ACLU of Kansas: Deputy Executive Director and Chief Program Officer
Listed on 2026-08-26
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Non-Profit & Social Impact
Community Health, Non-Profit / Outreach, Volunteer / Humanitarian
ACLU of Kansas:
Deputy Executive Director and Chief Program Officer LOCATION
Overland Park OR Wichita, KS
SALARY$150000 - $150000 (Yearly)
COMPANYACLU of Kansas
DEPARTMENTManagement
EMPLOYMENT TYPENon-Profit
MINIMUM LEVEL OF EXPERIENCESenior Leadership (overseeing multiple Department Directors. Ex: Campaign Manager, Coordinated Manager)
JOB DESCRIPTIONABOUT THE ACLU OF KANSAS
The
** American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kansas
** is a non-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to preserving and advancing the civil rights and legal freedoms guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the Kansas Constitution. The ACLU of Kansas works in the state legislature, the courts, and local communities to protect the rights of all people living in Kansas. The organization’s work includes efforts to strengthen and defend First Amendment rights, voting rights, reproductive rights, racial justice, LGBT rights, immigrants’ rights, stopping government surveillance, and reforming the criminal legal system.
The organization currently uses a campaign model where 80% of our efforts and resources are dedicated to two campaigns: voting rights and immigrants’ rights. The remaining 20% of our efforts are devoted to other civil liberties matters as they arise. The ACLU of Kansas often works in broad-based coalitions made up of individuals and organizations from across the political, partisan, and ideological spectrum.
The ACLU of Kansas is an affiliate of the national American Civil Liberties Union, has an annual budget of approximately $4.7 million, and has nearly 40,000 supporters across the state.
The ACLU of Kansas comprises two separate corporate entities, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and the ACLU Foundation of Kansas. Both entities have the same overall mission and share some resources but are separate entities that engage in different types of work to protect civil liberties. The ACLU Foundation of Kansas is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that primarily engages in litigation and public education.
The ACLU of Kansas is a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation that primarily engages in lobbying and advocacy. On a contracted basis, the ACLU of Kansas also provides operational support to Kansans United for Civil Liberties, an IRS Section 527 organization that provides non-partisan, non-endorsing voter education about civil liberties issues in elections for public office.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The
** ACLU of Kansas
** seeks a dynamic, innovative, and seasoned professional to serve as its inaugural
** Deputy Executive Director and Chief Program Officer (CPO)**. The CPO reports directly to the Executive Director and is a member of a senior management team that also includes the Chief Operating Officer and the Chief Development Officer. The CPO will lead the strategic direction, planning, and day-to-day management of the ACLU of Kansas’s programmatic work. The CPO works closely with the Executive Director, other staff, partners, volunteers, and the board to achieve the ambitious goals for civil liberties and civil rights impact that the organization has adopted.
The CPO designs and implements monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes to enhance programmatic results and impact. In addition, the CPO will collaborate with other staff in designing and maintaining an organizational culture that centers people impacted by ACLU work and that fosters equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
The CPO will serve as one of the organization’s external representatives, especially for partner relationships, but the role is primarily an internal facing one. The CPO will directly supervise five senior organizational leaders from the ACLU of Kansas’s programmatic departments: the Communications Director, Field Director, Legal Director, Policy & Research Director, and Political Director. These five programmatic departments have a combined staff of 18 FTEs.
The CPO will provide leadership of the integrated advocacy campaigns that form the basis of the ACLU of Kansas’s programmatic work.
This position may be based out of the organization’s Overland Park or Wichita office and will require…
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