Chief Advocacy Officer - $280,000 - $300,000 A Year

About the team:In a moment when the federal government is trying to advance an authoritarian agenda under the guise of “crime control” and the criminal justice and immigrant rights fields need to build political influence and power to make progress and protect wins, Vera and Vera Action plays a central role as one of the nation’s oldest and largest justice reform organizations. We work across the political aisle and with the belief that a majority of the American public believes in both safety and justice—and there is no false choice between one or the other. Our success, whether on legislative campaigns or to change hearts and minds, depends on collaboration and coordination with other partners, including national and local allies, progressives and conservatives, grasstops and grassroots organizations, and within the justice reform field and beyond. In the movement ecology of social change, where different groups play distinct roles (i.E., mass protest, organizing, inside lane, etc.),...