Job Opportunities - Midwest

ACLU of Kansas | Field Director (Overland Park, KS) [$82,000]

The Field Director will be tasked with sustaining and enhancing a robust, impactful, non-partisan organizing infrastructure to defend and strengthen civil liberties and civil rights. The Field Director reports directly to the Executive Director and plays a key leadership role within the affiliate; the position is not eligible for membership in the affiliate’s collective bargaining unit. The Field Director will also assume responsibility for hiring and supervising the organizing staff, currently comprised of four (4) full-time positions spread across the Kansas City and Wichita metropolitan areas. This position can be located either in Overland Park or in Wichita, though Wichita is preferred. OUF.

ACLU of Kansas | Director of Policy and Research (Overland Park, KS) [$82,000]

The ACLU of Kansas seeks a dynamic, creative, self-motivated team player to serve as its Director of Policy and Research. This senior-level position will oversee the organization’s broad-based policy advocacy, development, and research program at the local and state levels. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, the position may be based either at the ACLU of Kansas’s primary office in Overland Park or a new site in Wichita (preferred). OUF.

ACLU of Kansas | Executive Associate (Overland Park, KS) [$51,000]

The ACLU of Kansas seeks a motivated, capable, and detail-oriented Executive Associate to provide support to the Executive Director. This position will handle a range of administrative, fund-raising support, relationship management, and board administration responsibilities. The Executive Associate will play a critical role in defending and strengthening civil liberties and civil rights by providing essential support, structure, and systems for the organization’s executive department and board leadership. The position requires excellent judgment, superior office and writing skills, and the ability to handle matters of a confidential nature. This is a new position, based in the Overland Park office. OUF.

ACLU of Michigan | Executive Assistant (Detroit, MI) [$62,800]

The ACLU of Michigan seeks an Executive Assistant to support the operations of our Executive and Operations teams in their work as individual teams and in their collaborative work supporting the efficient running of the affiliate offices. This is a full-time, hybrid position, and the ACLU will provide equipment for appropriate remote work. OUF. 

Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) | Staff Attorney – Agricultural Worker and Immigrant Rights (Toledo, OH) [$68,000 - $90,780]

The staff attorney will lead the Agricultural Worker and Immigrant Rights (AIR) work to advance the rights of low-income immigrants and their families in Columbus and Lima, Ohio. The attorney will represent individuals in removal proceedings in Franklin County in humanitarian or family-based immigration applications before USCIS, Cleveland EOIR, the BIA, and federal circuit courts. Such applications include U Visas, T Visas, VAWA self-petitions, adjustment of status, and affirmative and defensive asylum applications. OUF.

Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) | Supervising Attorney - Agricultural Worker and Immigrant Rights Practice Group (Toledo, OH) [$81,000 - $108,202]

Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) seeks a passionate and creative Supervising Attorney to lead its Agricultural Worker Project within the Agricultural Worker and Immigrant Rights (AIR) Practice Group. This leadership role involves supervising legal staff, managing a caseload, and advancing community lawyering strategies to support low-income immigrants and agricultural workers across Ohio. OUF.

Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) | Senior Attorney - Agricultural Worker and Immigrant Rights Practice Group (Toledo, OH) [$81,000 - $108,202]

The Senior Attorney position is a leadership position within the Agricultural Worker and Immigrant Rights (AIR) practice group at ABLE. AIR advocates empower low-income immigrants and agricultural workers through high-quality legal representation, community education, and community organizing. We work for a future where systems are just, and our clients have equal opportunities to thrive in society regardless of where they come from or what type of work they do. OUF.

Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) | Staff Attorney – Housing and Community Economic Development (Toledo, OH) [$68,000 - $90,780]

The Staff Attorney will implement legal strategies designed to improve neighborhoods, increase opportunities for healthy housing and economic viability, and expand and protect tenants’ rights across ABLE’s service area. If you want to use your legal skills to challenge the policies and practices that perpetuate poverty and racial injustice and join a team of similarly motivated staff, then we encourage you to apply. OUF.

Hartenstein Poor & Foster LLC | Associate Attorney (Wichita, KS) [$80,000 - $100,000]

Growing Wichita KS law firm seeks an attorney with a passion for helping people who suffer from addiction. This is a high-volume, fast-paced practice focused on criminal defense, impact litigation, employment issues and family disputes. The ideal candidate has prior experience as a public defender, social services agency attorney or public interest litigator. The firm is focused on addressing fentanyl crisis. Out-of-state lawyers are encouraged to apply. Send resume via email to Sarah@legalhpf.com. OUF.

Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. | Junior Associate – Employment Law/Civil Rights (Chicago, IL) [$100,000 - $120,000]

Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. (HSPRD) seeks an attorney with two to four years of post-law school experience for a Junior Associate position to begin in summer or fall 2025. The associate will work in the firm’s Complex Litigation group, with a practice concentrated in the areas of Civil Rights & Constitutional Law, Employment Law, and False Claims Act cases and maintain an active litigation docket with cases in federal and state courts throughout Illinois and around the country. OUF.

Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy | Associate Legal Assistant (St. Paul, MN) [$44,000 - $48,000]

The Executive Coordinator plays a key role in the daily operations of a strategic and effective environmental nonprofit. The ideal candidate has a strong interest in our mission and is comfortable managing up. The Executive Coordinator works directly with the CEO to track and organize individual and organizational priorities, ensure preparations for meetings, and execute detailed completion of special projects. The Executive Coordinator must be comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy designing and driving projects in a way that provides clarity. The Executive Coordinator will interact with donors, board members, and the public through email and phone, as well as in person. They will manage the CEO’s time and priorities. MCEA is a nimble organization where employees can have a big impact on the way the organization operates. This person will join a team that is committed to working and laughing hard together. Please send your resume and cover letter to hr@mncenter.org by July 11, 2025 for priority consideration. Please also indicate in your e-mail where you located this job posting. You must submit all materials directly to this email address – no applications via third party website (such as Indeed) will be accepted.

Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy | Staff Attorney (St. Paul, MN) [$88,000 - $93,000]

MCEA, Minnesota’s leading public-interest environmental law firm, seeks an attorney with three to six years of experience to join our team of powerful, mission-driven, in-house litigators. The Staff Attorney will litigate in state and federal courts and administrative agencies and provide legal advice to MCEA and other clients. In addition to litigation, the Staff Attorney will assist with legislative and administrative advocacy, coordinate with outside pro bono counsel, law clerks, concerned citizens, and other advocacy organizations, work with the Legal Committee of MCEA’s Board, and provide assistance to MCEA’s leadership, development staff, and communications team. OUF.

Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy | Legislative Director (St. Paul, MN) [$75,000 - $81,000]

We seek an experienced government relations professional who shares our mission, vision, and values, understands Minnesota’s environmental laws, and knows how to make change at the Minnesota Legislature. The Legislative Director works with MCEA staff to help create a strategic legislative agenda and is responsible for implementing that strategy at the Minnesota Capitol. We also seek to create greater engagement with our legislative agenda among our supporters. OUF. 

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