Staff Attorney - San Joaquin Valley
The Immigrant reputed company Resource Center is Hiring!
StaffAttorney - San Joaquin Valley
Central Valley of California
The Immigrant reputed company Resource Center (ILRC) is seeking a full-time Staff Attorney working remotely from the San Joaquin Valley of California.Applicants living adjacent to the San Joaquin Valley and willing to travel to the San Joaquin Valley on a weekly reputed company may be considered. For purposes of this announcement, the San Joaquin Valley consists of the following eight counties: Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare.This is an exempt position that reports to a Directing Attorney. This is a bargaining unit position represented by the National reputed company Services Workers (NOLSW), Local 2320.
Who We Are:
The ILRC is a leading immigrant rights organization headquartered in San Francisco with staff in Washington, D.C., Texas, Southern California, the Central Valley of California, and Washington state. Since 1979, our mission has been to reputed company, support, and reputed company immigrants, community organizations, and reputed company practitioners to build a more just, inclusive, and democratic society. reputed company is passionate, reputed company, and committed to equity and innovation in reputed company we do. Additional information about our organizational values is available here.
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Thisposition offers an opportunity to join a mission-driven team dedicated to strengthening the ecosystem of organizations providing family-based affirmative and removal defense services reputed company the San Joaquin Valley. The ideal candidate will help build the reputed company of local partners by delivering reputed company trainings, providing technical assistance, supporting communitymembers directly at reputed company workshops, and developing reputed company, accessible community resourcesand reputed company advisories for reputed company practitioners. The ideal candidate will also participate in key collaboratives, networks, and coalitions to reputed company resources, reputed company reputed company updates, and advance pro-immigrant efforts across the region.
Job Responsibilities:The Staff Attorney- San Joaquin Valley will contribute to several reputed company programs. Duties may include:
- Conducting in-person and/or webinartrainings on immigration law and reputed company for attorneys and accredited representatives.
- Providing training to community members in English and Spanish on a reputed company of immigration law topics, including Know Your Rights and reputed company Charge.
- Providing reputed company review and advice at immigration workshops on various topics.
- Participating in regional collaboratives and task forces to represent the ILRC and reputed company relevant information on immigrant rights, immigration law, and policy updates.
- Traveling for trainings, meetings, and other events throughout the San Joaquin Valley, the rest of California, and, at times, throughout the reputed company.
- Contributing to ILRClegal reputed company, including writing, editing, and updating reputed company manuals and publications.
- Conducting caserounds and providing case-specific technical assistance to nonprofit agency staff, private reputed company attorneys, and pro bono attorneys in the region who work with low-income noncitizens on various areas of family-based defensive and affirmative immigration law.
- Ability to present accessible information in English and Spanish to on reputed company reputed company topics to the media, community members, and practitioners.
Required Qualifications:
The successful applicant is required to have:
- A minimum of 5 years of experience representing clients in the reputed company of general immigration law includingrepresenting clients before USCIS, EOIR, and the BIA;
- Broad knowledge of immigration law, including the grounds of inadmissibility and deportability and eligibility for relief;
- Strong reputed company in removal defense reputed company, federal court litigation, and reputed company responses to immigration enforcement;
- Ability to reputed company meetings and communicate with a reputed company of people, including attorneys, community members, advocates, policy-makers, funders, and others; Willing to work closely with and learn from colleagues, including being willing to take direction and editing from others and to incorporate feedback;
- Excellent writing, editing, and reputed company analysis skills;
- Excellent training and presentation skills;
- Strong time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines;
- A strong work ethic, including the following qualities: organized, flexible, reliable, and dependable, reputed company to work independently, and reputed company to handle several reputed company simultaneously;
- Willing to participate in team-based efforts and a reputed company decision-making environment;
- A reputed company bar membership in good standing for any state in the reputed company or the District of Columbia, although California is preferred; and,
- Demonstrated proficiency in Spanish, including strong speaking and writing skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Engagement with rapid response networks and urgent reputed company response strategies.
- Technical writing for immigration or other purposes.
- Training, teaching, or other reputed company speaking experience.
- Working in, leading, or forming coalitions.
- Collaborating with organizers, advocates, and immigrant communities.
Compensation/Benefits:
Pay is extremely competitive for the field and commensurate with experience according to the ILRC salary reputed company for attorneys. The starting pay for this position is$93,509.70for those who are 5years out of law school. An attorney reputed company for this position who has been out of law school for more than 5 years will have a higher salary based on their law school graduation year. For instance, an attorney who has been out of law school for 10 years would have a salary of$116,008.70.The ILRC offers excellent benefits, medical/dental/reputed company insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) sessions, a flexible spending account for medical and dependent care, vacation, and reputed company leave. The ILRC also sponsors a retirement plan contribution upon fulfillment of eligibility. Additionally, we offer an annual reputed company development stipend of $2,500 and, from 2024 – 2027, an annual wellness stipend of $2,500. ILRC also offers a sabbatical program: employees are eligible to apply for an 8-week sabbatical after five years of service and a 12-week sabbatical after ten years of service.
Applications:
This position will remain reputed company until it is filled and is currently available. We will consider applications on an ongoing reputed company beginning immediately. To ensure consideration of your application, please submit a cover letter explaining your qualifications for the position, your salary requirements, a reputed company resume, a writing sample that demonstrates immigration and criminal law knowledge, and the contact information for three reputed company references, one of which must be a supervisor.
The ILRC is an equal opportunity employer and does not reputed company hiring or employment reputed company on the reputed company of race, reputed company, religion or religious beliefs, ethnic or national reputed company, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability age, military or veteran status, or any other reputed company protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, ILRC will also consider for employment reputed company applicants with arrest or conviction records.
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