Careers

FPF does not have an in-office mandate for any of our roles. However, we aim for a biennial all-staff meeting and occasional department meetups at our Brooklyn, New York, office.

• Health plans: Choose from four Aetna options.
• Vision plans: Aetna or MetLife options.
• Dental plans: Aetna DMO or MetLife PPO options.

FPF will match your contributions dollar-for-dollar up to 4% of your gross salary. Employees are eligible to join after three (3) months of service.

• 13 paid holidays, in addition to the week between Christmas and New Year’s.
• Six summer Fridays per year (full day off).
• 20 days of PTO (vacation or personal use) per year, with increases after your second anniversary.
• Seven days of safe and sick leave per year.
• Five days of bereavement leave per year.
• Parental leave for new children — time for parents to welcome a new child by birth, adoption, or foster care placement.
• Discretionary paid leave — up to six weeks after six years of service to the organization.

• A work-from-home budget to help build and maintain your home office.
• A professional development and learning budget to spend on books, courses, etc., to build your skill set.
• A department-wide fund for employees to attend conferences relevant to their role.

• All health care plans FPF offers are eligible for one of the following:
  • Medical flexible spending account (FSA), or
  • Health savings account (HSA)
• Dependent care flexible spending accounts (DCFSA)
• Commuter benefits

We designate one Monday per month as a no-meeting day, and allow employees the time to focus on skill building.

FPF’s stance on AI is to engage this technological tool based on its current best use cases. Our application process will ask you to disclose if you used an AI tool (i.e., a large language model) to draft or review a resume, CV, statement of intent, proposal, or cover letter, and to indicate where you used it.

No candidate ever meets all of the qualifications, and we encourage you to apply if you’re excited about one of our roles. We warmly welcome members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ folks, and people with disabilities.

All roles require, at minimum, a cover letter and resume. But some roles require supplementary materials, depending on the skill sets necessary for success in the role (specific job postings will provide explicit instructions on any additional application requirements). NOTE: FPF will neither require nor request sensitive information (i.e., your Social Security number or banking details) as part of the application process. FPF collects such information only as part of the onboarding process, and all such requests are handled through third-party systems, not via email.

While our full-time roles do not require U.S. citizenship, a candidate must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. to be considered and must be based in the United States. FPF is unable to sponsor employees for work authorization at this time, and any selected candidate for a full-time role will be required to submit proof of authorization. However, our RFPs for independent contractors are open to all.

As a small organization, we design each of our positions to have unique responsibilities. Operating without redundancies requires FPF to explicitly screen for specific qualifications that indicate a candidate may achieve success in a role. As a workplace that strives to operate as a cohesive unit, we prize the following characteristics in all applicants:

• Commitment to continuous learning — working across technologies and in an ever-changing environment like the fight for press freedom requires that all our employees remain committed to learning new technologies and acquiring new skills to allow us to consistently improve our positioning as individuals and as an organization.
• Collaborative work style — we operate in a distributed, remote environment that often requires coordinating work across different time zones. Flexibility and understanding are key to ensuring we retain a healthy work environment.
• Respectful directness — providing and receiving feedback are integral to continuous improvement. Our staff’s commitment to transparency is both societal (as evidenced by our programmatic initiatives) and interpersonal (we neither shy away from nor blunder through tough conversations), and as a result we strive to be both honest and kind when delivering difficult feedback.

First and foremost, thank you for your interest in FPF and for taking the time to submit an application! Our hiring team will review your application and reach out for an interview request if we want to pursue your candidacy. (Note: Please check your spam folder in case it mistakenly screens our email.)

Truthfully, it varies. FPF is committed to finding individuals who are not only equipped to perform the duties outlined in the job description but are also aligned with our mission and purpose. If you’re invited to an interview, we will keep you updated on the status of your candidacy in as close to real time as possible. We thank you in advance for your patience!

Any role listed on our website is one for which we are still accepting and reviewing applications. We remove all inactive searches as soon as we secure candidates.

FPF does not offer volunteer opportunities at this time. For early career professionals, our internship applications typically open in the spring, so please bookmark this page and check back regularly if that’s an opportunity you’re interested in.