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Full-Time Positions


Graphic Designer/Digital Media Specialist

Salary

$50,000.00 — $60,000.00 Per Year

  • Full Time
  • Immediate Start

The Death Penalty Information Center seeks a graph­ic designer/​digital media spe­cial­ist to join our team. The Graphic Designer will be respon­si­ble for updat­ing and improv­ing our visu­al resources by pro­duc­ing cus­tom illus­tra­tions, devel­op­ing /​revis­ing data visu­al­iza­tions, enhanc­ing our brand image, pro­duc­ing com­pelling social media info­graph­ics, and design­ing inter­ac­tive web­site fea­tures. The ide­al can­di­date will be able to cre­ate a strong visu­al lan­guage that will make our web­site, pre­sen­ta­tions, and print­ed mate­ri­als approach­able and com­pelling. They will work close­ly with our Digital Director to imple­ment new ideas as well as assist in devel­op­ing and imple­ment­ing our human-com­put­er inter­ac­tion road map. This is a one-year posi­tion, with a pos­si­bil­i­ty of renewal.

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Deputy Director

Salary

$100,000.00 — $125,000.00 Per Year

  • Full Time

For more than 30 years, the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) has been the lead­ing source of infor­ma­tion for media, pol­i­cy­mak­ers, and the pub­lic on issues con­cern­ing cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. DPIC now seeks to hire a Deputy Director to work with the Executive Director in set­ting and imple­ment­ing orga­ni­za­tion­al pri­or­i­ties, poli­cies, and pro­ce­dures. They will super­vise and direct the work of staff, coor­di­nate pro bono sup­port, lead spe­cial projects, and plan major events and reports. The Deputy Director will also pro­vide orga­ni­za­tion­al lead­er­ship on racial equi­ty ini­tia­tives and strate­gic plan­ning, and man­age writ­ing, research, data col­lec­tion, and data val­i­da­tion projects. A detailed descrip­tion of the duties, qual­i­fi­ca­tions, and salary range can be found here.

The posi­tion is locat­ed in Washington, DC, with a hybrid sched­ule. Please note that appli­cants must reside in Washington, DC, Virginia, or Maryland or be will­ing to relocate.

DPIC strong­ly encour­ages appli­ca­tions from his­tor­i­cal­ly dis­ad­van­taged groups, includ­ing Black peo­ple, Indigenous peo­ple, peo­ple of col­or, LGBTQ+ peo­ple, and for­mer­ly incar­cer­at­ed people.

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Internships


Spring 2025 Legal Intern

  • Intern
  • Start Date: 1/15/2025

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is seek­ing a law stu­dent for a Spring 2025 intern­ship. Applications are due ASAP but no lat­er than October 31, 2024. 

The intern­ship will be hybrid, with both remote and in-per­son pos­si­bil­i­ties for local stu­dents. While we would pre­fer a hybrid work sched­ule, we are open to ful­ly remote interns. Law stu­dents will con­duct legal research about the death penal­ty. The research top­ics may include dif­fer­ences between state cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment sys­tems, pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al mis­con­duct, gov­ern­men­tal trans­paren­cy, the con­sid­er­a­tion of mit­i­ga­tion evi­dence, and racial bias in the admin­is­tra­tion of the death penal­ty. With super­vi­sion by DPI staff, the legal interns will be guid­ed in per­form­ing legal research, writ­ing mem­os on select­ed top­ics, mon­i­tor­ing lit­i­ga­tion devel­op­ments, and con­duct­ing cross-juris­dic­tion­al analyses.

Applicants should have an inter­est in the Center’s work of serv­ing the media and the pub­lic with analy­sis and infor­ma­tion on issues con­cern­ing cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment.The law intern­ships are part-time, unpaid posi­tions, but we are will­ing to work with your uni­ver­si­ty for intern­ship cred­it. 

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Law Fellowships


The Death Penalty Information Center is open to requests to host grad­u­at­ing law school stu­dents from any ABA-accred­it­ed law school for post­grad­u­ate fel­low­ships that are par­tial­ly or ful­ly fund­ed by an out­side source. Please con­tact careers@​deathpenaltyinfo.​org if you are inter­est­ed in explor­ing this oppor­tu­ni­ty with DPIC.