Executive Director; Washington Washington DC

Executive Director (Washington) job at Global Jobs. Washington DC.

The Charity & Security Network (C&SN) is a resource, legal, policy, and advocacy center for nonprofit organizations (NPOs) focused on defending the civil society space from overreaching national security measures. We work to promote and protect the ability of NPOs to conduct effective programs that support human rights, peace building, and aid civilians in areas of disaster and armed conflict.

In late 2008, C&SN was created to respond to the closing of nonprofit and civil society space and obstacles created by the expansion of counter terrorism laws and policies. C&SN’s more than 200 global members include a cross-section of humanitarian, development, peace building, and faith-based organizations, as well as human rights defenders, civic space activists, lawyers and policy experts.

Coalition Building and

Collaboration:

C&SN reaches out to a range of civil society groups to get input and provide opportunities for participation and collaboration through working groups, email lists, briefings and more.

Research and

Education:

C&SN acts as a hub for information generation and sharing among a wide group of civil society professionals domestically and internationally. C&SN hosts events, monitors and reports on new policy and legal developments, and produces informational and analytical publications documenting and proposing solutions to issues faced by our membership.

Engaging with Policymakers: C&SN regularly engages with executive branch agencies, Congressional offices and committees, UN agencies and Member States, and other multilateral bodies to educate policymakers on the barriers faced by civil society and offer evidence-based policy solutions.

Advocacy: C&SN leads and participates in advocacy campaigns to advance policies and frameworks that protect and enable civil society.

C&SN is a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, which accepts and administers funds, provides financial oversight, and supports human resources and legal elements as needed. The substantive work of C&SN is informed by an Advisory Board, with an Executive Committee providing strategic oversight, including annual reviews of the Executive Director position. The organization currently includes four full-time staff members, two of which are on fixed-term contracts (one project-based and one externally sponsored Fellowship), and a part-time communications consultant.

The Opportunity:

The Executive Director will lead C&SN during an exciting period of growth and development. The organization’s work is expanding to “meet the moment” and respond to new challenges and constraints facing non-profit organizations globally. C&SN has a particular focus on how the enabling environment for civil society organizations is shrinking, including constraints on the effective delivery of programs and services to people in need and how security policy and practices are abused to target human rights defenders, chill public discourse, and constrain humanitarian, peace building and human rights operations.

C&SN’s core thematic portfolios include:

Financial Access: Improving NPOs access to financial services and relationships that are necessary to conduct international transactions and operations, and addressing banking challenges like de-risking to remove current disincentives for banks to provide services to international, national, and local NPOs.

Sanctions: Ensuring humanitarian safeguards in sanctions regimes imposed by the United Nations, the U.S., and the EU, among others, which otherwise inhibit the delivery of lifesaving aid to many countries and assessing the impacts of sanctions on NPO operations.

Material Support: Safeguarding humanitarian assistance and peace building programs to allow aid and peace building work to continue without undue consequences linked to material support provisions, which were designed to prevent material support to designated terrorist entities.

Lawfare: Responding to lawfare attacks on civil society designed to impede their valuable work through lawsuits, deplatforming campaigns, disinformation attacks, false allegations, challenges to organizations’…