Workers' Rights Managing Attorney

DESCRIPTION

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Position: Workers Rights Managing Attorney

Salary: $60,000/year; benefits include health, dental and life insurance.

Deadline: Until Filled

La Raza Centro Legal is currently accepting applications for a managing attorney position.The Managing Attorney is not and may not become a union employee covered by any collective bargaining agreement of which LRCL is a party.

Organizational Mission & Background: Founded in 1973, La Raza Centro Legal is a multicultural public interest law and social justice center based in the Mission District of San Francisco. Our mission is to create a more just and inclusive society in the interests of the Latino, indigenous, immigrant and low-income people of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. Through our programs in legal services and community empowerment, we seek to enable people to know and exercise their own legal rights, confront injustice, increase self-sufficiency, and advocate for themselves.

Qualifications: Strong commitment to social justice; strong verbal and written communication skills in both English and Spanish; supervisory experience; program development experience; ability to advocate on behalf of immigrants in the media, community forums, and other venues; good public speaking skills; ability to engage in strategic planning regarding the direction of legal services work; admission to the California Bar.

Responsibilities: The primary objective of the staff attorney is to provide legal services to low income employees. The attorney will manage the Workers’ Rights Program and its staff at LRCL, and provide legal advice, attend mandatory grant administrator meetings, and collaborate with stakeholders in community events.

The attorney will have discretion to adjust employee grievances within the WRP program.The attorney will also have authority on behalf of the employer, to hire, transfer, layoff, recall, promote, discharge, reward (includes evaluations, overtime assignments, time off), assign, or discipline employees within the Workers’ Rights program, or to recommend such actions to the Executive Director.

The position will require the attorney to manage an individual caseload, maintain regular clinic hours (1x/month), recruitment and supervision of a legal assistant, interns and pro bono attorneys(as needed), to assist in meeting goals of the position as well as enhance the resources available to the community. The staff attorney will assist with fund development and grant renewals and ensure funding obligations including obligations under the contract, and reporting requirements.

People of color, women, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender, low income candidates strongly encouraged to apply.

BENEFITS

Group health and medical insurance coverage for employee and eligible dependents

Dental insurance coverage

Term Life insurance coverage

2% 401K Retirement Plan Matching

LEVEL OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Preferably fluent in English and Spanish.

MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED

J.D. and California bar license

HOW TO APPLY

Send resume, cover letter, and two references by email to Lydia Lopez, Executive Director, La Raza Centro Legal, 474 Valencia Street, Suite 295, San Francisco, CA 94103; email: lydia@lrcl.org (415.553.3410)

http://www.lrcl.org