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Senior Counsel, Investigations & Oversight

Lansdowne, VA

Make a difference with us! At Alliance Defending Freedom, we believe God has brought you here for His purpose—to stand for truth and defend the God-given right to live and speak it. Together, we protect religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights. Review our Statement of Faith to ensure we’re a fit for you.

Location: Lansdowne, VA

Team Overview

As Senior Counsel, Investigations & Oversight, you are a vital part of the Counter Censorship Task Force. In this role, you will lead advanced investigative and research initiatives that deepen ADF’s understanding of complex censorship-related systems and inform high-impact litigation, legislation, and oversight efforts.

This position is designed for an attorney with strong investigative instincts, excellent legal judgment, and the ability to synthesize complex information into actionable insight. The role operates upstream of litigation and advocacy, generating the factual record, analysis, and transparency necessary to support effective legal and policy action.

Key Responsibilities

  • Investigations & Systems Analysis

    • Lead investigations into censorship-related systems, networks, and institutional relationships affecting free expression and religious liberty in the United States and internationally.
    • Analyze the structure, governance, funding, and coordination of institutions involved in censorship-related initiatives.
    • Identify patterns, incentives, and structural vulnerabilities relevant to censorship systems.
    • Develop investigative strategies designed to surface actionable information for legal, legislative, and oversight purposes.

    Transparency & Public Records Strategy

    • Design and oversee transparency initiatives, including public records and information requests at federal, state, and international levels.
    • Draft and supervise public records requests and ensure follow-through to secure meaningful production.
    • Coordinate with litigation teams when transparency requests require enforcement or escalation.
    • Analyze materials obtained through transparency efforts and translate them into usable investigative findings.

    Oversight & Accountability Support

    • Produce investigative memoranda, briefing materials, and analytical reports supporting legislative oversight and accountability efforts.
    • Identify opportunities for legislative or governmental oversight related to censorship activity.
    • Support litigation teams by identifying fact patterns and evidentiary developments relevant to potential cases.

    Strategic Collaboration

    • Work closely with other attorneys, researchers, coalition partners, and communications professionals to ensure investigative work supports broader strategic objectives.
    • Advise leadership on investigative priorities and emerging developments.
    • Supervise and mentor investigative staff supporting the Task Force.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • D., licensed to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction
  • 10+ years of relevant experience

Pay & Benefits

At Alliance Defending Freedom, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package to support your well-being and growth. While we do not disclose specific salary ranges, our compensation is competitive with top non-profit law firms. Our benefits include 100% covered medical and dental insurance, medical and dependent care reimbursement, paid disability, long-term care, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan with a 4% company match. We prioritize work-life balance with paid time off and 12 paid holidays each year.

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Statement of Faith

Based on our adherence to the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess with the Christian Church throughout time and around the world the faith expressed in the Apostles’ Creed:

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

Doctrinal Distinctives

Also, based on this confession, we are committed to honoring God by obeying the two Greatest Commandments, loving God and loving neighbor, and based on that commitment and derived from the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess the following as necessary for living the gospel:

  • We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • We believe that the Lordship of Christ requires us as disciples to seek to conform our actions, thoughts, and desires in obedience to Him.
  • We believe God creates each person with an immutable biological sex — male or female — that reflects the image and likeness of God.
  • We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life-long union, and God intends sexual intimacy only to occur within that relationship.
  • We believe God endows all human life with inherent dignity, and it must be respected and protected from conception to natural death.
  • We believe that God has endowed all humans with the natural, and inalienable right of religious freedom to believe, pursue truth, and live within ordered liberty such that no civil government may justly infringe upon it.
  • We believe that God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, calls all of us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him, knowing that He promises us abundant and eternal life.
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