Description
Description:
The Policy Counsel will be part of CDT’s Privacy & Data Project, reporting to the project’s director. The Privacy & Data Project team works to enhance individual privacy in the digital world by engaging with regulators and government agencies, empowering users, shaping corporate practices, and providing exemplary thought leadership in a variety of settings.
CDT is a leading nonprofit public interest organization, working at the cutting edge of digital rights policy. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT engages in a variety of strategies to enhance free expression and privacy, including advocacy, public education, and research. CDT works on legislation, participates in agency rule-makings, engages in litigation, and fosters consensus-building among public interest and private sector stakeholders.
This position reports to the Director of Privacy & Data. Responsibilities may include:
- Conducting in-depth legal, policy and legislative research and analysis and developing privacy policy recommendations;
- Drafting legal and advocacy documents such as policy papers, blog posts, press releases, testimony, agency comments, and legal briefs and memoranda;
- Advocating before executive branch and legislative policymakers;
- Collaborating with industry and foundations to advance best practices in privacy, with an emphasis on the collection, sharing and use of unregulated health data for the first year;
- Representing CDT in the media and at public events; and
- Developing and maintaining productive relationships with other advocates, academics, technologists, companies and communities.
Salary is commensurate with experience and is competitive with public interest and government pay scales. CDT provides a generous benefits package that includes health care and dental coverage, a retirement plan, paid vacation, sick days, and parental leave.
Qualifications:
This position is designed for a lawyer with demonstrated knowledge of privacy policy.
Required qualifications:
- A law degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience in law and public policy;
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills and demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills;
- Knowledge of and experience with laws relating to US privacy policy is a must; experience with GDPR preferred;
- Experience working with a variety of diverse stakeholders and an understanding of how to productively bring those disparate positions together;
- Flexibility and the ability to respond to the issues of the day; and
- Commitment to CDT’s mission to put democracy and individual rights at the center of the digital revolution.
Additional qualifications may include:
- Familiarity with relevant policy institutions, including experience working in or with federal agencies or Congress;
- Demonstrated experience with public speaking and communicating with the media;
- Existing relationships with key stakeholders, including policymakers, the press, advocates, and tech companies, and experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders and organizations;
- Knowledge of emerging trends in technology and implications for users and society, including the influence of technology on human rights and civil liberties;
- An understanding of how law, policy and technology may have a disparate impact on underserved or disadvantaged individuals and communities.
Application Info:
To apply, please send a resume, cover letter, and writing sample to hr@cdt.org.
Application:
Interested applicants can view the posting here.
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