’ll work across the firm to identify opportunities for PLF to advance your areas of focus and the organization more broadly. In essence, you’re responsible for ensuring that PLF is a preferred partner, advancing our cases, policies, and research, and raising our organizational profile among key audiences.

You’ll be responsible for developing partnership strategies alongside the Nonprofit Partnerships Principal and internal PLF teams.

Getting down to brass tacks, your specific job duties will likely include:

• Creating and supporting coalitions of individuals and organizations in support of PLF's work, including building original outreach lists and engagement strategies.
• Overseeing and developing the amicus outreach program for all PLF cert petitions.
• Identifying and pitching opportunities for collaboration to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintaining accurate, up-to-date information on outreach contacts and partnerships (we use Salesforce as our database).
• Taking the front seat in new outreach campaigns, leading from strategy to execution.
• Working with PLF attorneys and staff to identify and leverage existing networks of support.
• Representing PLF at meetings, events, and conferences with partners and allied organizations.

This role is ideal for someone with:

• 3+ years of experience in external relations, policy, working on the Hill or state legislature, or similar.
• Knowledge of law isn’t required, although it’s certainly a plus.
• Demonstrated interest in current cultural and policy conversations.
• A keen strategic mind capable of identifying, pitching, and managing opportunities for partnership.
• Knowledge and familiarity with nonprofit, legal, think tank, grassroots, and legislator groups.
• Passion for working with people of all ideological backgrounds, from every walk of life.
• A positive and proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the year.

General Information

Pacific Legal Foundation identifies and litigates important legal issues to set landmark precedents that will benefit Americans nationwide. Using strategic and principled litigation, communications, and research, we battle for freedom in the nation's courts and the court of public opinion.

As a national nonprofit organization, PLF has brick-and-mortar offices in Sacramento, CA and Arlington, VA, although approximately half of the staff works from home across the country. The ability to work from the Arlington, VA, office is encouraged and a big positive, but not required.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $80,000 – 100,000, depending on skills and experience.

This is a full-time, permanent position. PLF is committed to recruiting and retaining the highest-quality talent available nationwide, and we offer a total compensation package that includes a competitive salary, medical and dental insurance, parental leave, and employer-paid retirement savings. We take work-life balance seriously through our generous paid leave and flextime policies. We have a flexible, collaborative, positive, and collegial work environment. We take pride in investing in your future and encourage internal advancement. PLF is the place for someone principled, tenacious, and determined to succeed in positively shaping the future of our country and restoring real limits on government power. Join us.