Government Transparency & Accountability 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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Public Infrastructure

Partners & Advocates

Washington, DC, USA

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

Americans deserve a government that is ethical, accountable, and open. At CREW, we use aggressive legal actions, in-depth investigations, and innovative policy and reform work to achieve that vision. We take on big fights against powerful opponents, from the President of the United States to wealthy dark money donors.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Public Infrastructure

Partners & Advocates

Washington, DC

https://www.citizensforethics.org/ Citizen for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) 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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Public Infrastructure

Partners & Advocates

New York, NY

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

1 open tech role

The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications.

Human Rights & Equality

Partners & Advocates

Global Peace & Safety

Public Service & Civic Engagement

New York, NY, USA

https://ccrjustice.org/ Center for Constitutional Rights Jobs

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Human Rights & Equality

Partners & Advocates

Public Infrastructure

Washington, DC

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Human Rights & Equality

Pittsburgh, PA

Milwaukee, WI

Miami, FL

Grand Rapids, MI

Colorado Springs, CO

Cincinnati, OH

Charlotte, NC

Burlington, VT

Bethesda, MD

San Francisco, CA

Chicago, IL

Philadelphia, PA

New York, NY

Los Angeles, CA

Boston, MA

Atlanta, GA

Washington, DC

https://protectdemocracy.org/ Protect Democracy Jobs

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.

Human Rights & Equality

Partners & Advocates

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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

Public Infrastructure

Partners & Advocates

Public Service & Civic Engagement

New York City, NY, USA

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

The Sunlight Foundation is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses civic technologies, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Public Infrastructure

Washington, DC, USA

https://sunlightfoundation.com/ Sunlight Foundation 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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

San Francisco, CA, USA

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Washington, DC, USA

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Washington, DC, USA

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

Results for America is helping decision-makers at all levels of government harness the power of evidence and data to solve our world's greatest challenges.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Washington, DC

https://results4america.org Results for America 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.

Public Infrastructure

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Washington, DC, USA

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

San Francisco, CA, USA

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

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

Public Infrastructure

Partners & Advocates

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Education

New York, NY

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

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Washington, DC, USA

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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Northampton, MA, USA

San Francisco, CA, USA

Washington D.C., DC, USA

New York, NY, USA

https://represent.us/ RepresentUs Jobs

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

Human Rights & Equality

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Washington D.C., DC, USA

https://freedomhouse.org Freedom House 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.

Partners & Advocates

Health & Well-Being

Human Rights & Equality

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Denver, CO, USA

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

Corporate Accountability stops transnational corporations from devastating democracy, trampling human rights, and destroying our planet.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Human Rights & Equality

Environment

Food & Agriculture

Health & Well-Being

Public Infrastructure

Boston, MA, USA

https://www.corporateaccountability.org/ Corporate Accountability 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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Berkeley, CA

https://maplight.org/ MapLight 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.

Partners & Advocates

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Millburn, NJ, USA

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

7 open tech roles

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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Washington, DC, USA

St. Paul, MN, USA

Denver, CO, USA

https://granicus.com/ Granicus 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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Silver Spring, MD, USA

https://demandprogress.org/ Demand Progress Jobs

The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research. Together with public servants and government innovators around the world, we are transforming the culture in municipal management, delivering exceptional results for residents, and deepening trust in public service worldwide.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Baltimore, MD, USA

https://publicinnovation.jhu.edu/ Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation 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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

New York, NY, USA

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

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Public Infrastructure

Partners & Advocates

Washington, DC, USA

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Washington, DC , USA

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

COURIER is an independent advocacy news/media network that builds a more informed, engaged, and representative America by reaching audiences where they are online with factual, values-driven news and analysis.

Public Infrastructure

Public Service & Civic Engagement

New York, NY

https://couriernewsroom.com/ Courier Newsroom Jobs

VotingWorks is a non-partisan non-profit building a voting system everyone can trust

Public Service & Civic Engagement

San Francisco, CA, USA

https://voting.works/ VotingWorks 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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

London, England

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Washington D.C., DC, USA

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

San Francisco, CA, USA

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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Cambridge, MA, USA

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Climate Change

New York, NY

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

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Washington, DC. USA

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

Public Infrastructure

Global Peace & Safety

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

The Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission is charged with creating a mandatory certification process for police officers, as well as processes for decertification, suspension of certification, or reprimand in the event of certain misconduct.

Human Rights & Equality

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Boston, MA, USA

https://www.mass.gov/orgs/post-commission Massachusetts Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission 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.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Partners & Advocates

Remote

https://americanpromise.net/ American Promise Jobs

State judges wield enormous power with little oversight. We make their decisions transparent and impact known.

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Human Rights & Equality

New York, NY

https://www.scrutinize.org/ Scrutinize 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.

Public Infrastructure

Public Service & Civic Engagement

Remote

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

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