Fellowship Announcement

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence's Legal Action Project, seeks a recent law school graduate with a deferral option from a law firm or post-graduate public interest fellowship funding to fill a fellowship position with the organization. The Brady Center is the nation's leading public interest organization dedicated to preventing gun violence, and its Legal Action Project is the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated to seeking justice for gun violence victims, defending gun laws, and using the courts to reduce gun violence. 

The Fellow will serve as a member of the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project staff. We are flexible about when the position would start, and how long it would last. The Fellow can expect a variety of direct, hands-on experiences and challenging, exciting opportunities to affect public policy in the courts, legislatures, and media, while sharpening and using legal skills.

Responsibilities Include:

• litigation in suits representing gun violence victims and defending gun laws, including discovery, depositions, motions practice, trials, and appeals in courts throughout the country;
• drafting amicus briefs in Second Amendment and other gun-related cases;
• writing policy reports on gun laws, the gun industry, and other gun violence issues;
• analyzing federal, state, and local gun legislation;
• preparing position papers and internet content for Brady;
• working with coalitions of law enforcement, public health, and other groups seeking to prevent gun violence, speaking with media, the public, victims, and lawmakers on Capitol Hill and in state and local governments;
• perform other legal and factual research and writing as assigned.

Qualifications:

A law degree from an accredited law school. (Law students who have not yet graduated will be considered for internship positions.) The ideal candidate will have a creative and able legal mind, persuasive and clear writing skills, and an interest in preventing deaths and injuries caused by guns. Fellows should work well with others, be self-motivated, focused, and bring a pleasant attitude to the office.

Funding:
Unpaid, but will work to satisfy requirements for law firm funding or public interest fellowship funding.

Fellowship based in Downtown Washington, D.C.

Interested candidates should send a resume and cover to either:

By mail to:
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
ATTN: Human Resources / LAP Fellowship
1225 Eye Street, NW Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005

or

By email to jobs@bradymail.org

Subject Line: Law Fellowship

No phone calls, please. EOE/m/f/d/v

Closing Date: Resumes accepted until position is filled.

Overview of the Organizations

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and its legislative and grassroots affiliate, the Brady Campaign and its dedicated network of Million Mom March Chapters, is the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence. We are devoted to creating an America free from gun violence, where all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in our communities.

As the Brady Center, we work to reform the gun industry by conducting research, enacting and enforcing sensible regulations to reduce gun violence, including regulations governing the gun industry. In addition, we educate the public about gun violence through research, litigation, and grassroots mobilization.

As the Brady Campaign, we work to enact and enforce sensible gun laws, regulations, and public policies through grassroots activism, electing public officials who support gun laws, and increasing public awareness of gun violence. Through our Million Mom March Chapters, we work locally to educate, remember victims, and pass sensible gun laws, believing that children have the right to grow up in environments free from the threat of gun violence.

Overview of the Research Department

The Research Department is part of the Marketing and Message Division, which includes fundraising and communications and has one full-time Research Director. The Research Department of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence assures that staff, advocates, and the general public have access to updated, complete and easy-to-understand gun violence prevention research and information relevant to effectively formulating and advocating gun control policies. The Department creates new research and develops knowledge management systems within the organization to facilitate easy access to research materials and other resources by staff and advocates. Finally, the Department develops the constituency of gun violence prevention researchers to keep abreast of developments in the field, to influence their research agendas as possible and to involve them in the activities of the organization as desirable. 

Description of Internship

Interns with the Research Department choose a specific research project to complete during the course of the internship in addition to pitching in on administrative tasks related to research, public affairs, or fundraising.

The following are examples of research projects currently on our docket, and new research projects come up all the time:

• Short reports (2-3 pages) that are part of our “Gun Laws Work” series, e. g. explaining the success of gun control laws in California, New York City, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
• Fact sheet summarizing the research on the lethality of guns relative to other weapons and suicide methods
• Fact sheet summarizing the research on the offensive vs. defensive use of guns
• Updating and expanding the data for our God Bless America poster comparing gun homicide counts and rates for the U. S. and other countries.

An example of administrative projects would be:

• Developing “ready reference tables” of 1) state-by-state and city-by-city rates of homicide and violent crimes, for the last 20 years
• Entering data into the Brady Center Planning Calendar

Interested candidates should send a resume and cover to either:

By email to jobs@bradymail.org

Subject Line: Research Intern

No phone calls, please.

Internship Description

The Intern position works with the Communications, Internet, Research and Fundraising departments that make up the Messaging and Marketing division. The intern will assist in all departments based on current needs. Working with the Director of Internet Advocacy, responsibilities could include monitoring and helping to manage incoming email correspondence from activists, assisting with overall maintenance of the organization’s websites, doing special projects related to new online technology, reviewing and editing digital video for online purposes. 

Working with the Communications Director, communications work could include writing letters to the editors, drafting op-eds, and gathering material and statistic for media requests.

Working with the Research Director, research duties include editing the Brady Research Update, as well as writing overviews of research studies. In the Fundraising department, the position will assist in several areas to strengthen donor relations including conducting online donor research, helping to send mailings and calling prospective donors for fundraising events and maintaining donor records. The Intern will work closely with the Director of Development and Assistant Director of Special Events. 
Duties also may include lobbying or calling Congressmembers, taking material to Congressmembers or their staff and making presentations about the work of the Brady Campaign to student groups. 

Perform other duties as necessary.

Contacts

Has regular contact with donors, activists, and all staff. 

Supervision

Works under the general guidance of the VP of Messaging and Marketing with direct supervision by Department Directors. Provides assistance to other employees in the division when necessary. 

Qualifications

1) Ability to write clearly, concisely and creatively.
2) Excellent interpersonal and communication (both verbal and written) skills.
3) A strong team orientation.
4) High level of initiative.

Interested candidates should send a resume and cover to either:

By email to jobs@bradymail.org

Subject Line: M&M Intern

No phone calls, please.