Family and Victim Support Counsel

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Position Description

TITLE
:
Family and Victim Support Counsel

LOCATION
:
Alexandria, VA or potential for remote location

DATE PREPARED
:
July 2026

FLSA
:
Exempt

DIVISION
:
Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)

TRAVEL REQUIREMENT
:
Minimal, less than 15%

HOURS AND SCHEDULE
:

Generally, Monday – Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm (ET) (minimum 37.5 hours within five days per week). Ability to work flexible hours to facilitate communications with individuals in different time zones is required. If remote, ability to travel to NCMEC HQ in Alexandria, VA at least quarterly for meetings is required.

REPORTS TO
:

Chief Legal Officer

RESPONSIBILITY FOR PUBLIC CONTACT
:

Regular contact requiring attention to detail and time sensitivity, courtesy, empathy, discretion, and sound judgment.

SUMMARY
:

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.

The programs and services this role will be responsible for include the following: (1) provision of legal technical assistance and support relating to legal issues concerning, and legal remedies and relief available to, survivors of child sexual exploitation; (2) response to requests for legal referrals to assist survivors of child sexual exploitation on restitution and ancillary legal issues; (3) partnering with NCMEC’s pro bono legal support to develop, maintain, and expand relevant legal resources, including attorney networks, legal compendiums, handbooks, trainings, and related materials;

(4) provision of legal technical assistance and updates to NCMEC staff and at external trainings on issues and updates relating to legal remedies and relief available to children victimized by sexual exploitation, specifically civil and criminal restitution, victim services, expungement/vacatur, and related relief; (5) strategizing with NCMEC staff and external partners to create new, and improve existing, legal programs and resources relating to restitution and ancillary legal issues to support children victimized through online child sexual exploitation;

and (6) provision of high level support on issues relating to domestic and international family abductions, as needed.

Substantive legal issues will include civil and criminal issues relating to survivors of online child sexual exploitation including victim notification; restitution and availability of additional victim resources at the federal, state, and local levels and family and juvenile law. The position will work closely with members of NCMEC’s Exploited Children Division and Family Advocacy Division and other operational divisions at NCMEC in addition to the Office of Legal Counsel to ensure that goals and deliverables conform to NCMEC’s broader legal priorities and are aligned with NCMEC’s public policy and legislative initiatives.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND 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…