Senior Technical Advisor, Children's Legal Services

Responsibilities:

- Oversee provision of legal guidance, training and technical assistance to children’s legal services (CLS) staff throughout the RAI US network, to drive quality, capacity, and impact of IRC’s services. - Monitor changes in U.S. immigration law, policy and procedures and provide regular, timely updates, analysis, and practice advisories to CLS staff. - Conduct legal training for IRC staff on existing procedures and new policies. - Conduct office hours as requested by offices to address staff requests for technical support. - Develop and deliver engaging content to enhance legal knowledge and skills. - Assist in creating legal manuals and other guidance materials, such as model filings, checklists to ensure these resources are practical, user-friendly, and aligned with legal best practices. - Provide technical support and assistance to RAI colleagues in drafting and preparing immigration KYR and other client-facing informational material and videos and responding to legal questions. - Represent the IRC and its constituents in engagements with partners, federal agencies, and other external stakeholders. - Support efforts to foster cooperation and coordination between CLS and other programmatic components within the RAI U.S. network, including HSPRS, through training and information sharing on topics such as unauthorized practice of law, and confidentiality, among others, to increase program integrity and effectiveness. - Represent the IRC as a thought leader by contributing to national coalitions, working groups, immigration conferences and serving on steering and planning committees. - Identify best practices; contribute new evidence, ideas, and analysis to promote program impact, quality, and scale. - Engage with IRC’s policy and advocacy teams and IRC Legal Services’ staff to cultivate immigration advocacy efforts at all levels with the goal to increase the visibility and impact of IRC’s immigration legal programs. - Recruit, train and supervise volunteers and interns as needed. - Special projects and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

- Law degree and member in good standing of any state bar required. - Minimum 8-10 years’ work experience in immigration legal services, with a minimum of 5 years working with children’s immigration issues. - Extensive knowledge of immigration law and procedure, including experience representing unaccompanied minor before Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). - Experience in obtaining predicate orders for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status in State court. - 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. - Prior experience and/or collaboration with DHS and ORR preferred. - Prior experience managing children’s legal services as a Vera/Acacia subcontractor, preferred. - Strong analytical, training, organizational, oral, and written communication skills. - Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and partners in a cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary environment; 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:

- Fully remote. - Occasional domestic (non-local) travel required; up to 20%. - May require occasional weekend and/or evening work.

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 requirements.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

US Benefits: The IRC offers a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. All US employees are eligible for sick time, a 403b retirement savings plans: up to 4.5% immediately vested matching contribution, plus an 3-7% additional IRC contribution, and an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support in times of crisis and mental health struggles.

In addition, full-time employees are eligible for 10 US paid holidays, 20-25 paid time off days, disability & life insurance, medical, dental, and vision insurance (employee contribution starting at $135, $7, and $5 per month respectively) and FSA for healthcare, childcare, and commuter costs. Part-time employees are eligible for a proportionate amount of paid time off. These additional benefits apply to employees who work at least 6 months within a 12 month time period.

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