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Sr. Counsel, Director of Strategy & Integration

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

 

This position serves the Global Censorship Group and advances ADF’s strategic objectives to combat corporate and state-sponsored censorship, domestically and globally.

This role combines high-level legal strategy, thought leadership, and public engagement with a mission-integration function, ensuring that ADF’s legal, legislative, coalition, research, and communications efforts related to censorship are strategically aligned, sequenced, and effective.

This position is ideal for a senior attorney who is both a deep strategic thinker and a trusted integrator, capable of helping translate shared strategy into coordinated action across teams while preserving the integrity and expertise of each function.

Key Responsibilities

  • Strategy Development & Mission Integration

    • Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the SVP on organizational censorship priorities, decisions, and challenges.
    • Assist in developing and implementing integrated legislative, regulatory, litigation, coalition, research, and communications strategies addressing corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
    • Assist in developing, executing, and evaluating annual and multi-year strategic plans, including goals, metrics, and reporting.
    • Work in close partnership with senior leadership to help translate agreed-upon strategy into coordinated execution, including aligning timing, sequencing, and priorities across relevant teams.
    • Ensure accountability for censorship initiatives across departments and proactively identify risks and opportunities.
    • Introduce innovative and proactive approaches that solve problems and strengthen and advance the ministry’s mission.

     

    Legal Strategy, Analysis & Advocacy

    • Conduct complex legal research and analysis that leads to legislative, regulatory, and policy solutions addressing corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
    • Conduct complex legal research and analysis that informs litigation strategies designed to combat or expose corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
    • Provide strategic counsel on litigation and other quasi-judicial or administrative agencies of government and coordinate with litigation teams on in- and out-of-court anti-censorship efforts.
    • Conduct legal and topical research and produce memos, articles, and white papers on corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
    • Provide legal strategy and support to shareholders using the proxy process to hold companies accountable for engaging in censorship, as part of a broader corporate accountability strategy.
    • Provide legal advice to CEOs, General Counsels, and other business leaders on issues related to censorship, free expression, and corporate responsibility.
    • Assist in building, equipping, and advising networks of ideologically aligned business leaders and allies to resist and counter censorship pressures in the corporate and financial sectors.
    • Assist in drafting model legislation, preparing expert testimony, and testifying on legislation and regulations concerning corporate and state-sponsored censorship.

     

    Public Engagement & External Leadership

    • Handle media interviews and public speaking engagements related to corporate and state-sponsored censorship.
    • Work collaboratively within ADF and with external allies, coalition partners, and subject-matter experts to advance shared objectives.
    • Contribute to public-facing strategy discussions, campaigns, and initiatives related to censorship, in coordination with communications and coalition partners.

Minimum Qualifications

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