Sr. Counsel, Director of Strategy & Integration

Alliance Defending Freedom•Lansdowne, VA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

This position serves the Global Censorship Group and advances ADF’s strategic objectives to combat corporate and state-sponsored censorship, domestically and globally. This role combines high-level legal strategy, thought leadership, and public engagement with a mission-integration function, ensuring that ADF’s legal, legislative, coalition, research, and communications efforts related to censorship are strategically aligned, sequenced, and effective. This position is ideal for a senior attorney who is both a deep strategic thinker and a trusted integrator, capable of helping translate shared strategy into coordinated action across teams while preserving the integrity and expertise of each function.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
JD., licensed to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction
10+ years of relevant legal experience

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the SVP on organizational censorship priorities, decisions, and challenges.
Assist in developing and implementing integrated legislative, regulatory, litigation, coalition, research, and communications strategies addressing corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
Assist in developing, executing, and evaluating annual and multi-year strategic plans, including goals, metrics, and reporting.
Work in close partnership with senior leadership to help translate agreed-upon strategy into coordinated execution, including aligning timing, sequencing, and priorities across relevant teams.
Ensure accountability for censorship initiatives across departments and proactively identify risks and opportunities.
Introduce innovative and proactive approaches that solve problems and strengthen and advance the ministry’s mission.
Conduct complex legal research and analysis that leads to legislative, regulatory, and policy solutions addressing corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
Conduct complex legal research and analysis that informs litigation strategies designed to combat or expose corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
Provide strategic counsel on litigation and other quasi-judicial or administrative agencies of government and coordinate with litigation teams on in- and out-of-court anti-censorship efforts.
Conduct legal and topical research and produce memos, articles, and white papers on corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
Provide legal strategy and support to shareholders using the proxy process to hold companies accountable for engaging in censorship, as part of a broader corporate accountability strategy.
Provide legal advice to CEOs, General Counsels, and other business leaders on issues related to censorship, free expression, and corporate responsibility.
Assist in building, equipping, and advising networks of ideologically aligned business leaders and allies to resist and counter censorship pressures in the corporate and financial sectors.
Assist in drafting model legislation, preparing expert testimony, and testifying on legislation and regulations concerning corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
Handle media interviews and public speaking engagements related to corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
Work collaboratively within ADF and with external allies, coalition partners, and subject-matter experts to advance shared objectives.
Contribute to public-facing strategy discussions, campaigns, and initiatives related to censorship, in coordination with communications and coalition partners.