Administrative Associate
Who We Are:
The Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is the only non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. area focused exclusively on providing free legal assistance to child and adult immigrants detained by the government in the Capital Region.
What you will Do
You will oversee ensuring smooth logistics and operations of onboarding, offboarding, data entry in accounting, and administration of the Operations team.
General Duties and Responsibilities1:
IT
- In coordination with Tech Impact and the HR Associate, assists with administrative IT onboarding and offboarding of staff and interns.
- Serves as the liaison with IT vendors regarding upkeep and maintenance of the office's phone, copier, fax machine, and other office equipment.
Accounting
- Prepare monthly credit card expense report for the Operations Manager.
- Uploads invoices to CAIR Coalition’s bill payment platform, bill.com.
- Updates and maintains vendors in bill.com
- Assist with the annual audit
Administrative
- Maintains and stocks printer room areas.
- Maintains inventory list of key cards for the Washington D.C. and Baltimore, MD office.
- Assists in preparation of monthly reports for the Detained Adult Program (DAP) and Detained Unaccompanied Program (DUCs)
- Open and distribute mail for the Baltimore and Washington D.C. Office.
- Gather information from staff on visitors expected in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Building each week and provide information to building security.
Other
- Takes on special projects as requested
- Assists with the office move scheduled to end on November 1, 2021.
What Else You Should Know:
Timeline:
Applications are due on August 10, 2021. The hiring manager will schedule initial interviews for the week of August 16. The start date for this position is September 7, 2021.
Salary
This is a full-time non-exempt position. The annual salary for this position is $46,600.
Travel
This position is required to work from the Washington, DC office on Tuesdays and Fridays. Travel to the Baltimore, MD office will be required on the second Tuesday of every month.
Position Location
Washington, DC
Telework
This is a full-time in-person position. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all CAIR Coalition staff are currently working remotely. It is anticipated that staff will work from their respective offices on November 1, 2021. This date is subject to change.
Benefits:
CAIR Coalition’s benefits package includes (a) subsidized health, dental insurance, and vision insurance (CAIR Coalition pays a very high rate of the insurance package, for which we can provide additional information); (b) life insurance valued at $50,000, as well as long and short term disability; (d) the option to set up a Flexible Spending Account (beginning January 1, 2021); and (d) the option to set up a 403(b) account (the equivalent of a 401(k) account for nonprofits) which the organization has the option, for all employees on an annual basis, to match at a certain percentage after one year of continuous employment.
Paid Time-Off:
- 23 personal days per calendar year
- Up to 20 days of sick time per calendar year
- 7 hours of volunteer time
- Federal holidays
- Winter break closure
Requirements
- One to two years of administrative, bookkeeping, and technology managements is preferred.
- Demonstrated database management skills with ability to produce reports.
- Experience working in nonprofits is not required but is ideal
- Drivers license required.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Strong organization and time management skills with the ability to prioritize and maintain deadlines.
- Strong desire to contribute to a team environment.
- Self Motivated.
- Willingness to take on practical and ad-hoc tasks and effectively face challenges as they arise.
How to Apply:
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. CAIR Coalition prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. CAIR Coalition conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.
Legal Assistant, Detained Unaccompanied Children's Program
Who We Are:
The Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is the only non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. area focused on providing free legal assistance to child and adult immigrants detained by the government in the Capital Region.
Position Summary:
A Legal Assistant in the Detained Children’s Program focuses on (i) the coordination and execution of visits to detention centers for the purpose of conducting Know Your Rights presentations and intakes with detained children, (ii) working with detained and released clients throughout the course of removal proceedings, including assisting with paperwork and case preparation, and (iii) supporting the program’s provision of services as a whole.
General Duties and Responsibilities(1):
Client Services:
- Participates in preparation and breakdown of detention facility visits.
- Conducts detention facility visits in Virginia and Maryland (at least one per week), for the provision of Know Your Rights presentations and intake/follow-up.
- Participates in intake review, additional case research, and preparing cases for pro bono placement.
- Follows up after intakes to evaluate eligibility for relief from removal, including legal research, securing criminal records, and obtaining additional information from family members.
- Conducts administrative tasks, including database maintenance and reporting to funders.
- Supports attorneys representing detained and released clients before USCIS, Baltimore and Arlington Immigration Court and local state courts in Maryland, DC and Virginia. This includes representation in the following types of cases: Asylum, Withholding of Removal, Protection under the Convention against Torture, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, U-Visas, T-Visas, and Cancellation of Removal.
- Actively engages in CAIR Coalition’s training and advocacy efforts, as needed.
- Collaborates with social services staff to prepare social services and post-release plans.
Organizational Services:
- Ensure the inputting and accuracy of data and case information into shared databases in a timely fashion.
- Assist program staff in completion of their workload during high-work/low-bandwidth periods.
- Take part in stakeholder relationship activities, including meetings with community groups, governmental bodies and representatives, and other legal service providers.
- Engages with internal CAIR Coalition committees and working groups to participate in the growth and vision of the organization.
What Else You Should Know:
Salary
Commensurate with experience working in legal services. The starting salary with one year of experience in legal services is $43,600.
Travel
This position may require travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with all CAIR Coalition safety protocols.
Position Location
Washington, DC
Telework
This is a full-time in-person position. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all CAIR Coalition staff are currently working remotely. It is anticipated that staff will work from their respective offices on November 1, 2021. This date is subject to change.
Benefits:
CAIR Coalition’s benefits package includes (a) subsidized health, dental insurance, and vision insurance (CAIR Coalition pays a very high rate of the insurance package, for which we can provide additional information); (b) life insurance valued at $50,000, as well as long and short term disability; (d) the option to set up a Flexible Spending Account (beginning January 1, 2021); and (d) the option to set up a 403(b) account (the equivalent of a 401(k) account for nonprofits) which the organization has the option, for all employees on an annual basis, to match at a certain percentage after one year of continuous employment.
Paid Time-Off:
- 23 personal days per calendar year
- Up to 20 days of sick time per calendar year
- 7 hours of volunteer time
- Federal holidays
- Winter break closure
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1 This list is illustrative and not intended to be a complete classification of all job functions
Requirements
Competencies Required:
Legal Proficiency
The Legal Assistant understands legal concepts at a level to allow for meaningful contribution to client intake, follow-up, and casework with moderate supervision. The Legal Assistant is working towards self-sufficiency in client-facing activities.
Client and Programmatic Proficiency
The Legal Assistant skillfully and articulately presents legal information and concepts to detainees and clients with moderate supervision, including working with clients and their families/support community throughout the course of a case. The Legal Assistant provides educational presentations to clients efficiently and effectively. The Legal Assistant prioritizes time and resources.
Administrative
The Legal Assistant ensures that all administrative aspects of their position are carried out without managerial intervention, including facility visit preparation and breakdown, and file and database upkeep, etc.
Qualifications Required:
- Written and oral Spanish fluency
- Driver’s license
- Favorable results on background check including driving record, Child Protection Registry, and state and federal criminal records
- Ability to work remotely temporarily
- Willingness to enter Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities, state courts and immigration courts to perform job functions when facilities and courts reopen.
- Preference for at least one year experience working with unaccompanied children, refugees or immigrants.
Please submit cover letter, resume, and writing sample of no more than 5 pages. Position open until filled. Position available in Washington, DC office.
To Apply:
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. CAIR Coalition prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. CAIR Coalition conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.
Managing Attorney, Detained Adults Program
Who We Are:
The Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is the only non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. area focused exclusively on providing legal assistance to adult and child immigrants detained by the government in the Capital Region.
Position Summary:
A Managing Attorney in the Detained Adult Program focuses on ensuring that program staff provide excellent and efficient services to clients, implementing long-term plans for the program, providing direct legal services to immigrant adults, and supervising junior staff with a focus on professional development.
Our Work Environment:
CAIR Coalition’s Detained Adult Program (DAP) is a highly collaborative work environment. We work in smaller focused teams around various direct representation and legal orientation projects, but all DAP colleagues are interconnected through, for example, case workshopping, appeals management, advocacy initiatives, and staff-run committees such as our Equity & Inclusion Committee.
DAP staff have been a source of expertise in the highly complex and ever-changing immigration system. We have persisted through administration changes, policy shifts, and attacks on the rights and freedoms of immigrants through collaborations that arise to address challenges or to brainstorm and implement affirmative strategies.
We center impacted people in our advocacy and media. We embrace the movements to bring universal representation, an end to detention, and meaningful due process to the U.S. immigration system in our work, which also staying focused on the practical work we are trained to do and where we are most useful in this space. We grow our reach and skill set when resources permit and there is interest!
General Duties and Responsibilities1:
Representation:
- Provides oversight and management of significant aspects of the program in coordination with the Program Director.
- Take on direct legal representation of detained clients in removal proceedings before the Arlington and/or Baltimore Immigration Courts. This includes representation types such as Asylum, Withholding of Removal, Protection under the Convention against Torture, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Board of Immigration Appeals, U-Visas, T-Visas, and Cancellation of Removal.
- Ensure that the program is kept abreast of new developments in the law and that junior staff are adequality trained on the law.
- Provide oversight and mentoring to staff attorneys on direct representation cases, including supervision and assistance of (i) case strategy, (ii) trial preparation, and (iii) case load management.
- Provide expert mentoring to outside attorneys representing detained immigrants on a pro bono basis.
- Manage a caseload of in-house direct representation case and pro bono mentorship cases to ensure timely completion and submission of all filings, forms, etc.
- Preparation of Post Release Plans and social service plans, in coordination with social services staff.
- Research, engage, and prepare experts on health, behavioral health, and country conditions.
Advocacy:
- Educate lawmakers and funders on program impacts;
- Work with partner organizations to uplift advocacy;
- Center impacted people in discussions with community organizing activities;
- Media engagement on occasion or supporting impacted people in media or community engagement.
Detention Facility Services:
- Conduct oversight of visits to government detention facilities.
- Ensure that staff members in the program perform Know-Your-Rights presentations correctly and efficiently.
- Conduct individual intakes with immigrants at the detention facilities. Provide necessary follow-up after intakes to evaluate eligibility for relief, including performing research, securing criminal/juvenile delinquency records and obtaining additional information from family and community members.
Organizational Services:
- Work with program management to set long-term program plans.
- Interface with leadership with of other CAIR Coalition programs to ensure cross-program information and strategy sharing.
- Ensure the inputting and accuracy of data and case information into shared databases in a timely fashion for program staff.
- Assist other program staff in completion of their workload during high-work/low-bandwidth periods.
- Take part in stakeholder relationship activities, including in-person and telephonic meetings with community groups, governmental bodies and representatives, and other legal service providers.
- Oversee and conduct trainings and stakeholder meetings with detention center staff.
- Lead internal CAIR Coalition committees and working groups to lend a voice to the growth and strategy of the organization.
- Undertake own administrative functions, including for casework (e.g., preparation of all aspects of filings). CAIR Coalition attorneys do not have dedicated paralegals for assistance on cases and non-attorney staff time is dedicated to client-facing tasks (e.g, jail visits, pro se assistance), however each program does have support case managers or legal assistants to support the team, also known as program advocates.
Program-Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Members of the Detained Adult program, in addition to the responsibilities above, also:
- Coordinate with all internal DAP Programs (e.g., LOP, NQRP, Safe Cities) to ensure all programs are kept abreast of developments and clients.
- Oversee pro se assistance by legal assistants.
- Ensure Equity & Inclusion is key component of practice and professional development.
What Else You Should Know:
Timeline:
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Deadline to apply is September 15, 2021. Tentative start date is October 01, 2021.
Salary
This is a full-time exempt position. The salary range is $65,000- $80,000+.
Travel
This position may require travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with all CAIR Coalition safety protocols.
Position Location
Washington, DC or Baltimore, MD
Telework
This is a full-time in-person position. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all CAIR Coalition staff are currently working remotely. It is anticipated that staff will work from their respective offices on November 1, 2021. This date is subject to change.
Benefits:
CAIR Coalition’s benefits package includes (a) subsidized health, dental insurance, and vision insurance (CAIR Coalition pays a very high rate of the insurance package, for which we can provide additional information); (b) life insurance valued at $50,000, as well as long and short term disability; (d) the option to set up a Flexible Spending Account (beginning January 1, 2021); and (d) the option to set up a 403(b) account (the equivalent of a 401(k) account for nonprofits) which the organization has the option, for all employees on an annual basis, to match at a certain percentage after one year of continuous employment.
Paid Time-Off:
- 23 personal days per calendar year
- Up to 20 days of sick time per calendar year
- 7 hours of volunteer time
- Federal holidays
- Winter break closure
Requirements
Competencies Required:
Legal Proficiency
The employee demonstrates a mastery of the law and legal procedure and can deploy innovative and thoughtful approaches to assisting clients. The employee stays abreast of developments in the law and ensures that their supervisees are trained in new developments.
Client and Programmatic Proficiency
The employee proficiently helps to manage all of the program’s in-jail, client, and in-office programmatic obligations. The employee proficiently manages their caseloads and the caseloads of the staff they supervise. The employee skillfully supervises their staff and ensures that staff are in a position to grow professionally.
Administrative
The employee ensures that all administrative aspects of their position (and their staffs’ positions), attendant to the provision of services to clients, are carried out without managerial intervention, including timekeeping, file upkeep, database upkeep, etc.
Qualifications Required:
- JD and relevant experience in immigration law.
- Must be licensed to practice law in or be willing to sit for the next scheduled bar exam.
- Written and oral Spanish fluency strongly preferred.
- Driver’s license required
How to Apply:
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. CAIR Coalition prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. CAIR Coalition conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.
Anti-Racism Statement:
https://www.caircoalition.org/cair-coalitions-statement-becoming-anti-racist-organization
Program Director, Detained Children's Program
Who We Are:
The Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is the only non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. area focused exclusively on providing free legal assistance to child and adult immigrants detained by the government in the Capital Region.
The Detained Children’s Program provides legal orientation and screening to the majority of detained migrant children in Maryland and Virginia region. We also offer free legal services to children released from the Office of Refugee Resettlement custody to this region.
CAIR Coalition is dedicated to equity and inclusion and to constantly working towards anti-racism both internally and externally.
Position Summary:
The Program Director of the Detained Children’s Program manages and leads all aspects of a program of approximately 30 staff, in coordination with the program’s Deputy Director. This includes having oversight for: strategic vision; legal strategies; administration; budget; hiring and staff structure; and personnel development. It is the Director’s responsibility to ensure that the program operates in an efficient, effective and equitable manner so as to (i) provide excellent, culturally competent client services, (ii) meet all contract and grant requirements, (iii) ensure the professional development of all staff, and (iv) cross-work effectively with other programs.
The Director will also serve as a member of the organizational Leadership Team and help set organization-wide policies. The Leadership of CAIR Coalition is undergoing a restructuring that will result in a larger leadership team, centered on collective management and staff-centered communications.
General Duties and Responsibilities :
- Provides oversight and management of all aspects of the program in coordination with the deputy director, team leadership and staff.
- Ensure that the program is kept abreast of new developments in the law and that junior staff are adequately trained on the law and supported in their case work.
- Provide oversight and mentoring to in-house and pro bono attorneys on direct representation cases, including supervision and assistance on (i) case strategy, (ii) trial preparation, and (iii) case load management.
- Work to enhance staff efficiency and effectiveness in all aspects of their work.
- Work with other programs to align legal, litigation, and advocacy efforts and strategies.
- Strategic planning for the organization and implementation at the team level.
Stakeholder Services:
- Oversee relationships with government stakeholders, including detention facility manager (including ensuring proper relationship-handling by staff).
- Work closely with Vera Institute of Justice (“Vera”) to ensure contract compliance and zealous, client-centered representation and services.
- Collaborates with other providers nationally to ensure that CAIR Coalition stays abreast of new developments and stays at center of national discussions on children’s detention and children’s services.
- Take part in management team efforts on communications and development.
- Draft grant applications and develop relationships with funders in coordination with development team.
- Conduct interviews with print and television media.
Program Administration Services:
- Create and implement program management structures and policies for the team.
- Prepare and track program budgets that align with organizational budgets.
- Prepare contract documents, including budgets and program plans, for use with governmental funding streams.
- Oversee the equitable and inclusive hiring, professional development, and performance evaluation of staff.
- Review of time and expense reports.
Organizational Services:
- Work with program staff and management team members to set long-term program plans.
- Interface with leadership with of other programs to ensure cross- program information and strategy sharing.
- Assist staff in completion of their workload during high-work/low- bandwidth periods.
- Take part in stakeholder relationship activities, including in-person and telephonic meetings with community groups, governmental bodies and representatives, and other legal service providers.
- Lead internal CAIR Coalition committees and working groups to lend a voice to the growth and strategy of the organization.
- Undertake own administrative functions, including for casework (e.g., preparation of all aspects of filings).
Competencies Required:
Legal Proficiency
The employee utilizes their expertise in the law to develop creative solutions to novel legal issues and to help lead efforts to develop changes in the law. The employee works to develop new initiatives at the organization to increase efficacy, efficiency, and cultural competency of legal services. The employee is a thought-leader on client services and advocacy.
Client and Programmatic Proficiency
The employee proficiently manages their program’s shelter, client, and in-office programmatic obligations to ensure that the children and clients receive zealous and culturally competent representation, meets its funding obligations, and collaborates effectively within the organization and with peer groups. The employee skillfully supervises their staff and ensures that staff are in a position to grow professionally.
Administrative
The employee ensures that all administrative aspects of their position (and their staffs’ positions), attendant to the provision of services to clients and looks to streamline and improve administrative aspects.
Qualifications Required:
- JD and relevant experience in immigration law. Family law experience a plus.
- Five years of management and supervision experience.
- Demonstrated commitment to principles of equity and inclusion.
- Must be licensed to practice law in Maryland or Virginia or be willing to sit for the next scheduled bar exam.
- Written and oral Spanish fluency strongly preferred.
- Driver’s license required.
- Favorable results on background checks including driving record, Child Protection Registry, and state and federal criminal records.
What Else You Should Know:
Salary
This is a full-time exempt position. Salary is commensurate with experience.
Travel
This position may require some travel to the Washington, DC. and/or Baltimore, MD office, and/or court during the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff will be expected to enter ORR facilities and state, or immigration courts should client-needs demand them before November 1, 2021. CAIR Coalition will provide its employees with personal protective equipment (PPE) per our COVID-19 policies.
Position Location
Washington, DC
Telework
This is a full-time in-person position. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all CAIR Coalition staff are currently working remotely. It is anticipated that staff will work from their respective offices on November 1, 2021. This date is subject to change.
Benefits:
CAIR Coalition’s benefits package includes (a) subsidized health, dental insurance, and vision insurance (CAIR Coalition pays a very high rate of the insurance package, for which we can provide additional information); (b) life insurance valued at $50,000, as well as long and short term disability; (d) the option to set up a Flexible Spending Account (beginning January 1, 2021); and (d) the option to set up a 403(b) account (the equivalent of a 401(k) account for nonprofits) which the organization has the option, for all employees on an annual basis, to match at a certain percentage after one year of continuous employment.
Paid Time-Off:
- 23 personal days per calendar year
- Up to 20 days of sick time per calendar year
- 7 hours of volunteer time
- Federal holidays
- Winter break closure
To Apply:
Complete application in its entirety. Be sure to upload a cover letter, resume, and writing sample of no more than 10 pages. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis; early submissions are encouraged as the position is open immediately. No phone calls please. Deadline to apply is August 31, 2021. Start date is September 30, 2021.
EEOC Statement:
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. CAIR Coalition prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. CAIR Coalition conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.
Anti-Racism Statement:
https://www.caircoalition.org/cair-coalitions-statement-becoming-anti-racist-organization
Senior Attorney, Detained Adult Program
Who We Are:
The Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is the only non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. area focused exclusively on providing free legal assistance to child and adult immigrants detained by the government in the Capital Region.
Position Summary:
A Senior Attorney in the Detained Adult Program focuses on (i) the provision of direct legal services under a universal representation model to immigrant adults held in facilities in Virginia and Maryland, (ii) the supervision of staff attorneys and legal assistants (also including supervision of interns and fellows); and (iii) the mentoring of pro bono attorneys. This position is based in our Baltimore, Maryland office and will work primarily with our Maryland focused universal representation project/public defender model. This project provides legal representation to detained immigrants regardless of their criminal history and immigration procedural postures.
Our Work Environment:
CAIR Coalition’s Detained Adult Program (DAP) is a highly collaborative work environment. We work in smaller focused teams around various direct representation and legal orientation projects, but all DAP colleagues are interconnected through, for example, case workshopping, appeals management, advocacy initiatives, and staff-run committees such as our Equity & Inclusion Committee.
DAP staff have been a source of expertise in the highly complex and ever-changing immigration system. We have persisted through administration changes, policy shifts, and attacks on the rights and freedoms of immigrants through collaborations that arise to address challenges or to brainstorm and implement affirmative strategies.
We center impacted people in our advocacy and media. We embrace the movements to bring universal representation, an end to detention, and meaningful due process to the U.S. immigration system in our work, which also staying focused on the practical work we are trained to do and where we are most useful in this space. We grow our reach and skill set when resources permit and there is interest!
General Duties and Responsibilities:
Representation:
- Manages caseload of direct legal representation of detained clients in removal proceedings primarily before the Arlington and/or Baltimore Immigration Courts. This includes representation types such as Asylum, Withholding of Removal, Protection under the Convention against Torture, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, U-Visas, T-Visas, and Cancellation of Removal.
- Provide direct supervision to staff attorneys on direct representation cases, including supervision and assistance of (i) case strategy, (ii) trial preparation, and (iii) case load management.
- Provide expert mentoring to outside attorneys representing detained immigrants on a pro bono basis.
- Manage a caseload of in-house direct representation case and pro bono mentorship cases to ensure timely completion and submission of all filings, forms, etc.
- Preparation of Post Release Plans and social service plans, in coordination with social services staff.
- Research, engage, and prepare experts on health, behavioral health, and country conditions.
Detention Facility Services:
- Conduct client visits at government detention centers depending on case specific needs. Supervise and oversee staff participation at jail visits.
- Conduct intakes with immigrants at the detention facilities or telephonically as needed. Provide necessary follow-up after intakes to ensure universal representation program eligibility, evaluate eligibility for relief, including performing research, securing criminal/juvenile delinquency records and obtaining additional information from family and community members.
Organizational Services:
- Assists program management on the implementation of long-term program plans and strategy focused on increasing access to counsel under a universal representation model.
- Ensures the inputting and accuracy of data and case information into shared databases in a timely fashion, including for supervised staff.
- Assist other program staff in completion of their workload during high-work/low bandwidth periods.
- Participates in stakeholder relationship activities, including in-person and telephonic meetings with community groups, governmental bodies and representatives, and other legal service providers.
- Conducts trainings and stakeholder meetings with detention center staff.
- Engages with internal CAIR Coalition committees and working groups to lend a voice to the growth and strategy of the organization.
- Undertakes own administrative functions, including for casework (e.g., preparation of all aspects of filings). CAIR Coalition attorneys do not have dedicated paralegals for assistance on cases and non-attorney staff time is dedicated to client-facing tasks.
Program-Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
Members of the Detained Adult program, in addition to the responsibilities above, also:
- Coordinate with all internal DAP Programs (e.g., LOP, NQRP, Uni-Rep) to ensure all programs are kept abreast of developments and clients.
What Else You Should Know:
Salary
Commensurate with experience working in legal services. The starting salary is $65,300.
Min: $65,300
Max: $80,750
Travel
This position may require travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with all CAIR Coalition safety protocols.
Position Location
Baltimore, MD or Washington, DC
While local applicants are preferred, we will also consider qualified non-local applicants to work remotely through September 2022.
Telework
This is a full-time in-person position. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all CAIR Coalition staff are currently working remotely. It is anticipated that staff will work from their respective offices on November 1, 2021. This date is subject to change.
Benefits:
CAIR Coalition’s benefits package includes (a) subsidized health, dental insurance, and vision insurance (CAIR Coalition pays a very high rate of the insurance package, for which we can provide additional information); (b) life insurance valued at $50,000, as well as long and short term disability; (d) the option to set up a Flexible Spending Account (beginning January 1, 2021); and (d) the option to set up a 403(b) account (the equivalent of a 401(k) account for nonprofits) which the organization has the option, for all employees on an annual basis, to match at a certain percentage after one year of continuous employment.
Paid Time-Off:
- 23 personal days per calendar year
- Up to 20 days of sick time per calendar year
- 7 hours of volunteer time
- Federal holidays
- Winter break closure
Requirements
Competencies Required:
Legal Proficiency
The Senior Attorney demonstrates a solid understanding of legal concepts at a level that allows them to provide services to clients with limited supervision. The Senior Attorney clearly and skillfully employs the law in written and oral presentations and assists junior staff in doing the same. The Senior Attorney has taken on multiple hearings or interviews for clients with limited supervision. The Senior Attorney is able to competently supervise Staff Attorneys on client interaction matters and legal strategy, research, and writing. The Senior Attorney demonstrates cultural competency and trauma-informed practices.
Client and Programmatic Proficiency
The Senior Attorney competently handles, and supervises, all required programmatic obligations (staff supervision, program reporting requirements, intake, follow-up, relief eligibility memos for pro bono placement, etc.). The Senior Attorney manages their supervision responsibilities and in-house and pro bono mentoring caseload to allow for proper prioritization and thoughtful use of time and resources. The Senior Attorney supervises junior staff to ensure programmatic efficiency and efficacy. The Senior Attorney exercises sound judgment and decision-making skills and identifies when issues must be elevated to management.
Administrative
The Senior Attorney ensures that all administrative aspects of their position (and of their supervisees’), attendant to the provision of services to clients, are carried out without managerial intervention, including timekeeping, file upkeep, database upkeep, etc.).
Qualifications Required:
- JD and relevant experience in immigration law.
- Must be licensed to practice law and in good standing with a state bar.
- Written and oral Spanish fluency is mandatory.
- Driver’s license required.
To Apply:
Complete the application in its entirety. Be sure to upload a cover letter, resume, and writing sample focused on an immigration related legal issue.
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. CAIR Coalition prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. CAIR Coalition conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.
