Immigration Program Co-Director

East Bay Community Law Center-posted 12 days ago
$106,000 - $117,000/Yr
Full-time • Director
Hybrid • Berkeley, CA
51-100 employees
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East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) is a non-profit legal services organization, the community-based clinical program for U.C. Berkeley Law School, and one of the Bay Area’s largest and most effective systems disrupters. With a dual service and teaching mission, EBCLC is a racial justice organization committed to building a culturally diverse workplace, centered on equity. With about 50 staff, 100 law students a year, and a $7 million annual budget, EBCLC is the largest provider of free legal services in Alameda County, providing multimodal, collaborative, and holistic legal services to over 4,000 clients annually and engaging in legislative and policy advocacy at the state and local level. The Opportunity EBCLC is excited to recruit a Co-Director to lead the Immigration Program’s direct legal services, social services work, and capacity-building advocacy focused on the most vulnerable populations, including people with disabilities and chronic illness, members of the LGBT community, youth, and existing EBCLC clients with other legal issues. Attorneys and advocates counsel and represent individuals in matters including family-based petitions, adjustment of status, DACA, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, U/T visas, waivers, immigration effects of criminal convictions, naturalization, asylum, and removal defense. The program represents clients before State Courts, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Immigration Courts, and the Board of Immigration Appeals. The Co-Director will support the immigration team in providing holistic legal services to clients referred through several long-standing community partnerships. The team partners with California community colleges, UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Students Program, the City of Berkeley and the Alameda County Collaborative for Removal Defense (ACCORD). The program is also part of the Bay Area DACA Initiative to develop policy, infrastructure and pathways for DACA recipients to transition to permanent legal status. Under the supervision of EBCLC’s Co-Deputy Director, the Program Co-Director supervises half of the immigration team, with approximately 5-6 direct reports. They also help train and supervise law students, in partnership with UC Berkeley Law School, as part of EBCLC’s clinical legal education program and receive a partial appointment as a UC Berkeley Lecturer.

  • Co-manage the Immigration Program providing vision, planning, and implementation of the work within the context of EBCLC’s larger racial justice mission ;
  • Co-supervise the immigration team providing support and direction on substantive work, professional development, performance evaluation, workload management, and wellness;
  • Work with Executive Director, Deputy Directors, and Development team to attract financial support for the Immigration Program, oversee grants management, track deliverables, and provide general administrative oversight;
  • Manage a small caseload of immigration cases;
  • Manage projects with community partners including referral and service coordination, client outreach, and reporting;
  • Engage in community outreach and education;
  • Teach, supervise, and mentor law students enrolled in the Immigration Clinics, including helping to design curriculum, providing highly interactive legal and skills training, and co-facilitating weekly individual and group supervision meetings;
  • Participate in ongoing professional development to improve management skills, client services, and student supervision;
  • Serve on EBCLC’s management team, providing input and support for the broader organization;
  • Serve as the primary contact with the community and media, including responding to press and service provider inquiries, making presentations to the public, community, and other professional groups, and overseeing staff to whom these tasks have been delegated; and
  • Other tasks as assigned by EBCLC’s Co-Deputy Director.
  • JD required;
  • Member of California Bar;
  • Demonstrated commitment to racial justice;
  • 5 years’ experience providing representation in immigration cases, including practicing in immigration court;
  • 3 years’ experience supervising attorneys and/or paralegals;
  • Experience supporting government and/or foundation grant tracking and reporting;
  • Strong interest in law student supervision and clinical teaching;
  • Demonstrated inclusive leadership skills;
  • Excellent time management, priority-setting, and organizational skills;
  • Strong interpersonal skills, flexibility, and demonstrated ability to work well independently and as part of a team;
  • Ability to provide supervision and guidance within a highly collaborative working environment;
  • Excellent oral and written communication and advocacy skills; and
  • Ability to partner and work effectively with a diverse range of people, including but not limited to clients, law students, community partners, judges and other government employees, and law school faculty.
  • Benefits include fully paid health insurance (medical, dental, and vision) for employees and their dependents, life and disability insurance, and generous paid leave (vacation, sick, and holidays); EBCLC also offers flexible spending accounts for qualified health, dependent care, and commute expenditures; and retirement options.
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