What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Advocacy position at HirefinderRPO?
Our company is a Southern Florida area non-profit pro bono law firm. Every day, we work hard to meet the legal needs of a large, diverse, multiethnic community across Broward County. Our mission is to provide high-quality, free civil legal advice, representation, and education to the disadvantaged of Broward County. Our company has more than 125 employees, including more than 50 attorneys, who provide free services and resources across a broad range of civil legal issues that impact health, safety, and self-sufficiency. Every year, we help thousands find their voice, regain control of their lives, and build a brighter future.
Through education, effective litigation, and collaboration, we work tirelessly to expand access to justice for all, identify needs in our community, and challenge systems, laws, and policies that adversely affect the underserved and marginalized.
Position Summary
We are seeking to fill a full-time Regional Director of Advocacy position. This is a professional position with significant responsibility for advocate support, training, supervision and facilitating the provision of quality legal services. It is a regional position covering Broward and Collier Counties. The Advocacy Director's primary functions and duties include ensuring a strategic focus for program litigation and advocacy, providing technical assistance, mentoring, co-counseling, training and strategic support to staff on litigation and systemic advocacy as well as emerging legal advocacy approaches.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Have direct supervision of all of our Boward county attorneys, but will be accessible to all supervising attorneys and staff attorneys for our company
- Identify systemic issues that affect clients and develop strategic litigation and / or advocacy approaches to address them, with a focus on priority substantive legal areas.
- Support, teach, and model effective advocacy and emerging legal advocacy approaches in state and federal courts, administrative proceedings, and other forums.
- Identify advocacy-related training needs and develop and conduct staff training related to changes in procedural and substantive law, litigation, and appellate advocacy.
- Mentor, co-counsel, assist in strategy, drafting, research in all manner of cases, including impact / class action litigation.
- Oversee Broward Lawyers Care / Pro Bono.
- Oversee legal work in all substantive units.
- Assist with nationwide annual summer law internship search and placement program.
- Oversee the recruitment and placement of volunteers throughout the year.
- Attend national, state-wide, and local trainings.
- Review and approve litigation expenses.
- Identify and facilitate connections across teams and create substantive law groups.
- Evaluate all Supervising attorneys.
- Supervise
- Input payroll information for LAClient supervising attorneys;
- Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
ion & Experi enceMinimu
m ten years legal experience as a practicing attorney in a wide variety of civil law areas, with five years of management supervisory experience, ideally in a legal services program.Member of the Florida Bar in good standing.Experience as lead counsel in complex federal litigation highly preferred.Significant experience leading advocacy efforts other than litigation.
