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Managing Director

Position Number: 4381920
Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Business - Business Law

Managing Director

About the Opportunity

The Center for Law in the Public Interest ("CPIAC") at Northeastern University School of Law ("NUSL") is the hub of outstanding public interest activities that reflect the NUSL ethos that legal work is most commendable and redemptive when serving social justice. Already NUSL has myriad clinics, institutes and special programs that bring a public interest focus to their mission and work; and a broad ranging curriculum exploring legal areas that disproportionately affect the underrepresented and marginalized in our society, including the unique, client-centered, first-year course Legal Skills in Social Context. The law school annually hosts world-class, public interest attorneys to share experiences with our students, including the Daynard Distinguished Visiting Fellows, the Givelber Distinguished Public Interest Lecturers, and the Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecturer, sponsored by the Program on Human Rights in the Global Economy. Our students aspire to public interest careers at a rate exceeding those of nearly every law school in the country. Relative to graduating-class size, NUSL ranks fifth in the country, according to one recent study, in receiving the prestigious Skadden Fellowships and Equal Justice Awards. CPIAC plays a critical role in maintaining NUSL's position as the leading public interest law school in the 21st century.

The CPIAC Managing Director works with CPIAC's Faculty Director to implement CPIAC's strategic plan for bringing NUSL's public interest focus to the next level and, with direction from the Faculty Director, provides long-term and day-to-day leadership and management of the Center. The Director also works closely with the Assistant Director for Public Interest in the Center for Career Development and Cooperative Learning to increase access to public interest co-ops for NUSL students and identify public interest job opportunities for NUSL graduates. The Director has responsibility for organizing the Center's lectures, symposia, coffee hours, conferences, programming with visiting fellows, and other events; spearheads CPIAC's existing research projects and develops and proposes new research initiatives, in particular, interdisciplinary research with other Northeastern colleges; outreaches to organizations in public interest fields to engage them in the work of CPIAC and other collaborative opportunities with the law school; works with faculty to support curriculum development aimed at building a specialized legal pedagogy for social justice lawyering in a changing world; expands student pro bono opportunities; works with the Faculty Director and the Office of Advancement to identify prospects for foundation and corporate support and other potential financial resources for CPIAC's work; drafts and submits grant proposals and grant reports and coordinates production of grant deliverables; works with the Director of Communications on the marketing of NUSL as a public interest law school and to publicize CPIAC events; produces CPIAC's e-newsletters and manages CPIAC's social media; collaborates with student organizations to support student-driven events and opportunities; manages the Center's budgets; and in coordination with the Faculty Director, the Dean and the Associate Deans, hires and supervises staff as needed. The Director may also work with the Dean and Associate Deans to develop new and expand existing non-JD programs relating to the public interest and to reach out to graduate and undergraduate programs at Northeastern to enhance the Law School's public interest presence on campus.

The Managing Director supervises a JD Fellow as well as a varying number of student research assistants each semester and may supervise additional grant-funded employees in future. The position reports to the CPIAC faculty director.

Responsibilities:

1) Operations/Administrative Functions

Work with CPIAC faculty director and other partners to periodically engage in strategic planning.
Develop proposed budgets, execute financial transactions, and reconcile budget reports.
Apply for and obtain university authorizations related to financial transactions, human subjects research, contract development, and other functions.
In collaboration with the Office of Advancement, identify funding prospects, apply for support for CPIAC research and other projects, and report on grant outcomes.

3) Event Planning and Execution:

Develop event plans collaboratively with students, other staff, and faculty.
Identify and invite speakers and organize all aspects of events including space, catering, technology, speaker travel and accommodations, speaker payments, etc.
Work with communications office to publicize events.

4) Research Project Management

Spearhead research projects including by building research teams and coordinating them to develop goals and workplans, evaluate and report on research findings
Engage Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Project Advisory Board in center research strategy.
Maintain research-specific websites managed directly by CPIAC.
Periodically develop new research projects in keeping with CPIAC strategic plan.

5) Expand Student Opportunities and Engagement:

Outreach to public interest organizations, locally and nationally, to maintain and expand student pro bono and volunteer opportunities.
Hire and supervise co-op students and student research assistants.
Work with Center for Co-op and Career Development to increase access to public interest co-op and career opportunities for NUSL students and graduates.
Work with faculty on curriculum development aimed to create a specialized legal pedagogy for social justice lawyering in a changing world.
Work with the Dean and Associate Deans to develop new and expand existing non-JD programs relating to public interest law.

6) Communications and Publicity:

Work with the Office of Communications to market NUSL as a public interest law school.
Regularly update CPIAC website content and publicize upcoming events and recent center accomplishments.
Create and disseminate CPIAC e-newsletters.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

J.D. degree
At least 7 years experience as an attorney in public interest positions. (Some of this experience may have been in a relevant law school administrative position, ideally in increasingly more senior roles.)
Strong strategic planning skills
Ability to manage budgets and other operational aspects of a small organization
Ability to ascertain and comply with protocols of a large institution (related to financial transactions, human subjects research, contract development, and other functions)
A national network of public interest attorneys
Supervisory experience of both staff and undergraduate or graduate students
Leadership experience in a professional setting
Availability to occasionally travel and work evenings and weekends as necessary, with appropriate notice for planning purposes.
Ability to build consensus and effective, inclusive teams and to develop collaborative workplans.
Experience planning and executing large-scale, public-attendance events.
Strong written and oral communication skills.
Excellent judgment and problem-solving skills.
Exceptional time management and organizational skills.

Preferred qualifications:

Prior work in legal education
Project management experience
Grant-writing and grant reporting experience

Documents to Submit:

Please submit your cover letter, resume, and list of references in one PDF submission.

Operating budget 200707.

The position additionally manages a variety of project grant budgets (currently: 399007), the Daynard Fellows Program budget (650192), and CPIAC fund budget (390111).

Roughly about ~$1 million budget

Supervision

Currently, one FTE, a grant-funded JD Fellow, reports to this position.

The project is currently applying for funding that would expand this to 2 grant-funded FTEs.

Additionally, this position directly supervises a varying number of student research assistants and co-op students, usually 1-7 per semester depending on project needs.

Position Type

General Administration

Additional Information

Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience, education and skills when extending an offer.

Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees. This includes medical, vision, dental, paid time off, tuition assistance, wellness & life, retirement- as well as commuting & transportation. Visit https://hr.northeastern.edu/benefits/ for more information.

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

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