What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Program Director position at Dolores Street Community Services?
Site / Program : Deportation Defense and Legal Advocacy Program
Compensation : $120,000-$140,000 annual salary, DOE. Full time, exempt position. $10,000 signing bonus will be provided after 3 months of employment. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, 401(K) with employer match, flexible spending account, and commuter benefits. Generous paid holidays, vacation, sick leave, Summer and Winter Recess, restorative break. Hybrid office schedule.
To apply : Please visit https : / / Mission Action.isolvedhire.com / jobs / and submit cover letter, resume, three references, and a writing sample.
Deadline : Immediately interviewing on a rolling basis until position is filled.
About the Organization :
Mission Action nurtures individual wellness and cultivates collective power among low-income and immigrant communities to create a more just society. As a multi-issue, multi-strategy organization, we work to improve lives on an individual level as well as affect broader social change by engaging in advocacy and community organizing. We work together across programs to address homelessness, lack of affordable housing, and to support immigrant rights in order to meet the complex needs of our communities and collectively address the root causes of suffering and injustice. To learn more about our organization's model and impact, we encourage you to visit our website at : www.missionaction.org .
Since 2008, Dolores Street's Deportation Defense & Legal Advocacy Program has been a local leader in providing pro bono legal defense for individuals and families facing deportation. We use creative legal and advocacy strategies to challenge prolonged detention, constitutional violations, and other injustices in the immigration legal system through direct services, appeals, impact litigation, and public advocacy. We represent individuals threatened with deportation by challenging removability, and through applications for relief, including asylum, withholding of removal, relief under the Convention Against Torture, waivers of inadmissibility and deportability, and applications for U-visa, T-Visa, and VAWA relief. We strive to connect our individual casework to broader movements for immigrants' rights, racial justice, and abolition and to be guided by the communities we work alongside. We are a caring and supportive team that values sustainability and wellness in this challenging work.
Here are just a few examples of our legal team's groundbreaking wins in recent years :
- Through an innovative workshop series, over the past year we have helped 10 unrepresented asylum seekers win their asylum cases before the immigration court;
- In 2022, we launched an in-house post-conviction relief program to provide wrap-around services for clients who have been impacted at the intersection of criminal justice and deportation;
- In 2022, we successfully argued against en banc rehearing in Vasquez Rodriguez v. Garland , 7 F.4th 888 (9th Cir. 2021), opening the door for asylum claims based on imputed gang membership;
As an organizational plaintiff in Pangea et al. V. Dep't of Homeland Security I and II , we successfully challenged the Trump administration's proposed regulations that would have gutted asylum protections and asylee work authorization, preventing those rules from taking effect.
Position Summary :
Mission Action seeks a Legal Program Director to lead and manage our Deportation Defense program. The Director will supervise members of our legal team and oversee the day-to-day operations of our program, including grant management, liaison with external partners and funders, and work with our organization's Senior Leadership Team to carry out our organization's mission.
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Qualifications :
Mission Action is an equal-opportunity employer that values lived experiences and seeks applicants of the greatest diversity possible. We encourage people of color, women, older people, members of the LGBTQ community, immigrants and those impacted by Mission Action's work, individuals with disabilities, including HIV, and community members who grew up in the Mission District, to apply. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.
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Salary : $120,000 - $140,000
