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Supervising Attorney, Community Justice Unit, Red Bank

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Red Bank, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 3/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/14/2025

Status: Full-time

Location:
Red Bank, New Jersey

Application Deadline: May 9, 2025

For consideration, please attach your Cover Letter and Resume to the online application in addition to answering the Application Questions.

Summary of Principal Responsibilities:

The Supervising Attorney is responsible for supervision and support of Legal Services Staff based  out of our Red Bank office; providing direct legal representation; monitoring project goals and objectives and developing reports for funders; and participation in local, state, and national advocacy activities. The Supervising Attorney will also play a key role in developing pro se clinics and community legal orientations, facilitating training sessions for advocates, and organizing legal screenings and workshops for low-income immigrants.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities: The key responsibilities of the Supervising Attorney include the following:

  1. Provide training, support, and supervision to AFSC attorneys, accredited representatives, and legal assistants.
  2. Maintain a moderate client caseload, including representation of clients before the Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, ICE, and USCIS.
  3. Participate in meetings with government, private and non-profit stakeholders on immigration issues.
  4. Assist in recruiting, onboarding, training, and supervision of project staff, interns, and volunteers.
  5. Monitor legal updates from courts and administrative agencies and ensure staff are kept up to date.
  6. Participate in advocacy activities in support of policy changes that positively impact immigrant clients and communities.
  7. Participate in AFSC national migration work meetings.
  8. Compile quarterly narrative and statistical reports regarding case consultation and case Assist in the documentation of the project’s experiences and in the preparation of AFSC proposals, quarterly reports, reports to funding sources, and fundraising materials.
  9. Together with the Legal Services Director, devise innovative strategies to better serve community members who proceed pro se in immigration Develop on-site and virtual pro se clinics and community legal orientations.
  10. Facilitate training sessions for AFSC staff, advocates, and organize legal screenings and workshops for immigrant communities.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Admission to a state bar required.  

 Experience

  1. A minimum of five years’ experience with immigration law and procedures preferred, especially removal defense.
  2. Minimum one-year supervisory experience required.
  3. Excellent legal skills and understanding of movement lawyering.
  4. Fluency in written and oral English and Spanish.
  5. Strong written and oral communication skills including public speaking.
  6. Self-motivated, detail oriented, well organized, able to prioritize assignments and workload.
  7. Ability to communicate effectively and build mutually respectful relationships with co-workers, clients, the public and donors.
  8. Familiarity with software applications, case management systems, and cloud-based programs in a Windows environment, including Microsoft Office and Docketwise.
  9. Ability to work some evenings and weekends.

           Other Required Skills and Abilities:

          1. Commitment to Quaker values and testimonies. Understanding of and compatibility with the principles and philosophy of the American Friends Service Committee including non-violence and the belief in the intrinsic worth of every individual.
          2. Understanding of and commitment to the principles, concerns, and considerations, of AFSC in regard to issues of race, class, nationality, religion, age, gender and sexual orientation, and disabilities. Demonstrated ability to work and communicate with diverse staff.

          Compensation: Salary Range 16 - ($82,000 ), Exempt - Comprehensive medical and hospitalization plan; term life, accident and salary continuation insurances, defined benefit pension plan, plus fringe benefits; participation in unemployment and worker’s compensation and social security.

          The American Friends Service Committee is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified persons are encouraged to apply regardless of their religious affiliation, race, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability.

          “AFSC’s Central Office and some of its offices in the U.S. are unionized workplaces. This position is represented under the Northeast Region’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.”

          The American Friends Service Committee is a smoke-free workplace.

           

          Salary : $82,000

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