Family and Victim Support Counsel

About the role

This position will work cross-divisionally to create, maintain, and expand programs and services to provide legal technical assistance and related legal support to adult survivors and parents/guardians of child survivors victimized by, and victim advocates, attorneys, prosecutors, and child-serving professionals supporting survivors of, the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other forms of online child sexual exploitation, child sex trafficking and domestic and international family abductions.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal technical assistance to parents/guardians of child victims, adult survivors, and child-serving professionals relating to legal resources concerning restitution and other remedies relating to victimization through child sexual exploitation, including CSAM distribution and child sex trafficking.
• Formalize and expand network of attorneys willing to represent: (1) adult survivors or child victims (through their parents/guardians) victimized by CSAM distribution or other forms of online child sexual exploitation, including child sex trafficking, in restitution and related legal matters.
• Manage, draft, and distribute organizational affidavits and related documents requested by legal counsel for adult survivors and child victims in legal proceedings relating to restitution and related remedies concerning CSAM distribution and other forms of online child sexual exploitation, including child sex trafficking.
• Maintain consistent outreach with attorney network, external partners, and related child-serving professionals through newsletters, trainings, case/statutory updates, and other periodic communications.
• Create and maintain databases and summaries of key statutes, laws, and legal resources relating to civil and criminal restitution concerning CSAM distribution and other forms of online child sexual exploitation.
• Strategically review statutory and legal developments to support NCMEC recommendations concerning potential federal and state legislative proposals and initiatives.
• Track and implement updates as needed for organizational PPTs, website content, and legal publications relating to legal support for survivors of child sexual exploitation and assisting in drafting amicus briefs and related policy materials, as needed, relating to NCMEC’s role in providing legal support and technical assistance in this area.
• Partner with the Missing Children Division to create framework for legal technical assistance and support on domestic and international family abduction cases and related issues.
• Work with the Chief Legal Officer and Office of Legal Counsel team on other child protection projects as needed.

Qualifications

• JD and Admission in good standing.
• Minimum of 4-6 years substantive experience handling legal matters relating to child sexual exploitation issues and/or child victim-related matters in a non-profit organization, government agency, legislative office, or similar environment.
• Experience with juvenile legal issues and/or victim advocacy work, including restitution issues and victim remedies, from civil and criminal perspectives.
• Experience creating, developing, and maintaining networks of partners and managing development and delivery of training, written resources, and materials for multiple diverse audiences.
• Experience communicating with adult survivors of sexual exploitation crimes and with prosecutors, law enforcement, victim advocates, and/or private attorneys on sensitive legal issues concerning crimes against children.
• Commitment to developing substantive understanding of NCMEC’s mission and history and relating to programs to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization.
• Demonstrated experience balancing a wide range of short and long-term projects and meeting substantive and complex productivity goals under shifting deadlines.
• Ability to inspire trust and confidence when discussing sensitive matters and to embrace a team approach, including working cross-divisionally, in organizational and strategy discussions.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to perform as a strategic thinker and communicate succinctly and decisively verbally and in writing to a range of legal and non-legal audiences.
• Ability to consistently and successfully maintain workflows, manage multiple projects, and regularly communicate status and progress of work divisionally and cross-divisionally.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively perform legal, statutory, and Internet research.
• Proficiency with basic word processing, project management, and database software tools.
• Diligence and past success in pursuing positive outcomes in difficult situations.
• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to work as part of a team or in an individual capacity.