KAP 2025-2026 - Communications Associate - National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
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About the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization whose mission is to eliminate compulsory unionism abuses through strategic litigation and public information programs.
The Right to Work principle affirms the right of every American to earn a living without being forced to belong to a union. Despite this principle, millions of workers are compelled to associate with unions to keep their jobs.
Since 1968, the Foundation has provided free legal aid to individual workers to enforce and expand their rights against compulsory unionism. To this end, Foundation attorneys have long been at the forefront of litigating key cases involving the First Amendment, labor law, administrative law, and religious liberties. This includes litigating nearly every major Supreme Court case on compulsory unionism.
Position Overview
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation seeks a self-driven Communications Associate to assist in its communications and development operations.
The Communications Associate will be responsible for writing a variety of material for different audiences. This can include press releases, op-eds, newsletter articles, e-mail updates, video scripts, grant requests and reports, and correspondence with donors. Other tasks may include monitoring and logging media hits, and maintaining records of donor communications.
The position is part of a small communications and development team that works with the Foundation’s legal staff to convey to reporters, to supporters and to the public at large the important work undertaken by the Foundation’s team of 18 attorneys in defense of workers’ individual rights. This role will report to the Vice President responsible for communications and development.
This is a full-time, in-office position based at the National Right to Work Foundation headquarters in Springfield, VA, located on the Capital Beltway.
To Apply
To apply, qualified individuals should submit the following application materials in one PDF document:
Cover letter including:
An introductory paragraph describing three distinct reasons you are drawn to National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s mission and how you came to those beliefs
Salary requirements
Résumé
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