Policy Director

Position:
Policy Director

Status:
Full Time, Exempt

Location:

This position can be remote or work out of TLC’s offices in Oakland or Brooklyn

Reports to:

Executive Director or Executive Director’s Designee

Salary:
Our compensation model is designed to promote equity and alignment with our values. This includes salary adjustments for geographic differences in cost of living and living wages. Below are example locations and their salary ranges for this position.

• Atlanta (Base Salary Range): $155,790-$161,290
• New York: $162,940-$168,440
• Los Angeles: $167,945-$173,445

Note:

We’re thrilled by the interest in this role! To help our team manage the volume of applications, we kindly ask that you avoid calling or emailing to check on your status. We’ll be sure to reach out if you’re selected to move forward.

Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national, trans‑led organization working to set all people free. We champion the rights of all transgender and gender‑nonconforming people to make their own choices and live freely, safely, and authentically. Prioritizing BIPOC, disabled, and HIV+ communities, we advance community‑driven strategies that harness trans knowledge, power, and joy to ensure that we all not only survive but thrive at all ages and phases of life.

You can learn more about our work nsgenderlawcenter.org.

Transgender Law Center is seeking an experienced and motivated Director of Policy to join our team working at the heart of a movement of transgender and gender nonconforming people and allies to change laws, policies, and attitudes to ensure that we can all live as our authentic selves.

The Director of Policy will work collaboratively with Transgender Law Center’s Legal, Communications, Programs, and Narrative teams to oversee and coordinate TLC’s political strategy on the federal, state, and local level. The Director of Policy will work to maintain TLC’s reputation as a legal expert with a critical analysis throughout all of TLC’s policy work. Further, the Director will ensure TLC’s policy strategy is community driven and centered in our work with Black migrants, Black trans women and Black trans femmes, disability justice, transgender people living with HIV, youth and transgender community in the south and mid‑west.

• Develop and build out TLC's policy department and supervise a multidisciplinary policy team, including the Deputy Director of Policy and other policy staff providing leadership, mentorship, performance management, and professional development using trauma‑informed and equity‑centered management practices, with attention to workload sustainability and political burnout.
• Supervise, review, analyze and track legislation, provide technical assistance, and develop policy recommendations.
• Build and advance a strategy on transgender rights across all governmental avenues, including legislation, administrative regulation, and state and local policy.
• Oversee TLC's Policy department to implement legislative and policy strategies rooted in on‑the‑ground community needs and aligned with the Trans Agenda for Liberation and TLC's policy priorities.
• Set policy agendas, lead advocacy campaigns, and align legal/policy efforts with broader organizational goals.
• Meet with lawmakers, testify at hearings, draft legislation, and advocate for pro‑trans laws while opposing harmful ones.
• Streamline and coordinate TLC's legislative efforts to uplift and resource trans‑led advocacy campaigns.
• Formulate TLC policy positions on ongoing and emerging legislative issues, particularly those related to criminalization, immigration, HIV policy, and other TLC priority areas across all 50 states.
• Keep TLC staff updated about federal, state, and local policy developments and solicit input as it relates to specific program areas, including immigration, disability justice, criminalization of trans and allied community and work addressing violence against Black trans communities.
• Develop or supervise the development of policy explainers and educational resources on federal, state, and local policy to be distributed to community partners.
• Provide guidance to TLC…