The Transgender Law Center (www.transgenderlawcenter.org), founded in 2002, is a multi-disciplinary social justice organization working throughout California to ensure that all of us are able to fully and freely express our gender identities. Our Transforming Institutions Project is one of TLC 's core means of achieving this goal. Through community organizing, public policy and media advocacy, and public education, TLC engages with institutions in order to make them more transgender friendly. Currently, our work is divided up into programs related to: economic empowerment, health care access, leadership development, safe bathrooms, student safety, and transitioning the bar. TLC also works on other important policy issues on an ad-hoc basis.

The Policy Advocate will work primarily on expanding our health care access work into different counties around California, but also on our projects related to leadership development, safe bathrooms, and student safety. The Policy Advocate will work in San Francisco with TLC staff, consultants, partners, and volunteers to carry out these transformative social change initiatives. Because TLC is a statewide organization, this position will include some amount of travel throughout California (including availability to travel on weekends).

Responsibilities:

· Coordinate TLC's statewide organizing and advocacy campaign to increase access to transgender specific health care in county and community clinics. In addition to assisting with existing efforts, the Advocate will help expand TLC's existing county specific organizing and advocacy efforts into several additional counties.

· Work with students, parents, student safety advocates, and school personnel to advance adoption and implementation of California's Student Safety law on local and statewide level.

· Continue TLC's ground-breaking work on bathroom safety through educating business owners, public officials, employers and educators about need for supportive policies related to bathroom use and gender-neutral bathrooms.

· Participate in expanding TLC's leadership development program beyond our annual work on the California Transgender Leadership Summit, including possibly initiating a year-long leadership fellows program.

· Translate our policy and advocacy work into written publications similar to Beyond the Binary and Peeing in Peace (both are available on our website).

Required Qualifications:

· Demonstrable cultural competency in working with transgender communities.

· Minimum of two years of experience in a paid or volunteer position advocating for the rights of transgender people or other underserved communities.

· Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write clearly, speak in public, and facilitate large and small meetings. Demonstrated experience tailoring messages to different types of audiences is also necessary.

· A degree in law, public policy, public health, social change OR substantial and related real world experience.

· Proven ability to work with a group to plan and implement social change strategies to address a pressing problem of systemic discrimination, isolation, and/or oppression.

· Ability to work without close supervision on both assigned and self-initiated tasks.

· Commitment to a multi-disciplinary approach to social change.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Spanish proficiency and experience working with native Spanish speaking activists and community members.

· Experience creating publications that explain policy proposals in easily understood language.

· Experience creating and implementing media campaigns to support public policy efforts.

Annual salary range: $37,000 - $42,000 DOE

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume as Word attachments to Kristina Wertz at info@transgenderlawcenter.org . Competitive candidates will be invited for first-round, telephone interviews beginning sometime after December 15 th . Feel free to email questions not answered by this posting to the same address. No phone calls, please.

Anticipated start date: February 1, 2008 (earlier and later start dates will be considered)

Transgender women and people of color are encouraged to apply. The Transgender Law C enter is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.