Innocence Project

Student

• Participating in structured departmental projects
• Supporting departments in their already established work
• Completing defined deliverables
• Engaging in supervised learning activities
• All responsibilities are determined after internal review and departmental approval.

Student Engagement Specialist

Advisor

• Provide ongoing expertise, thought leadership, and strategic vision to various program directors and executive leadership on the role of racial bias and discrimination in the administration of the criminal legal system and the ways in which it contributes to the wrongful conviction of innocent people.
• Build and maintain strong and effective relationships with organizations, academics, researchers, attorneys, organizers, policy advocates and other experts that specialize in the operation of racial bias and discrimination in the criminal legal system and decision making.
• Continuously monitor state and federal court decisions addressing novel and/or significant claims of racial bias and discrimination in (and relating to) criminal justice and the wrongful conviction of innocent people.
• Continuously monitor emerging legal, historical, forensic and social science research and scholarship, and policy landscape regarding the impact of racial bias on decision making especially as applied to the criminal legal system and the wrongful conviction of innocent people.
• Provide regular verbal and written updates, trainings and resources to IP and Center staff regarding relevant research.
• Produce lay and academic publications and original research on the role of race in wrongful convictions, including co-publishing with NYU Center and IP.
• Collaborate with IP Departments on cases, campaigns and strategies involving race, racial bias/discrimination as they lead to wrongful conviction.
• Collaborate with the NYU Center on research and thought leadership regarding race, racial bias/discrimination as they lead to wrongful conviction.
• Attend relevant trainings, conferences and conventions regarding the ways in which racial bias and discrimination in the criminal legal system contributes to the wrongful conviction of innocent people, bring these learnings into the IP’s work and position IP as a participant in and contributor to these larger conversations.

Advisor on Race and Wrongful Conviction

Director

• Lead digital strategy and content for the Innocence Project's highest-stakes communications campaigns including execution and clemency cases, state-based policy reforms, and rapid response to breaking developments.
• Ability to collaborate and partner with colleagues in the legal, social work, and policy teams as well as external partner organizations along with colleagues in the communications team. Commitment to centering the experiences of clients and those in the freed and exonerated community who are closest to the issues we are addressing.
• Translate complex legal and policy issues into accurate, compelling, and accessible public calls to action across the organization’s digital channels (in English and Spanish, where campaigns demand).
• Build grassroots power to convert supporters into advocates and mobilize them to act when it matters most through petitions, calls, emails to decision-makers and during rapid-response moments.
• Maintain and strengthen a rapid-response infrastructure (templates, escalation paths, and on-call team coverage) that allows the organization to mount campaigns with tight deadlines.
• Manage and develop the digital team including the Digital Engagement Specialist and Digital Coordinator, with clear goals, work plans, and a culture that prioritizes both excellent work and well-being. In partnership with the Director of Digital Fundraising, manage and oversee a team of consultants who are deeply engaged in the communications and digital fundraising teams’ day-to-day operations.
• Track and analyze digital communications data to surface what is working and where opportunities lie for setting the IP apart and breaking through the noise on digital platforms.
• Stay abreast of digital trends to ensure our strategies and content are primed for maximum impact. This includes attention to the look and feel of our content along with increasing our searchability and impact. It would also encompass strengthening discoverability across both search (SEO) and AI-generated responses (GEO)

Director, Digital Advocacy and Engagement

People Operations

• Support talent acquisition and development initiatives
• Develop a talent pipeline for current and future job openings
• Communicate with candidates and hiring teams
• Update job description templates to align with organizational values
• General assistance with various HR functions

People & Culture Intern

Strategy

• oversight, management, and supervision of program areas including Post-conviction Litigation, Special Litigation, Social Work, and Intake & Case Evaluation
• serve as a primary thought partner to team of experienced professionals
• manage department staff to encourage alignment, motivation and high performance
• contribute to organization-wide strategic planning and reporting on departmental progress
• model the Innocence Project’s values and promote them within the staff

Chief Program Officer, Exoneration Strategy – Support

Events

• effectively managing department staff to encourage alignment, motivation and high-performance
• contributing to organization wide strategic planning, decision making, and resource allocation
• responsible for achieving departmental objectives and regularly reporting on the department’s progress and outcomes to the Board, senior leadership, and the IP staff during office-wide meetings
• modeling the Innocence Project’s values of an inclusive and respectful workplace and encouraging the same from their staff
• serve as a spokesperson for the Innocence Project, articulating the Innocence Project’s positions on a broad range of issues
• work in close collaboration with the Chief Program Officer, Exoneration Strategy & Support to translate lessons learned from individual cases into systemic interventions and preventive strategies
• cultivate, build and maintain strategic relationships to advance the Innocence Project’s mission

Student Engagement Specialist

Advisor on Race and Wrongful Conviction

Director, Digital Advocacy and Engagement

People & Culture Intern

Chief Program Officer, Exoneration Strategy – Support

Chief Program Officer – Policy, Research, and Prevention