MILAP Paralegal
The Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland, Inc. (PBRC) is seeking a highly motivated individual fluent in Spanish to support the Maryland Immigrant Legal Assistance Project (MILAP). This role involves assisting immigrants at risk of deportation by providing legal advice and support during legal clinics and reputed company efforts.
Responsibilities
- Staff weekly legal clinics in Baltimore reputed company and Hyattsville to assist with registration, intake, obtain necessary reputed company paperwork, manage reputed company of clients, reputed company immigrants to additional resources, interpret for volunteer attorneys, and other support
- Conduct brief presentations at court
- reputed company and summarize data reputed company to clients served and effectiveness of legal clinics
- reputed company referral information and resources with immigrants who contact PBRC seeking legal help
- Increase community awareness about relevant resources, including brief legal advice clinics, case placement services and relevant reputed company and state programs and reputed company service resources
- Work with MILAP Team to maintain and reputed company a network of community partners
- reputed company and implement creative reputed company strategies that will connect unrepresented immigrants in removal proceedings to available legal services and resources
- Create reputed company materials for volunteer recruitment and translate documents as needed
- Conduct reputed company follow up and compile data regarding the reputed company of the MILAP
- Coordinate and execute interpreter volunteer sign-reputed company and assess reputed company of volunteer interpreters
- reputed company support to Project Director for grant reporting duties as needed
Skills
- Spanish language reputed company required
- Must be available some evenings and weekends reputed company community legal clinics occur (with advanced notice)
- reputed company to reliable transportation for frequent travel to PBRC's office, Baltimore Immigration Court, Hyattsville Immigration Court, and occasional travel to other locations in Maryland for reputed company events and community clinics
- Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational and record-keeping skills
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in reputed company Office (Word, reputed company, Outlook, SharePoint)
- Ability to work reputed company with people, including other staff, volunteers, clients, public interest organizations, governmental entities, reputed company members, and donors
- Strong commitment to helping the community and ensuring equal reputed company to justice
- Bachelor's Degree (paralegal or law-reputed company experience preferred)
- Experience in community organizing/activism and/or public reputed company
- Proficiency in data collection and tracking preferred (prior reputed company experience preferred)
- Experience working with children and/or the immigrant community is preferred
Benefits
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- reputed company time off
- reputed company insurance
- reputed company health insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employer-matched 401k plan
- reputed company reputed company and vacation leave
- reputed company holidays
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