Legal Project Specialist

Do you have experience organizing and managing projects and a desire to help people receive the legal services they need to succeed? Position Overview

The Legal Team is a small, busy collaborative team that serves as Ascendium’s in-house law firm. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, dynamic, and collaborative to join our team. The new team member will play a key project-management role in several Legal team initiatives, including potentially the Law for Learners AmeriCorps justice worker program and other access to justice initiatives, litigation, information governance, and other projects. Duties will include project planning, execution and management, litigation tracking and reporting, drafting letters and reports, along with some key administrative functions.

Essential Functions

• Oversee, administer, and improve litigation-management processes including tracking and
• Assist with organization and implementation of Legal team initiatives, projects, and
• Support other executive officers or departments, as assigned by General
• Contribute to collegial, collaborative team
• Work on special projects or other duties as

Education/License/Certification/Experience Requirements

• Five or more years of relevant experience as a paralegal, legal assistant, project manager, or in a role that involved overseeing a significant initiative.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and excel in project management and oversight of multiple initiatives independently and without significant oversight.

Knowledge and Skills Required for Position

• Strong analytic, oral, and written communication skills including
  • writing experience with a solid foundation of grammar rules and
  • training/speaking experience with a knack for engaging diverse groups (previous supervisory and/or event planning experience is a plus).
• Strong organizational, time-management, project-management, and problem-solving
• Possesses foundational office skills including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database
• Highly adaptable with effective organization methods and consistent attention to
• Ethically and socially responsible; discrete and professional in a variety of settings both within and outside of the
• Confident working with a team as well as in a self-sufficient manner without being given detailed, point-by-point
• Solution-oriented and adaptable to shifting priorities and real-time
• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple concurrent projects and

Other Information 

Ascendium offers an outstanding benefits package designed to provide full-time employees with a high degree of security. These benefits include, but are not limited to: 

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.  
• Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance. 
• Retirement savings plan with employer match. 
• Flexible work schedule. 

Ascendium provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, creed, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. We are strongly committed to this policy and believe in the concept and spirit of the law. 

H-1B sponsorship (initiation or transfer) is not available for this position.  

If you would like assistance with the application process, please email Ascendium Human Resources. We invite all applicants to complete the Voluntary Affirmative Action questions when submitting application materials. The questions are found at the end of the online application process. To learn more about our commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity, please visit the Ascendium Careers webpage.  

Ascendium requires criminal, employment and education background investigations before hiring.