LWOP Senior Project Organizer

FIXED-TERM FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY
LWOP Senior Project Organizer
Children’s Rights Division
Multiple Locations Considered
Application Deadline: September 14, 2026

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is seeking a Senior Project Organizer to lead its project on life without parole (LWOP) sentences in California. HRW has worked to eliminate LWOP sentences since 2004, publishing research on the use of the sentence in the US and working to change laws. In 2021, HRW initiated the LWOP Project, a multi-faceted effort to end LWOP for all, including people who were 18 or older at the time of their crime. Central to our work is building leadership capacity of people sentenced to LWOP, with a special emphasis on supporting the leadership of people who had LWOP but have been released from prison. This work includes, among other things, regularly conducting extensive leadership training courses, sponsoring the National LWOP Leadership Council (Council), hosting an interactive, forward-looking website, BeyondLWOP.org, with content that promotes clear messages about LWOP and publishing reports, most recently on the reintegration of people once sentenced to LWOP into society.

The Senior Project Organizer works in the Children’s Rights Division (CRD). The position reports to the Director of Youth Justice for the Children’s Rights Division in our Los Angeles office and will work closely with