
We’re constantly and aggressively on the lookout for employees who live and breathe our core values:
If you’re passionate about one or more of our job opportunities, and you’re enthusiastic about working alongside colleagues who share these values, then we encourage you to apply to be a part of the PLF team.
PLF seeks an energetic and experienced legal policy and legislative professional to expand our legislative and administrative reform success. The Deputy Legal Policy Director will focus primarily on federal reforms to expand liberty but will also assist in policy promotion at the state level.
The legal policy component at PLF (at the state and federal levels) is a key part of the organization’s strategic plan. The legal policy position provides an opportunity to play an important role that will increase PLF’s prominence and expand its success advancing liberty outside the courts. Reporting to the Legal Policy Director, the Deputy Legal Policy Director will also work with the litigation, research, and communications teams to help develop and execute strategies to secure congressional and executive branch reforms to expand individual liberty. The Deputy Legal Policy Director will need a high degree of entrepreneurship and initiative to execute new projects that are part of the legal policy strategic plan.
Primary Responsibilities
Additional Skills/Preferred 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, 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.
About Pacific Legal Foundation
Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) identifies and litigates important legal issues to set landmark precedent 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. Our attorneys have 12 victories before the U.S. Supreme Court—a record unmatched by anyone in the liberty movement. Simply put, we know how to get cases to the Supreme Court and we know how to win.
A national nonprofit organization, PLF has offices in Sacramento, California; Arlington, Virginia; Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; and Seattle, Washington. The Deputy Legal Policy Director will work from the Arlington, Virginia office, concentrating primarily on federal policy goals, with occasional travel to state capitals to help secure state-policy victories.
To Apply
Qualified candidates should submit the following application materials in one PDF:
Applications should be submitted to Talent Market via this link: talentmarket.org/apply-for-your-dream-job/
Questions can be directed to Katy Gambella, Network Engagement Manager at Talent Market, who is assisting with the search.
While we thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position, we are only able to contact those to whom we can offer an interview. Only direct applications will be considered. No phone calls, please.