Employment
The Center currently has two open leadership positions - the Associate Director, Legal Representation, and the Center Deputy Director.
Associate Director, Legal Representation
The Associate Director will lead the Center’s Legal Representation Program area. This individual will implement a vision for the ABA’s role in the parent representation movement in family and juvenile courts throughout the United States. The Associate Director will also support the Center’s work focused on high quality legal representation for children, agencies, and tribes in child welfare proceedings. The individual will work in multiple jurisdictions to improve access to justice through preventive legal advocacy, multidisciplinary representation, and appellate practice. The Associate Director will serve in executive leadership roles on the National Alliance for Parent Representation (NAPR) and the Family Justice Initiative (FJI), and will have a lead role in planning national conferences on parent representation and access to justice.
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Center Deputy Director
The Deputy Director will partner with the Center Director to manage a diverse portfolio of grant projects and core operations, support the full Center staff, and advance ABA-wide initiatives that connect to the Center’s mission. The Deputy will partner regularly with each Center program leader to facilitate business needs and implement a strategic vision for operations with annual and multi-year growth projections across a wide range of projects. As a primary point person within the larger Association, the Deputy will regularly communicate with other ABA departments such as Human Resources, Financial Services, and General Counsel. The individual will also build partnerships with other ABA sections, divisions, and commissions to ensure the Center’s work is closely coordinated with the ABA’s expansive and powerful membership network of roughly 300,000 legal professionals.