Overview
The Managing Attorney will oversee immigration legal services at IRC-NY, providing comprehensive legal consultations, application support, and low-cost immigration legal services to refugees, immigrants, and community members.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee legal strategy through daily direct supervision of legal practitioners.
- Employ adaptive management techniques for supervision and support.
- Mentor staff, set performance expectations, give feedback, and maintain development plans.
- Develop and monitor intake procedures, case acceptance policies, and caseload targets.
- Provide direct legal representation to a limited caseload of clients.
- Co-facilitate grant opening, review, and closing meetings.
- Lead grant cycle aspects, including developing and implementing monitoring & evaluation plans.
- Ensure program data is collected, managed, and reported timely.
- Ensure effective integration of internships and volunteers.
- Collaborate with other IRC program areas for client-centered services.
- Establish, maintain, and refresh legal services program policies and procedures.
- Oversee and/or conduct regular case file reviews.
- Create and maintain a viable outreach strategy to cultivate relationships with community partners.
- Pursue program initiatives with partners.
- Work closely with the HQ Legal Services Technical Unit and field offices.
- Serve as an advocate for humanitarian immigrants.
- Travel frequently in and around the service area.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 to 7 years’ experience providing direct representation to refugees and other humanitarian migrants in affirmative applications.
- Experience representing asylum seekers before the immigration court and the Board of Immigration Appeals.
- At least 2 years of experience providing supervision to attorneys and/or DOJ accredited representatives in a legal services context.
- Program management experience preferred.
- Experience managing and administering private and public grants, including grant proposals, budgeting, and reporting.
- Fundraising experience preferred.
- Experience organizing and facilitating immigration workshops and immigration information sessions.
Qualifications
- Law degree (JD or LLM) from an ABA-accredited U.S. institution.
- Member in good standing of any state bar.
