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Make a difference with us! At Alliance Defending Freedom, we believe God has brought you here for His purpose—to stand for truth and defend the God-given right to live and speak it. Together, we protect religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights. Review our Statement of Faith to ensure we’re a fit for you.

Team Overview

As the News & Commentary Editor at Alliance Defending Freedom, you’ll lead the charge in crafting timely, compelling content that communicates ADF’s mission and legal work. You’ll manageThe Docket—our hub for news and commentary—by assigning, editing, and writing articles that simplify complex legal and cultural issues for a wide audience. This role blends strategic thinking with editorial excellence to ensure our content is impactful, aligned with our brand, and drives engagement across digital channels.

This is an opportunity for a passionate communicator and skilled editor who thrives in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment. You’ll bring a strong editorial voice and strategic mindset to the table—balancing creativity with precision, and always with an eye toward advancing ADF’s mission through impactful storytelling. If you’re a seasoned writer and editor who’s energized by current events, grounded in your Christian faith, and ready to use your gifts to defend fundamental freedoms, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

Editorial Direction

• Direct the assignment, writing, editing, and publication of articles on The Docket, ADF’s hub for news and commentary.
• Manage an editorial calendar to ensure consistent coverage of ADF-related issues and timely responses to current events.

Content Development & Writing

• Assign weekly tasks to in-house writers, edit drafts, and provide constructive feedback.
• Write compelling, opinionated articles weekly that inform and inspire users.
• Simplify complex legal and cultural issues into clear, engaging content that helps users understand relevance and impact.

Strategic Alignment

• Maintain deep familiarity with ADF’s cases, messaging, and priorities to identify content opportunities that advance strategic objectives.
• Act as a frontline brand manager, ensuring content aligns with ADF’s legal goals, messaging, and brand, and inspires user action.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure web content is fully leveraged across channels (social media, email, etc.) and aligned with short- and long-term goals.
• Support advocacy campaigns by developing news and commentary content as tools to achieve campaign objectives.

Performance & Maintenance

• Evaluate data and follow SEO best practices to optimize content performance.
• Contribute to website updates, including posting press releases, case documents, and editing existing content as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, marketing, or internet-related field.
• 3-5 years experience as a writer and editing the work of others.
• Experience with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy and website Content Management Systems (CMS).

Preferred Qualifications

• Web writing experience.
• Working knowledge of basic HTML elements.

At Alliance Defending Freedom, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package to support your well-being and growth. While we do not disclose specific salary ranges, our compensation is competitive with top non-profit law firms. Our benefits include 100% covered medical and dental insurance, medical and dependent care reimbursement, paid disability, long-term care, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan with a 4% company match. We prioritize work-life balance with paid time off and 12 paid holidays each year.

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Statement of Faith

Based on our adherence to the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess with the Christian Church throughout time and around the world the faith expressed in the Apostles’ Creed:

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

Doctrinal Distinctives

Also, based on this confession, we are committed to honoring God by obeying the two Greatest Commandments, loving God and loving neighbor, and based on that commitment and derived from the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess the following as necessary for living the gospel:

• We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• We believe that the Lordship of Christ requires us as disciples to seek to conform our actions, thoughts, and desires in obedience to Him.
• We believe God creates each person with an immutable biological sex — male or female — that reflects the image and likeness of God.
• We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life-long union, and God intends sexual intimacy only to occur within that relationship.
• We believe God endows all human life with inherent dignity, and it must be respected and protected from conception to natural death.
• We believe that God has endowed all humans with the natural, and inalienable right of religious freedom to believe, pursue truth, and live within ordered liberty such that no civil government may justly infringe upon it.
• We believe that God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, calls all of us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him, knowing that He promises us abundant and eternal life.

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