Managing Attorney

Position Description

The Tahirih Justice Center is a national, nonprofit organization that serves women, girls, and other immigrant survivors fleeing gender-based violence. Our interdisciplinary, trauma-informed model of service combines free legal and social services with bridge-building policy advocacy and research-based training and education. Our programs efficiently and effectively leverage donated professional services from a vast network of attorneys, medical professionals, and other experts to serve as many immigrant survivors as possible. By amplifying the experiences of survivors in communities, courts, and Congress, Tahirih’s mission is to create a world in which all people share equal rights and live-in safety and with dignity.

Assistance with relocation will be provided for a successful candidates willing to relocate to the DC area.

Job Summary

At Tahirih the Managing Attorney ensures the overall quality of the legal representation by both in-house and pro bono attorneys of immigrant survivors for one of Tahirih’s interdisciplinary client services teams. The Managing Attorney co-leads an interdisciplinary client services team with the Social Services Program Manager. Together, the Managing Attorney and Social Service Program Manager are responsible for monitoring grant metrics and appropriately addressing successful compliance with grant metrics within the team. As a key leader for ensuring a well-functioning interdisciplinary client services team, the Managing Attorney is responsible for ensuring that all members of the legal team are equitably treated and center the immigrant survivor client in service provision. This position works closely with the Social Services Program Manager, as well as the Co-Director of Client Advocacy to provide holistic trauma-informed support to our clients receiving interdisciplinary representation. The Managing Attorney will supervise a team of immigration attorneys, DOJ accredited representatives, and paralegals; retain a caseload in compliance with grant metrics; ensure grant metrics compliance of the team; manage, oversee, and coordinate the pro bono attorney program for the geographic location; oversee the intake and case acceptance processes; and oversee the team’s legal training, outreach, and education initiatives.

Essential Functions

• Ensure high quality, client-centered (trauma-informed and culturally humble) legal representation of clients through direct supervision and management of legal representatives on Tahirih’s interdisciplinary client services team.
• Oversee the management, and execution of processes and systems within the local office to enable the interdisciplinary client services team to represent clients effectively and efficiently, maximizing internal resources to serve the greatest number of survivors.
• Manage, oversee, and coordinate the local pro bono program, and maintain at least 75% of cases with co-counsel who are trained and mentored by the interdisciplinary client services team.
• Contribute to organization-wide meetings, resources and materials.
• Ensure quality control of the client database and files; maintain accurate data entry; ensure appropriate metrics tracking systems; and follow risk management procedures.
• Responsible for staff members’ professional development and mentorship; identify and coordinate supplemental trainings to support the team’s professional development, as needed.
• As a co-manager and in collaboration with the Social Services Program Manager, develop systems and approaches to engage in regular, mutually respectful interdisciplinary client services team communication and work to ensure delivery of high-quality, holistic, client-centered, trauma-informed interdisciplinary services.
• Oversee, and execute effective and efficient intake, case acceptance, and legal representation processes and systems within the interdisciplinary client services team.
• Work collaboratively with the Directors of Client Advocacy, and other interdisciplinary managers to ensure organizational alignment and ensure local office compliance with organizational policies.
• Support government grants management through effective management of the delivery of grant metrics and reports.
• Represent Tahirih in community and collaborative meetings, and build and maintain relationships with local nonprofits, funders, and government agencies; to work collaboratively to innovatively meet gender-based survivor needs.
• Maintain small caseload of 5 – 15 cases with at least 75% of those cases placed pro bono.
• Effectively delegate projects and clearly articulate the purpose and objectives of projects.
• Regularly engage in professional development to hone supervisory skillset and immigration law substantive knowledge.
  
  

This Job Description is not designed to cover a comprehensive listing of activities that are required of the employee. The precise duties and responsibilities of the job may change over time.