The Middle for Democracy & Expertise (CDT) is searching for an skilled advocate to assist lead our work on points on the intersection of free expression and know-how, because the Deputy Director of the Free Expression Venture. This place provides an thrilling alternative to steer on difficult points associated to free expression in america and world wide, together with content material moderation, middleman legal responsibility, disinformation, hate speech, terrorist propaganda, on-line baby security, elementary rights safety, and transparency reporting, in addition to cross-cutting points corresponding to surveillance, encryption, voter suppression, machine studying and algorithmic decisionmaking, generative AI, privateness, and enabling information entry for unbiased researchers.
Detailed Place Description:
CDT works to protect freedom of expression and different human rights on-line by quite a lot of methods, together with advocacy, public training, and analysis. CDT engages in legislative debates and litigation on the state, nationwide, and regional stage within the US and EU; participates in company rulemaking and different coverage improvement processes, domestically and globally; and works to construct greatest practices with business and with different civil society advocates. We work to protect the open web as an enabler of people’ elementary rights to freedom of expression and entry to data, by holding governments and corporations accountable for the methods they form our on-line setting and searching for to empower people and communities.
Tasks:
Key obligations for this place embody:
Execution of CDT’s strategic advocacy plan for particular subjects throughout the Free Expression Venture, together with formulation of coverage positions, improvement of advocacy methods, coordination throughout CDT groups, and coalition-building and engagement with exterior stakeholders;
Writing in quite a lot of codecs, together with weblog posts, advocacy materials, white papers, legislative evaluation, and amicus briefs;
Analysis to assist the event of CDT’s coverage positions and collaboration with CDT’s Analysis crew and different workers on the manufacturing of research-based experiences and articles;
Engagement instantly with know-how corporations to develop greatest practices and coverage suggestions;
Outreach to CDT companions and different stakeholders, together with coordination of CDT’s Free Speech Working Group conferences;
With the Free Expression Venture Director, improvement and execution of advocacy technique, together with identification of short- and long-term advocacy objectives; and
Representing CDT by public talking, participation in coalition conferences, and media interviews.
{Qualifications}:
A perfect candidate would have:
At the very least 5 years of labor expertise in authorized or coverage positions regarding free expression, data coverage, civil liberties, or know-how coverage, with rising ranges of accountability;
A sophisticated diploma in a related subject (e.g. regulation, laptop science, data, public coverage);
Experience in a minimum of one of many following areas: U.S. First Modification regulation; E.U. or U.S. middleman legal responsibility regulation, corresponding to Part 230; worldwide human rights regulation and free expression; content material moderation/belief & security/product coverage; automated content material evaluation/filtering; or transparency reporting;
Glorious verbal and written communication abilities, together with expertise interacting with press;
Expertise with advocacy earlier than Congress, federal businesses, European establishments, and/or US and European courtroom methods;
Familiarity with technical ideas associated to the web, freedom of expression, and content material moderation; and
An brisk, entrepreneurial, and collaborative working type.
Compensation and Location:
The compensation for this place ranges from $90K–$135K. Compensation is set on a tiered pay scale primarily based on years of expertise and the obligations of the position. Candidates might request steerage on the place they’d fall throughout the wage vary throughout or previous to their first interview. CDT gives a beneficiant advantages bundle that features well being care and dental protection for workers and dependents, a retirement plan, paid trip, sick days, and parental depart.
This place is predicated in CDT’s Washington, D.C. workplace, which operates on a hybrid schedule with a goal of three days in workplace per week. A unique hybrid schedule could also be thought-about in distinctive instances, and is accessible if wanted as a incapacity lodging.
Software Submission Data:
Please ship a résumé and a canopy letter explaining your curiosity within the place to hr@cdt.org.
The Middle for Democracy & Expertise is an equal alternative employer and doesn’t discriminate on the premise of race, coloration, faith, gender, gender expression, age, nationwide origin, incapacity, marital standing, or sexual orientation in any of its actions or operations. We imagine {that a} various workers permits us to do higher and extra impactful work. Ladies, folks of coloration, folks with disabilities, members of LGBTQIA+ and different traditionally marginalized communities are strongly inspired to use.
