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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.