Government Transparency & Accountability

The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, a project of the Law School, is seeking a 20-hours-per-week, remote within the United States (if desired) full-stack developer to work on a full-site revamp and additional development projects, for a term-limited (though possibly renewable) two-year appointment. The developer will work on both the front- and back-end of the Clearinghouse, a document and data repository with whose front-end application has over 15,000 public users per month and whose back-end coordinates over 50 student and staff contributors per year. The Clearinghouse is currently in the midst of a migration from existing technology to a new Django web application, and to a new host, using AWS RDS and S3.  Responsibilities for the developer will include some system administration, but the majority of the role will be development and refinement of front- and back-end applications, including creating (new) APIs.

http://clearinghouse.net Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse Jobs

GovTrack.us began in 2004 as a project to use technology to make the U.S. Congress more open and accessible. Today we’re the leading non-governmental source of legislative information and statistics.

https://www.govtrack.us/ GovTrack.us Jobs

Protect Democracy’s mission is to prevent our democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government. We defend elections, the rule of law, and fact-based political debate against authoritarian threats and work to shape a better democracy for future generations.

https://protectdemocracy.org/ Protect Democracy Jobs

MapLight’s online tools and research bring transparency to government data and put a spotlight on the outsize influence of money in politics so that journalists and advocacy groups can hold lawmakers accountable.

https://maplight.org/ MapLight Jobs

Open Law Library is a nonprofit tech startup and open access legal publisher dedicated to making the law accessible to all.

http://www.openlawlib.org/ Open Law Library Jobs

RepresentUs is the nation’s leading right-left anti-corruption organization. We bring together conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to secure crucial victories that are defending our Republic and fixing America’s corrupt political system.

https://represent.us/ RepresentUs Jobs

Founded in 1999 as a non-profit technology and advocacy organization, Open Plans used mapping tools and open source data to foster a more transparent, responsive government and opportunities for deep civic engagement. Through its OpenGeo arm, Open Plans supported the development of a number of open-source software packages for the analysis and publication of geospatial information.

https://www.openplans.org/ OpenPlans Jobs

Our work amplifies voices calling for freedom and empowers human rights defenders and civic activists to advance democratic change.

https://freedomhouse.org Freedom House Jobs

Granicus is the leading provider of citizen engagement technologies and services for the public sector, bringing governments closer to the people they serve with the first-and-only Civic Engagement Platform. Granicus works with more than 5,500 government organizations and connects more than 280 million people in the largest Citizen Subscriber Network of its kind.

https://granicus.com/ Granicus Jobs

American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by litigation to fight corruption, drive accountability, and defend democracy.

https://www.americanoversight.org/ American Oversight Jobs

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is open and inclusive, that broadens and elevates public discourse, and that fosters creativity, accountability, and effective self-government.

https://knightcolumbia.org/ Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Jobs

protects, defends, and empowers public-interest journalism in the 21st century.

https://freedom.press/ Freedom of the Press Foundation Jobs

The Opportunity Project is a process for engaging government, communities, and the technology industry to create digital tools that address our greatest challenges as a nation. This process helps to empower people with technology, make government data more accessible and user-friendly, and facilitate cross-sector collaboration to build new digital solutions with open data.

https://opportunity.census.gov/ The Opportunity Project Jobs

Government Accountability Project’s mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists. Founded in 1977, Government Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. Located in Washington, DC, Government Accountability Project is a nonpartisan, public interest group. In addition to focusing on whistleblower support in our stated program areas, we lead campaigns to enact whistleblower protection laws both domestically and internationally.

https://whistleblower.org/ Government Accountability Project Jobs

Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/ National Security Archive Jobs

Effective governments optimize their resources to deliver for their citizens. It is easy to make promises to people, but far harder to turn vision into reality. Delivery Associates build expertise in governments around the world to implement effectively for results that matter.

https://www.deliveryassociates.com/ Delivery Associates Jobs

ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.

https://www.propublica.org/ ProPublica Jobs

Demand Progress and our more than two million members seek to protect the democratic character of the internet — and wield it to make government accountable and contest concentrated corporate power.

https://demandprogress.org/ Demand Progress Jobs

MuckRock is a non-profit, collaborative news site that brings together journalists, researchers, activists, and regular citizens to request, analyze, and share government documents, making politics more transparent and democracies more informed.

https://www.muckrock.com/ MuckRock Jobs

Why does it have to be so hard to understand what our lawmakers are up to? With Countable, it doesn’t. Countable makes it quick and easy to understand the laws Congress is considering. We also streamline the process of contacting your lawmaker, so you can tell them how you want them to vote on bills under consideration.

https://www.countable.us/ Countable Jobs

At Civic Eagle, our team is on a mission to use technology to promote better democratic outcomes for people and their communities.

https://www.civiceagle.com/ Civic Eagle Jobs

United Today, Stronger Tomorrow is a national pilot project that identifies constituencies and institutions impacted by COVID and tests innovative organizing efforts to connect them to both short-term work developing and implementing equitable COVID response policies and longer-term advocacy work that will create a more democratic, equitable, racially just, healthy, and environmentally sustainable post-COVID world. We are currently developing projects in NY, IN, CO, and a regional project in the upper Midwest.

https://unitedtoday.org/ United Today, Stronger Tomorrow - Communities Respond to COVID Jobs

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub takes tech experts, teaches them the policy process through fellowship and executive education programs, and encourages them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. We’re building new ideas for policymaking — every fellow must complete one practical policy output during their time with us — and an alumni base of technologists who understand policy and want to engage with it.

https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/ Aspen Tech Policy Hub Jobs

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing.

https://www.pogo.org/ Project On Government Oversight Jobs

As an investigative reporting platform for a worldwide network of independent media centers and journalists, OCCRP is reinventing investigative journalism as a public good. In the face of rising costs and growing threats to independent media, OCCRP provides media outlets and journalists with a range of critical resources and tools including digital and physical security and allows those covering the most sensitive topics to work in teams with trusted editors.

https://www.occrp.org/en/ Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Jobs

At American Promise, we believe that all people are created equal, that freedom is the unbreakable aspiration of humankind and each of us, and that responsibility for ensuring the conditions for the survival of equality and freedom, and for a healthy society, is ours and every American’s. We work to ensure that our staff, donors, volunteers, and supporters reflect the tremendous diversity of the American people as we strive together on the most American of national projects: amend the US Constitution so that our government reflects our wishes rather than those of the powerful, wealthy elite. We’re ending big money corruption in our politics to win voice and freedom for all Americans.

https://americanpromise.net/ American Promise Jobs

An intergenerational, multi-racial, nationally recognized community organization, UPROSE promotes sustainability and resiliency in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood through community organizing, education, indigenous and youth leadership development, and cultural/artistic expression. Central to our work is advocacy to ensure meaningful community engagement, participatory community planning practices, and sustainable development with justice and governmental accountability. As lead advocates of climate justice, UPROSE views the just urban policy—ranging from transportation to open space—as the heart of climate adaptation and community resilience.

https://www.uprose.org/ UPROSE Jobs

At the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), we believe in putting democracy and individual rights at the center of the digital revolution.

https://cdt.org/ Center for Democracy & Technology Jobs

We make public records requests friendlier for the public and easier for governments. Our team is made up of technologists, researchers, and designers who are passionate about bringing great technology and user centered design to governments. We bring this passion to every client relationship we have.

https://www.nextrequest.com/ NextRequest Co Jobs

Digital online Media company

https://couriernewsroom.com/ Courier Newsroom Jobs

Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, OpenSecrets.org is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center for Responsive Politics launched the website following the 1996 elections. Our mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy. Our vision is for Americans to use this knowledge to create a more vibrant, representative and accountable democracy.

https://www.opensecrets.org/ OpenSecrets Jobs

Democracy Fund invests in organizations working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.

https://www.democracyfund.org/ Democracy Fund Jobs

DataSF's mission is to empower use of data. We seek to transform the way the City works through the use of data. We believe use of data and evidence can improve our operations and the services we provide.

https://datasf.org/ DataSF Jobs

At the Small Planet Institute we spread an empowering understanding of democracy as the wide dispersion of power, transparency in public affairs, and a culture of mutual accountability. We call it Living Democracy, enabling each of us to act effectively on emerging solutions from electoral politics and economic life to the environment, hunger, agriculture, and beyond. Our goal is thus a future where all communities are thriving with dignity as Living Democracies, fulfilling our essential needs for personal power, meaning, and connection.

https://www.smallplanet.org/ Small Planet Institute Jobs

We build tools for transparency that help our users access public information, put it into context, and make use of it. We bat well above our weight - we're a small but rapidly-growing company with customers that include some of the largest financial institutions, media companies, political campaigns, and nonprofit organizations in the world. Our customers use our products to solve a wide range of problems – from avoiding conflicts of interest and ensuring compliance regulatory requirements, to deep-dive investigations into firms, and vetting for potential reputational risks.

https://illumis.com illumis Jobs