About the Role
The Animal Activist Legal Defense Project (AALDP) at the Sturm College of Law seeks a Communications Director to build and manage a communications program to advance its work. The Communications Director will establish a plan and put into place practices for promoting AALDP’s cases and projects across earned and owned media; raising the Project’s profile among fellow animal advocates; and involving law students in AALDP’s work. This position will also require event planning and non-communications tasks, such as overall project management, budgeting, and other tasks to be determined by the AALDP Faculty Director.
About the Organisation
A national leader in experiential and interdisciplinary legal education, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law is widely regarded as one of the nations most innovative and ascendant law schools. Located in a beautiful, distinctive, and economically dynamic city, the Sturm College of Law offers full- and part-time JD programs, a set of pioneering and nationally recognized Masters degree programs, and certificate programs in animal law, constitutional rights and remedies, corporate and commercial law, environmental and natural resources law, intellectual property law, international law, and workplace law. The law school features a faculty of nationally recognized scholar-teachers, an outstanding and diverse student body, an accomplished and highly professional staff, and roughly 17,000 alumni who have achieved careers of distinction in law, business, government, public interest, and other professional domains.
Through research, teaching, and public engagement, the Animal Law Program at the Sturm College of Law seeks to elevate awareness about the well-being of non-human animals and to prepare the next generation of professionals to engage with the legal and moral issues surrounding the use of animals for food, entertainment, experimentation, and fashion. In 2022, supported by a generous set of gift funds, the Animal Law Program plans to develop an Animal Activist Legal Defense Project to provide legal representation and strategic communications support for activists engaged in investigations, protests, rescues, and other forms of action that seek to advance the welfare of non-human animals.