Democracy Forward

Manager

• Working closely with Executive Office (EO) team members, coordinating on all aspects of the Principal’s domestic and international travel, including flights, hotels, and ground transportation, ensuring compliance with organizational travel policies.
• Proactively address travel disruptions and operational challenges to minimize impact on the Principal's schedule and objectives.
• Assist the Director of Executive Scheduling with planning for security needs for the Principal’s travel and events.
• Provide regular updates on the Principal’s upcoming travel to internal teams to support stakeholder outreach and identification of strategic engagement opportunities involving existing and prospective donors, partners, and organizational allies.
• Maintain comprehensive travel records, expense documentation, and engagement details to support the preparation of executive trip reports.
• Conduct pre-event planning calls and gather logistical information from event organizers to support the preparation of timely and relevant briefing materials for the Principal.
• Work with EO team members to determine supply needs, identify opportunities for Democracy Forward branded materials, and coordinate the sharing and collection of materials at events.
• Liaise with event organizers, external hosts, and others to ensure the Principal’s engagements align with the Organization’s strategic objectives.
• Conduct site visits with event organizers and security to confirm all logistics, operational needs, and production elements and provide pertinent updates to relevant team members and the Principal as needed.
• As directed by EO team members, travel with or arrive in advance of the Principal to ensure seamless arrival and execution of meetings, events, and other engagements.
• Travel with or in advance of the Principal on trips, providing real-time scheduling coordination, communications support, logistical management, and other assistance to ensure successful execution of all engagements.
• Coordinate closely with EO team members to manage schedule adjustments, transition between meetings/events/transportation, and ensure the Principal’s schedule stays consistent throughout the day.
• Provide timely updates to the Principal and EO team members regarding itinerary changes, delays, or emerging issues.
• Travel with and manage key materials including briefing documents, speaking notes, supplies, technology, and other necessary items.
• While traveling, identify and mitigate unexpected issues swiftly and effectively.
• Coordinate with security personnel and relevant stakeholders to facilitate efficient and seamless movement between engagements.
• Assist the Principal and any other traveling staff with sharing and collecting contact information while traveling, making note of follow-ups and action items, and supporting relationship management efforts.
• Provide real-time updates to both the Principal and EO team members on any itinerary changes and proactively address delays.
• Maintain direct communication with the Principal and senior staff to provide real-time updates on event details and status.
• Ensure the Principal has all necessary materials, including schedules, talking points, and background notes.
• Manage on-the-go communications, including handling calls, emails, and in-person briefings.
• Identify and mitigate unexpected issues swiftly and effectively.
• Create checklists for event and trip advance and follow-up so that others can support when additional staff is needed.

Travel and Advance Manager

Attorney

• Track and analyze developments in litigation and other legal actions across a wide range of subject areas related to responding to increasing authoritarianism, abuses of government power, attacks on civil rights, weaponization of government.
• Conduct legal research and analysis of emerging legal issues in response to the changing legal threat landscape.
• Develop written work product, including memoranda, issue area guides, litigation summaries, and similar resources to support the legal advocacy work of the Democracy 2025 community.
• Review and summarize litigation updates to ensure clarity and accuracy.
• Compose written work that analyzes and explains legal issues to generalist audiences.
• Support and participate in Democracy 2025’s work to support partner organizations, including attending regular working group meetings as a representative of the Democracy 2025 team as needed.
• Brief coalition partners and Democracy Forward staff on legal and litigation developments.
• Maintain relationships with partner organizations across the Democracy 2025 network, engaging with sound judgment and professionalism in both one-on-one and coalition settings.
• Collaborate across Democracy Forward teams to ensure coordinated and effective approaches to emerging threats and opportunities.
• Maintain and update litigation tracking databases, ensuring legal issues are tagged and organized accurately and consistently.
• Convert litigation data into regular summary reports in digestible, clear, and coherent manners.
• Support the team’s public-facing litigation tracking and analysis.
• Proactively monitor litigation trends, current events, and the activities of relevant organizations and agencies.

Staff Attorney, Democracy 2025

• Support the Director of Regulatory Affairs & Legal Research in monitoring federal regulatory activity, including proposed rules, executive actions, and other administrative actions.
• Analyze proposed rulemakings and administrative actions to identify opportunities for engagement.
• Draft public comments, responses to requests for information, and other regulatory submissions.
• Assist in coordinating timely responses to regulatory actions, including partner engagement and related advocacy materials.
• Help maintain systems for identifying, tracking, and prioritizing rulemakings of strategic interest.
• Prepare and deliver verbal and written presentations and briefings on legal and regulatory developments to internal teams and external partners.
• Help build and maintain relationships with partner organizations, policy experts, and external stakeholders to strengthen the broader pro-democracy coalition.
• Conduct rigorous legal research and analysis on emerging administrative, constitutional, and regulatory legal issues to inform Democracy Forward’s litigation and advocacy strategies.
• Draft high-quality legal work product—including legal memoranda, issue area guides, and policy papers—that explain complex legal issues for a range of audiences.
• Support the development and maintenance of internal research infrastructure to enable rapid, high-quality analysis across teams.
• Track legal and policy developments in key issue areas and provide regular updates to internal teams and coalition partners.
• Advance proactive engagement in the pro-democracy movement through research and analysis that supports affirmative litigation, amicus briefs, and coalition partnerships.

Travel and Advance Manager

Staff Attorney, Democracy 2025

Staff Attorney, Senior Attorney – Regulatory Affairs, Legal Research