Senior Asylum Services Manager

Legal

Overview

Develop and manage immigration legal services, ensuring staff are trained and informed.

You have:

• Law degree and member in good standing of any state bar required.
• Minimum 8-10 years’ work experience in non-profit immigration legal services, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in asylum and removal defense.
• Extensive knowledge of immigration law and procedure, including experience before Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
• Proven leadership and management skills to lead staff and promote productivity, and ability to be flexible and to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical, training, organizational, oral, and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively in various global environments and contexts; excellent interpersonal, diplomatic and networking skills, ability to manage a variety of internal and external relationships, to multi-task and prioritize tasks.
• Fluency in English required.

Major Responsibilities:

• Develop, create, and distribute clear and accurate materials for both IRC clients and staff. These include informational briefs or explainers, practice guides, toolkits, FAQs, and policy updates detailing changes in immigration laws and policies. Collaborate with a range of IRC colleagues to produce user-friendly multi-media content (eg, videos, infographics) by reviewing and ensuring accuracy of legal content.

• Develop and provide virtual (or potentially in person, as feasible) know your rights sessions to clients, leveraging IRC’s digital platforms and partnerships to increase client reach.

• Ensure that legal staff are timely informed of relevant immigration policy changes, helping them to understand how changes impact legal clients and how to incorporate these changes in legal services delivery.

• Organize and provide training sessions for legal staff, including attorneys, DOJ Accredited Representatives, and legal assistants to keep them up-to-date on policy and legal shifts, and how to practically adjust case strategy and management.

• Respond to a request for technical assistance from legal staff on complex cases, including asylum and removal defense.

• Develop guidance notes and practice advisories for Immigration Legal Services teams.

• Ensure that immigration law and policy-related content on IRC platforms is up-to-date, accurate, client friendly, and easily accessible.

• Regularly monitor policy updates from governmental agencies, including USCIS, ICE, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Department of State, and relevant courts, including changes to ICE enforcement, asylum policy and procedure, removal defense, affirmative benefits processing, humanitarian protections, and consular processing.

• May supervise a technical advisor or program officer in the future.

Job Requirements:

• Law degree and member in good standing of any state bar required.

• Minimum 8-10 years’ work experience in non-profit immigration legal services, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in asylum and removal defense.

• Extensive knowledge of immigration law and procedure, including experience before Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

• Proven leadership and management skills to lead staff and promote productivity, and ability to be flexible and to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong analytical, training, organizational, oral, and written communication skills.

• Ability to communicate and work effectively in various global environments and contexts; excellent interpersonal, diplomatic and networking skills, ability to manage a variety of internal and external relationships, to multi-task and prioritize tasks.

• Fluency in English required.

Working Environment:

• This is a fully remote position. All work must be performed in one of the 50 states in the U.S.

• Potential for travel.

Compensation: Posted pay ranges apply to US-based candidates. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience and skills relative to the defined job requirement.

Equal Opportunity Employer: IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

US Benefits: We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. In the US, these include: 10 sick days, 10 US holidays, 20-25 paid time off days depending on role and tenure, medical insurance starting at $143 per month, dental starting at $6.50 per month, and vision starting at $5 per month, FSA for healthcare and commuter costs, a 403b retirement savings plans with immediately vested matching, disability & life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support counseling and care in times of crisis and mental health struggles.

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Added 1 year ago - Updated 10 months ago - Source: rescue.org