The Initiative on Land, Housing & Property Rights at Boston College Law School seeks an ambitious, entrepreneurial, and thoughtful Policy Director to help build up the Initiative's Legal Reform and Policy Laboratory. This role aims to substantially increase the Initiative's ability to develop legal reform and policy proposals addressing critical land and housing issues at local, state, and federal levels, and to assist other stakeholders engaged in similar work.
A model of the type of legal reform and policy proposals the Initiative would like to help develop is the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (UPHPA), a groundbreaking model state property statute. Thus far, the UPHPA has been enacted into law in 24 states/jurisdictions across the country, helping thousands of disadvantaged families maintain ownership of their family-owned properties and their generational wealth.
The Policy Director will manage and support members of the policy team, including the Post-Graduate Policy Fellow and the Ph.D. Fellow for Policy, ensuring the quality of policy projects at each stage. The Policy Director will serve as a member of the ILHPR's leadership team, consulting with other members to develop the Initiative's policy agenda.
To make the policy work sustainable, the Policy Director will help identify funding opportunities for policy projects, assist in developing funding proposals, and engage in other development efforts with Initiative staff and external stakeholders. Additionally, the Policy Director will represent the Initiative for policy-related media relations and engage with stakeholders interested in the Initiative's policy program.
The Initiative seeks candidates whose experience has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and inclusion in our internal management practices and in shaping our policy agenda.
This is a hybrid position with one day a week of remote work possible. There will be some travel, primarily in New England and the Mid-Atlantic region, as well as travel required to other parts of the United States.