Center for Biological Diversity

Attorney

• Advocate for the conservation of endangered species utilizing administrative and legal tools
• Identify and carry out opportunities to protect endangered species from habitat destruction, pollution, exploitation and other threats through litigation and other advocacy
• Identify, develop, and litigate cases and administrative actions to further campaign goals
• Mentor new program attorneys
• Develop detailed knowledge of the status of endangered species across the country
• Build and maintain relationships with partner organizations, coalitions, government officials, scientists
• Utilize litigation and media campaigns to highlight the threats to imperiled wildlife
• Complete other project work outside of the program as needed to meet changing organizational priorities
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Senior Attorney

Community Manager

• Assist in curating the Center’s social media presence across major and emerging platforms, including planning, scheduling, publishing, monitoring, and optimizing content.
• Treat the Center’s social channels as a living digital publication, ensuring content is timely, accurate, compelling, audience-aware, and aligned with the organization’s mission.
• Help implement social strategies that increase reach, engagement, supporter acquisition, donor conversion, sustainer growth, and membership growth, including broadcast channels, subscriber channels, DM journeys, and more.
• Collaborate with both Senior Online Membership Associates to develop and then implement platform-specific editorial calendars and campaign plans.
• Package organizational priorities, campaign updates, legal wins, scientific information, breaking news, advocacy opportunities, and fundraising messages into engaging social content.
• Write sharp, clear, compelling social copy, captions, hooks, headlines, calls to action, and community-facing messages.
• Identify opportunities to adapt long-form content, email content, reports, press materials, campaign materials, and internal updates into digestible social-first content.
• Coordinate with content producers to publish and distribute videos, graphics, cutdowns, templates, and other creative assets on social channels.
• Monitor platform trends, social conversations, memes, creator formats, algorithm changes, and emerging best practices to recommend timely content opportunities.
• Engage directly with followers and commentors, identify influencers and potential partners.
• Surface emerging trends to inform campaign planning.
• Help maintain channel voice, posting standards, accessibility practices, and quality control across all social platforms.
• Participate in reporting and analyzing metrics on social media performance, including reach, engagement, audience growth, traffic, conversions, and content trends.
• Use performance data to help improve future content, posting strategies, creative formats, audience engagement, and generating reports to communicate that to the entire team.
• Support rapid-response content needs during urgent campaign moments, breaking news, legal developments, or major organizational opportunities.
• Contribute to team project management tools and editorial calendars to help identify needs, deadlines, and production priorities.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Online Membership Associate, Community Engagement

Performance Marketing

• Help implement paid digital campaigns to increase donor acquisition, sustainer growth, donor renewals, upgrades, and overall membership growth.
• Assist with campaign setup, quality assurance, naming conventions, reporting, and publishing across paid digital platforms.
• Support paid advertising efforts across Meta, Google, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, and other emerging or relevant digital channels.
• Develop and execute A/B testing strategies across paid media campaigns, including ad copy, creative, landing pages, audiences, and bidding approaches to improve conversion rates and campaign performance.
• Manage and optimize Google Ads paid search campaigns, including keyword strategy, bid adjustments, search term analysis, negative keyword monitoring, quality score improvements, and ongoing performance reporting.
• Work with the Senior Online Membership Associate to monitor campaign performance, identify trends, and help recommend budget and creative adjustments.
• Work with the Senior Online Membership Associate and Lead Content Producer to support in light graphic creation, video editing, creative versioning, resizing of assets and various other content needs.
• Help manage and track advertising performance against goals, spend pacing, campaign timelines, and performance benchmarks.
• Build and maintain systems for organizing creative assets, campaign links, ad copy, targeting notes, reporting documents, and platform-specific requirements.
• Assist in testing multiple versions of creative, copy, audiences, placements, landing pages, and formats across paid channels.
• Coordinate with content producers to ensure assets are correctly formatted, labeled, delivered, and ready for launch.
• Help identify new paid distribution opportunities, channels, vendors, tools, and platform formats that could support membership growth.
• Participate in reporting and analyzing metrics on digital advertising performance, including acquisition, conversion, engagement, cost, and revenue trends.
• Help customize dashboards and reports to deliver actionable insights on paid ad campaigns.
• Support the production and maintenance of landing pages, tracking links, UTM systems, pixels, tags, and other campaign infrastructure as needed.
• Monitor paid social and digital advertising trends, platform changes, and emerging best practices.
• Contribute to team project management tools, production calendars, and campaign planning processes.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Online Membership Associate, Paid Ads Specialist

Producer

• Help in development and implementation of online campaigns to increase donor acquisition, sustainer growth, donor renewals and upgrades.
• Working with the Lead Content Producer and Senior Online Membership Associate, help set creative and strategic direction of online and social acquisition and fundraising campaigns.
• Produce visually stunning videos and graphics and write moving, powerful copy for deployment in digital ads, landing pages, lightboxes and other Center web properties, as well as postcards, invites and other fundraising letters and donor stewardship pieces.
• Participate in reporting and analyzing metrics on performance across all channels and platforms, with a focus on membership growth, retention, upgrades and sustainer growth.
• Ensure content is vetted, proofread and approved by Center program and communications staff.
• Work with Digital team to identify and collaborate on fundraising opportunities, such as asks in the EEO and action alerts.
• With Acquisition team, help unify the Center’s voice and style across social platforms and other digital channels.
• Design and work directly with vendors to produce print collateral such as quarterly newsletters, event postcard invitations, annual reports and other related collateral.
• Assist in the weekly production of landing pages for email appeals and post-action landing pages.
• Help maintain microsites featuring the Center’s accomplishments and ongoing work.
• Identify opportunities and pilot experiments using new formats and/or platforms to improve fundraising success.
• Stay informed of Center activities as well as news and conservations trends affecting our work in the media.
• Assist with other fundraising and Development duties as assigned.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Content Producer

Legal Assistant

• Research and draft filings and petitions (e.g., notices of intent to sue, complaints, briefs, declarations, regulatory petitions)
• Draft formal comments in response to federal, state, and local agency proposals
• Assist with interviewing experts
• Investigate new matters
• Collaborate with coalitions and partners
• Advocate orally before federal, state, and local agencies (as opportunities arise)
• Observe court arguments and hearings (as opportunities arise)
• Assist with preparing creative media and educational materials for campaigns (as opportunities arise)
• Complete other project work outside of the program as needed to meet changing organizational priorities
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Law Clerk, Fall 2026

• Develop and litigate cases in state and federal court targeted at offshore oil and gas to gain results that will protect marine species and habitats.
• Build relationships and work with policy leaders, conservation organizations, and frontline communities to advance initiatives to phase out and clean-up offshore drilling developments.
• Advocate for administrative and legislative policies through scientific and legal comments, oral testimony, policy analysis, petitions for rulemaking, and effective communications.
• Communicate with the media, decision-makers, the public, allies and opinion leaders through writing, outreach and public speaking.
• Develop expertise in the technical aspects of energy policy, oil production and decommissioning obligations, corporate law related to environmental accountability and compliance, state and federal regulatory bodies and oversight.
• Investigate and monitor offshore drilling activities to watchdog that government regulators and industry operators are adhering to requirements.
• Complete other project work outside of program as needed to meet changing organizational priorities.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Staff Attorney

• Develop and litigate cases for the protection of Alaska’s wildlife, public lands and oceans;
• Draft legal comments on environmental and cultural analyses, permitting processes, proposed rules and other agency actions;
• Regularly and consistently produce high-quality, well-researched, creative, and accurate written legal work;
• Review, analyze, and translate scientific research into legal writing and actions;
• Build and maintain relationships with partner organizations and activists, Alaska Native Tribes and Tribal entities, community members, scientists, agency personnel, and decisionmakers;
• Represent the Center in coalitions and meetings related to active campaigns and litigation;
• Advocate for administrative policies and species and habitat protections by drafting petitions for rulemakings and Endangered Species Act listing and critical habitat petitions;
• Conduct media advocacy, including writing press releases and statements, drafting opinion editorials, and delivering effective interviews to reporters;
• Engage the public through campaign activities such as action alerts and public speaking;
• Collaborate with the Alaska program team on the program’s goals, priorities and strategies;
• May include supervision of law clerks and legal fellows;
• Occasional travel required (meetings, conferences, hearings, oral arguments, field visits, etc.);
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.