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Administrative Assistant

Location: Phoenix, AZ (In-Office Required)

Our Mission

Our mission’s simple: every child deserves a safe, loving home, and we’re making that real. The Center for the Rights of Abused Children brings Americans together to do more and change more for abused children—because every child deserves a safe and loving home. Our work has already protected more than one million children, and we won’t stop until every child is safe and loved.

Position Overview

Join the Center for the Rights of Abused Children as our Administrative Assistant, a senior support role for an experienced professional who runs the organization’s operating rhythm—meetings, projects, and documents—with minimal oversight. This is not an entry-level position. We are looking for someone who exercises independent judgment, anticipates needs before they’re raised, uses AI and technology to work smarter, and owns processes end to end rather than waiting to be told what to do next. The ideal candidate is exceptionally detail-oriented, takes precise notes, and follows through on every commitment without being asked twice. You’ll be trusted with sensitive information and high-stakes moments, so accuracy, discretion, and sound judgment matter as much as speed.

Key Responsibilities

Project & Document Management: Drive multiple ongoing projects to completion and prepare, format, and proofread documents, presentations, and reports with meticulous attention to detail. This is a core, heavily weighted part of the role.

AI & Process Efficiency: Use AI tools and technology to streamline notetaking, document preparation, and administrative workflows, proactively identifying opportunities to work faster and more accurately.

Meeting Support & Notetaking: Prepare agendas, attend key meetings, and take clear, accurate notes that capture decisions and action items—then track those action items to completion, following up proactively across departments.

Correspondence & Stakeholder Communication: Draft, proofread, and manage correspondence on behalf of the organization, and support communications with donors, clients, board members, and other stakeholders as needed, maintaining a professional and consistent voice.

Vendor Coordination: Serve as a point of contact for vendors and service providers, coordinating scheduling, deliverables, and follow-through.

Calendar & Meeting Scheduling: Plan and schedule meetings, exercising judgment to prioritize and resolve conflicts without direction.

Qualifications

Seniority: This is a high-level position, not an entry-level one. We’re looking for a seasoned professional who can operate with autonomy from day one, not someone who needs to be trained into judgment.

Autonomy & Judgment: Demonstrated ability to prioritize, make decisions, and manage competing demands independently, without step-by-step direction.

Detail-Oriented: A track record of catching the small things others miss, with near-zero tolerance for typos, scheduling errors, or dropped follow-ups.

Strong Notetaker: Able to distill fast-moving conversations into clear, organized, and actionable notes in real time.

Execution-Focused: A reliable finisher who takes ownership of tasks and projects from start to finish and communicates proactively on status.

Tech-Forward: Comfortable using AI tools and new technology to increase efficiency and accuracy, with a proactive interest in adopting better ways of working.

Experience: 5+ years in a senior administrative, executive support, or operations role, ideally supporting leadership in a fast-paced environment.

Location: Must be based in Phoenix and thrive in an in-office environment.

Professional Standards: Commitment to maintaining excellent communication standards and discretion with confidential information.

Mission-Driven: A deep, principled love for protecting abused children and a passion for making a lasting difference in their lives.

Benefits

Join a nationally recognized team with awards including the Norman Borlaug Humanitarian Award and the GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency.

This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, providing you the opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of children across the country.

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Vice President of Membership & Annual Giving

Our Mission

Our mission’s simple: every child deserves a safe, loving home, and we’re making that real. The Center for the Rights of Abused Children brings Americans together to do more and change more for abused children—because every child deserves a safe and loving home. Our work has already protected more than one million children, and we won’t stop until every child is safe and loved.

Position Overview

Join the Center for the Rights of Abused Children as our Vice President of Membership & Annual Giving, where you will own and grow the membership and annual giving side of our fundraising program. This role is focused on the broad base of our donor pipeline—acquisition, renewal, and upgrade of members and annual donors. We’re looking for a strategic, entrepreneurial fundraiser who can bring new ideas to the table, build a real annual fundraising plan, and then execute it. This is a build-and-run role: you’ll be as comfortable setting the strategy as you are getting a direct mail campaign out the door.

Key Responsibilities

Annual Fundraising Strategy & Planning: Build and own a comprehensive annual fundraising plan for membership and annual giving, including goals, calendar, channel mix, and revenue targets.

Revenue Budget Ownership: Build the annual revenue budget for membership and annual giving and take full ownership of hitting it—tracking pacing throughout the year and adjusting strategy as needed to stay on target.

Membership Program Growth: Design and grow the membership program end to end—new member acquisition, upgrade paths, and retention—bringing fresh ideas rather than just maintaining what exists.

Campaign Execution: Plan and execute direct mail, email, and digital fundraising campaigns, coordinating with outside vendors and contractors as needed.

Donor Retention & Renewal: Manage the renewal cycle and lapsed-donor reactivation for members and annual donors, with a clear stewardship cadence that keeps donors engaged.

Data & Performance Reporting: Track campaign and program performance, segment donor data to inform strategy, and report results to leadership with recommendations for what to do next.

Innovation: Identify and test new fundraising tactics—monthly giving, peer-to-peer, digital acquisition, and similar—to grow membership revenue over time.

Qualifications

Fundraising Experience: 5+ years in annual giving, membership fundraising, or direct response fundraising, with a track record of growing a donor program.

Strategic & Entrepreneurial: Able to build a fundraising plan from scratch and bring original ideas, not just execute a playbook handed to you.

Budget Accountability: Comfortable building a revenue budget and owning it—forecasting, tracking against target, and course-correcting to make the number.

Execution-Focused: A reliable finisher who takes a plan from concept through to a completed, measurable campaign.

Data-Driven: Comfortable working with donor data and CRM systems to segment audiences, track results, and make decisions.

Mission-Driven: A deep, principled love for protecting abused children and a passion for making a lasting difference in their lives.

Benefits

Join a nationally recognized team with awards including the Norman Borlaug Humanitarian Award and the GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency.

This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, providing you the opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of children across the country.

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Director of External Affairs

Our Mission

Our mission’s simple: every child deserves a safe, loving home, and we’re making that real. The Center for the Rights of Abused Children brings Americans together to do more and change more for abused children—because every child deserves a safe and loving home. Our work has already protected more than one million children, and we won’t stop until every child is safe and loved.

Position Overview

Join the Center for the Rights of Abused Children as our Director of External Affairs, where you will keep us informed on the policy landscape affecting abused children and build the outside relationships that make our work possible. This role tracks and analyzes policy developments to keep leadership informed, and owns our relationships with policymakers, coalition partners, and other external stakeholders. You’ll represent the organization externally, build real partnerships, and help translate our work on the ground into stronger outside relationships and greater reach. We’re looking for someone who can build real relationships, understand a complex policy landscape, and move from insight into action.

Key Responsibilities

Policy Monitoring & Analysis: Track and analyze federal and state legislation and policy affecting abused children, and keep leadership informed with clear, timely analysis to support decision-making.

Government & Legislative Relations: Build and maintain relationships with legislators, policymakers, and government agencies, representing the organization in meetings, hearings, and briefings.

Coalition Building: Build and maintain relationships with allied organizations, advocacy groups, and coalition partners, identifying opportunities for joint advocacy and shared impact.

External Relations & Representation: Serve as an external face of the organization with partners, policymakers, and stakeholders, building the relationships that expand our reach and influence.

Strategic Communications Support: Work with the communications team to ensure public messaging reflects current policy developments, and help translate policy and coalition work into compelling external communication.

Research & Briefing Materials: Produce clear briefs, talking points, and summaries of policy developments for leadership, board, and external audiences.

Qualifications

Policy & Government Relations Experience: 5+ years in policy analysis, government relations, or advocacy.

Relationship Builder: A track record of building and sustaining real relationships with policymakers, coalition partners, and external stakeholders.

Strong Analyst: Able to read a complex policy landscape and translate it into clear, digestible analysis for leadership.

Strong Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable representing the organization in high-stakes external settings.

Execution-Focused: A reliable finisher who moves from insight to concrete relationship-building and follows through on commitments.

Travel: Willing and able to travel regularly for meetings, hearings, and coalition events.

Mission-Driven: A deep, principled love for protecting abused children and a passion for making a lasting difference in their lives.

Benefits

Join a nationally recognized team with awards including the Norman Borlaug Humanitarian Award and the GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency.

This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, providing you the opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of children across the country.

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Director of Corporate Partnerships

Our Mission

Our mission’s simple: every child deserves a safe, loving home, and we’re making that real. The Center for the Rights of Abused Children brings Americans together to do more and change more for abused children—because every child deserves a safe and loving home. Our work has already protected more than one million children, and we won’t stop until every child is safe and loved.

Position Overview

The Center for the Rights of Abused Children seeks an experienced, driven leader to secure six- and seven-figure corporate partnerships that fund the rescue and protection of abused children nationwide.

This is not a traditional fundraising position.

Across America, companies are choosing causes to champion through cause-marketing campaigns, co-branded products, and multi-year philanthropic commitments. Brands like TOMS built their identity around giving. From new startups to blue-chip companies, businesses are actively looking for a mission their customers believe in. In Hollywood, studios, talent, and their foundations are looking for the same thing: a cause worthy of their platform. Few missions resonate like this one: every child deserves a safe and loving home. And few organizations have had the outsized impact the Center has had, having helped more than 1 million children with pro bono legal advocacy and common-sense reforms.

We are looking for an entrepreneur—a leader who doesn’t wait for doors to open, but finds them, knocks, and walks through.

Qualifications

• Experience: Has at least 5 years of experience in corporate partnerships, cause marketing, business development, or major-gift fundraising, with a track record of closing sizeable agreements.
• Strategic Research: Knows how to research, identify, and prioritize companies whose brands, products, and customers align with child protection.
• Communication: Is a confident, polished communicator who can pitch a CEO, a brand team, or a corporate board with equal ease.
• Business Development: Is a true hunter who can go in cold—identify the right company, find the right decision-maker, get the meeting, and close the deal without waiting for an introduction or leaning on the CEO.
• Relationship Building: Can also take a warm introduction—from our board, our leadership, or our supporters—and convert it into a structured, lasting partnership.
• Partnership Development: Understands how to design partnership models that work for the company as well as the cause: cause-marketing campaigns, percentage-of-sales programs, co-branded products, employee giving, and multi-year grants.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Is entrepreneurial, self-directed, and relentless—builds their own pipeline, generates their own leads, and follows through until the deal is signed.
• Mission-Driven: Is mission-driven and can speak about our work—pro bono legal advocacy and common-sense protections for abused children—with fluency and conviction.

Key Responsibilities

• Corporate Partnership Pipeline: Building and managing a pipeline of corporate partnerships.
• Proposal Development: Developing tailored partnership proposals, sponsorship packages, and cause-marketing concepts.
• Partnership Management: Negotiating and closing partnership agreements, then stewarding those relationships to renewal and growth.
• Ambassador Cultivation: Cultivating ambassadors who can lend their voice, platform, and networks to the mission.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborating with our communications team to deliver the visibility, storytelling, and impact reporting partners expect.
• External Representation: Representing the Center at industry events, corporate meetings, and speaking engagements.
• Reporting: Reporting on pipeline, revenue, and partnership outcomes to the CEO and Executive Director.

Benefits

Join a nationally recognized team with awards including the Norman Borlaug Humanitarian Award and the GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency.

The Center offers flexible scheduling and a mission-driven, family-friendly work environment.

Our work has helped more than one million children. With the right corporate partners, we can help millions more—and we are looking for the person who will bring those friends to the table.

Job Opportunities

Constitutional Litigator — Children’s Right

The Center for the Rights of Abused Children seeks an experienced constitutional litigator to help build a nationwide jurisprudence of children’s rights.

This is not a traditional child welfare position.

We are developing strategic litigation aimed at securing and enforcing the constitutional rights of abused and abandoned children in state and federal courts across the country. Our cases involve questions of due process, equal protection, family integrity, permanency, state accountability, property rights, access to counsel, transparency, educational opportunity, and the constitutional limits on government power affecting children and families.

We are looking for a lawyer who has spent years in the trenches of serious civil litigation — someone comfortable taking difficult cases, developing novel legal theories, litigating against government actors, building appellate records, and thinking several moves ahead.

The ideal candidate:

• Has at least 5 years of substantial constitutional, civil rights, appellate, or impact litigation experience;
• Has significant experience in federal court;
• Writes exceptionally well, exercises sound judgment, and thinks strategically;
• Is intellectually curious, entrepreneurial, and mission-driven;
• Is willing to challenge entrenched legal doctrines and conventional assumptions;
• Believes constitutional text and structure matter;
• Understands the judiciary’s role in enforcing constitutional limits on government power;
• Is comfortable litigating high-stakes and potentially precedent-setting cases;
• Can work independently while helping build a long-term litigation strategy.

This position is designed for litigators interested in shaping precedent, not simply processing cases. Experience in child welfare or dependency law is helpful but not required. We are more interested in exceptional litigators than subject-matter specialists.

The position will involve:

• Building and litigating constitutional cases at every stage of litigation — in both state and federal courts — including investigation, pleadings, discovery, motion practice, evidentiary hearings, trial, and appeal;
• Developing affirmative litigation campaigns;
• Working with co-counsel, law firms, academics, and nonprofit partners nationwide;
• Investigating and developing new cases;
• Travel for hearings, trials, strategy meetings, and speaking engagements.

Remote work may be available for candidates with the right experience and demonstrated ability to operate independently.

The Center offers flexible scheduling and a mission-driven, family-friendly work environment. We are building something ambitious, durable, and consequential — and we are looking for lawyers who want to help shape the future of children’s rights law in America.

Job Opportunities

Law Clerks

At the Center for the Rights of Abused Children, you will receive hands-on experience working alongside our legal and policy teams to defend children’s rights in Arizona’s juvenile court through our pro bono Children’s Law Clinic, litigate civil rights cases nationally, and develop impactful legislation for Arizona and beyond. The Center for the Rights of Abused Children law clerks work with our associates to research federal and state child welfare laws, draft pleadings and memos, conduct policy research, participate in legal trainings, and attend court hearings and legislative debates when possible.

Our clerkship program offerings vary by semester.
Summer: Paid law clerk opportunities for second and third year students.
For-credit or volunteer externships for first year students.
Fall & Spring: For-credit or volunteer externships to all students.

Contact Christy du Mee with questions or to submit an application: christy@thecenterforchildren.org. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and must include a letter of interest, résumé including GPA, and a writing sample.