Tenant Legal Services Senior Attorney & Community Law Supervisor

About the Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) & CED Law

Our mission
We partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity. We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth. We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive.

Our Organization
The Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) is a Colorado-based nonprofit. Launched in 2020 as the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, our organization was formed to keep our neighbors housed during the pandemic. Working with clients, we built a deeply integrative approach to eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness prevention that centers the legal and financial needs of housing-insecure families and uses a variety of tools to keep them housed.

Our team now serves more than 1,000 people per month, bringing together housing lawyers, economists, data analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to serve our clients. We have served more than 50,000 low-income Coloradans across 45 counties, distributing over $200 million in emergency assistance. We have also contributed to the passage of major legislation to prevent eviction, stop economic abuse, and make credit and life-saving medication cheaper. CEDPʼs model has been cited as a best practice by White House, HUD, the Urban Institute, and in the media.

Building on our work to stop evictions, CEDP has further expanded its integrated services model to include disaster response, predatory towing, debt collection, benefit access & navigation, long-term rental assistance, and homelessness response. Similar to CEDPʼs work on rental housing, these efforts offer a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy.

More about the Tenant Legal Services Senior Attorney & Community Law Supervisor Role:

We are seeking an experienced Attorney to oversee CED Lawʼs Community Law program. A successful candidate will have deep experience working in collaboration with CED Lawʼs Community Law program and a desire to hone the program to meet organization and community needs. The best-fit candidate for this role will have three or more years of experience in litigation, social work, and/or related fields, as well as experience in people management, managing and developing projects, and administrative oversight.

To further ensure success, candidates are expected to lead in the advancement of the Community Law programʼs mission to provide advocacy, training, and technical support to community-identified issues with the mission of shifting power back into the hands of the people.

In this role you will:

• Oversee CED Lawʼs Community Law program with the support of CED Lawʼs Director of Tenant Legal Services
• Supervise a Community Law legal assistant and be responsible for guiding their support of the teamʼs efforts and their own professional development.
• Refine and develop Community Law program policies and procedures including by identifying priority partner organizations to work with and issues to assist them with, informed by their community membersʼ needs.
• Supervise and assist with program administrative work, including developing and maintaining policies for community event intake forms and representation agreements, data tracking, and inputting Community Law cases into CED Lawʼs case management system
• Set overall goals, priorities, and identify areas of improvement for CED Lawʼs Community Law program
• Support tenant-led initiatives in partnership with community partners through know your rights trainings and clinic-style legal assistance
• Utilize non-traditional legal strategies and efforts to help communities build power and gain skills such as assisting with policy efforts or other strategic campaigns
• Host and appropriately staff community law events to meet contract numbers and community needs
• Coordinate with CED Lawʼs eviction defense and affirmative litigation teams to support tenants with specific legal needs from community partners
• Maintain a small personal caseload of limited eviction defense cases drawn directly from Community Law program work
• Attend CED Law courthouse legal clinics to provide limited advice and representation
• Provide comprehensive information and updates about Community Law program work across CEDP and collaborate across the organization on shared efforts
  

Position Requirements:

• Colorado Bar admission and JD
• Ability to travel throughout the state of Colorado, primarily in the Denver metro area but also to rural communities in order to provide Community Law services
• Familiarity and expertise with CED Lawʼs current Community Law program and structure
• Minimum three years of experience as a practicing attorney, social worker, or other related professional field with an emphasis on providing direct support to members of vulnerable populations, including low-income individuals, migrants/refugees, individuals with disabilities, youth, or seniors
  
• Leadership experience.
• Experience supervising people or the desire to utilize and further build leadership skills
• Demonstrated passion for social and racial justice.
• A supportive, client-focused attitude.
• Strong desire to center client and community needs.

Additional Details:

• Candidates must reside in Colorado, ideally within the greater Denver Metro area. The position includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), and 401k.
• A competitive salary of $92,500 per year plus a $1,000 per year hybrid employee salary adjustment
• Employees who utilize two languages or more at work are eligible for a $2,000 salary differential per year added to the salary grade listed above. Language assessment will be conducted by the organization as a requirement to receive the differential
• All employees receive a technology stipend of $720 per year
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis but must be received by August 29, 2025. A preference will be given to internal candidates.
• The estimated time to complete the recruitment process will be by September 12, 2025.
• As in-person work is sometimes required, all employees at CEDP & CED Law are expected to maintain current vaccination status in keeping with CDC recommendations.
• CEDP is an equal opportunity employer, with a demonstrated commitment to challenging systems of inequity.