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FarmSTAND is the only legal project in the country dedicated solely to taking on industrial animal agriculture. We’re focused on dismantling the structures that enable the consolidation of corporate power and extractive practices in our food system and we support a vision of animal agriculture that is regenerative, humane, and owned by independent farmers. We believe we cannot make change alone, and that we must align ourselves with allies across movement sectors. In these partnerships, we combine litigation with base building and storytelling to create meaningful change.

FarmSTAND is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and progressive workplace. People of color, LGBTQ applicants, people with disabilities, and veterans are all strongly encouraged to apply. 

Open Positions

Legal Administrative Assistant

Communications Director

About the position

The Legal Administrative Assistant provides crucial administrative and event support to the organization and assists FarmSTAND’s staff with legal and administrative tasks as needed. This role plays a key part in ensuring the efficient functioning of our organization and supporting our advocacy and events. 

Key Responsibilities

• Calendar Management: Manage the organization’s calendar in tandem with our Paralegals, schedule appointments, and coordinate meetings.
• Office Operations: Oversee day-to-day remote office operations, including managing phone calls and messages, ordering supplies, maintaining files and records, managing mail and shipping, and supporting our staff with vendor management and invoices.
• Event Management: Support event planning and management for organization-related events, including scheduling, logistics, and coordination both in the planning phase and during the event. Support meeting follow up with excellent notetaking, note synthesis, and ensuring task follow ups are communicated in a timely fashion.
• Legal Document Preparation: Assist in formatting and proofreading legal documents and reports, draft basic correspondence, and create binders and exhibits. 
• Research: Assist with advocacy-related research as needed and prepare summaries of findings.
• Meeting Support: Assist in preparing meeting agendas, materials, and presentations. Attend and take minutes during key meetings, and follow up on action items.
• Data Management: Maintain databases and records, ensuring they are up to date and well-organized, including supporting our Paralegals with legal case files and client records management.
• Travel and Logistics: Make travel arrangements, accommodations, and coordinate logistics for meetings, conferences, and events attended by the staff.
• Special Projects: Support special projects, both administrative and legal/advocacy in nature, as directed by the Management Team.
• Hiring: Support staff with hiring, including posting positions, sorting resumes, responding to inquiries, and calendaring interviews. Manage employee onboarding.
• Timekeeping: Record staff billable time and support attorneys with billable time entry; prepare time reports as requested.

Desired skills

• Organizational skills and ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Event planning experience, particularly around logistics and vendor management
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work collaboratively with team members as well as with consultants and vendors
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote)
• Familiarity with Microsoft Teams
• Proficiency in data management 
• Attention to detail

Work structure: This is a full-time, exempt position, with a salary range of $50,000 to $60,000. Salary offer will be dependent on experience.  

Benefits: We provide 17 days of paid vacation, 8 days of sick leave, all federal holidays, additional FarmSTAND holidays, employer-paid health, dental and vision insurance, and a 401(k) plan.   

To Apply: Send your resume and cover letter to jobs@farmstand.org. FarmSTAND is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and progressive workplace. People of color, LGBTQ applicants, people with disabilities, and veterans are all strongly encouraged to apply.  Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled

About the position

The Communications Director contributes to FarmSTAND’s communications and basebuilding goals through content creation, management of day-to-day communications needs related to press as well as digital platforms, collaboration with the litigation department and external coalition partners, and logistical support for communications and basebuilding projects.

What are we looking for?

The ideal candidate for this position is a strong writer with a deep understanding of how traditional and digital media shape people’s understanding of issues and may be leveraged to influence targets. This person should have experience managing staff and vendors, as they will help build the communications team for FarmSTAND. This position requires strategic thinking, an interest in creative and innovative communications, and the ability to manage and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on communications products and projects.

A skilled communicator who’s interested in the intersectionality of our work would excel in this position, as we intend for our content to tell stories that challenge the dominant narratives about food, farming, and the environment. We want to hear your ideas about how to engage different audiences, and how to expand people’s understanding of issues surrounding food, farming, work, climate, racial inequity, and more. You should be interested in people and building relationships, as the work of the FarmSTAND depends on our ability to create lasting, trusting relationships with grassroots organizations whose members are directly impacted by industrial animal agriculture. Familiarity with impact litigation and legal advocacy, and the proven ability to convey complex ideas clearly, are important for this position.

Key responsibilities

• Develop communications strategies to support the advocacy goals of FarmSTAND, including narrative and message development, audience identification, press and digital strategy
• Work closely with Outreach and Organizing and Litigation Managing Directors to support the organization’s litigation and basebuilding goals
• Hire and supervise staff and vendors to support the communications needs of the organization
• Increase the organization’s capacity to write and release impactful communications products that will influence media coverage of issues relating to FarmSTAND’s litigation and issue areas
• Manage the development of written and visual content to support the communications and base building needs of FarmSTAND
• Coordinate with external coalition partners on aligned narrative and message development as well as campaigns

Desired skills

• Extensive experience in advocacy communications for nonprofits or political campaigns
• Understanding of and experience communicating litigation and legal advocacy
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work collaboratively with team members as well as with external partners
• Experience navigating and collaborating with multiple external partners on communications projects and deliverables
• Organizational skills and ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated ability to write and edit persuasive materials
• Team-oriented with the ability to work well independently and remotely

Work structure: This is a full-time, exempt position, with a salary range of $85,000 to $100,000. Salary offer will be dependent on experience.

Benefits: We provide an outstanding benefits package that includes 14 days of annual leave, 8 days of sick leave, and holidays; employer-paid health, dental and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with an employer contribution and more!

To Apply: Send your resume, cover letter, and a writing sample or portfolio to jobs@farmSTAND.org. Writing samples ideally contain both press-related (a pitch, press release) and web/social media content. FarmSTAND is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and progressive workplace. Women, people of color, LGBTQ applicants, people with disabilities, and veterans are all strongly encouraged to apply.