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SeniorFull-timeGoAI
Salary Range
$93,188 - $116,485 /year
About the Role
KIND seeks a Senior Attorney to provide senior-level expertise and leadership in legal services for detained unaccompanied children facing removal proceedings. This role serves as a thoughtful leader and expert advisor on complex legal issues for internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- →Oversee a team of attorneys and paralegals to ensure high-quality intakes and legal orientations for unaccompanied children in immigration detention facilities
- →Review intakes by detained team and make determinations regarding eligibility for immigration relief
- →Liaise with shelter staff and other stakeholders to maximize efficient and effective services to detained children
- →Perform hybrid mentoring and direct legal representation functions for children released from detention
- →Represent a smaller docket of children in their applications for relief who must remain longer in detention
- →Conduct legal research, formulate legal strategy, interview clients, appear before immigration and/or state courts, and draft court pleadings and applications
- →Assist the Managing Attorney in monitoring daily arrivals, transfers, and discharges of immigrant children in ORR facilities
- →Oversee or conduct drafting of eligibility letters for children to be transferred for long-term foster care determinations
- →Oversee or conduct assembly of court packages as needed based on local Immigration Court practices
- →Assist in completing program reports for partners and stakeholders
- →Assist in overseeing data management and ensuring data integrity through regular case audits
- →Coordinate in-house and volunteer pro bono case placements
- →Help develop pro bono training resources and local training curriculum, including sample filings and guidance packets
- →Present trainings to pro bono attorneys and community groups
- →Represent KIND at local coalitions, courts, and agencies
- →Supervise attorneys, support staff, law student interns, and volunteers
Requirements
- ✓J.D. and admitted to the local state bar (or ability to be admitted within one year of employment)
- ✓Fully bilingual in both English and Spanish
- ✓Minimum of 4 years of experience practicing immigration law, including representation in humanitarian claims such as asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, U visas, and T visas
- ✓Minimum of 3 years of experience working with children, preferably immigrant and refugee children, and/or working with survivors of abuse, human trafficking, or other trauma
- ✓Experience working with law firm attorneys and/or other legal volunteers
- ✓Minimum of 2 years of experience supervising attorneys and/or legal staff (or 2 years demonstrating proven legal expertise for non-supervisory roles)
- ✓Minimum of 1 year of experience working in a detained setting
- ✓Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (such as Teams, Excel, etc.)
- ✓Ability to work collaboratively and multi-task in a KIND environment, managing numerous priorities and emerging opportunities
- ✓Excellent organizational skills with ability to work on multiple projects in a deadline-oriented environment
- ✓Ability to prioritize tasks and delegate as appropriate
- ✓Ability to multitask and work with a sense of urgency in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- ✓Committed to practicing and supporting wellbeing and work-home life balance
- ✓Experience working and communicating in a remote environment preferred but not required
Benefits
- ★Medical, dental, and vision insurance with KIND paying 100% of the employee-only premium for one medical plan option, dental, and vision
- ★Pre-tax flexible spending account for both medical and dependent care
- ★Pre-tax transit and parking spending account
- ★Employer-paid life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- ★Employer-paid short and long-term disability insurance
- ★Mindfulness and Wellness Trainings
- ★Wellness Platforms
- ★Employee Assistance and Resilience Programs
- ★Time Away and Office Wellness Activities
