Legal Assistant - San Francisco - Dolores Street Community Services

    Dolores Street Community Services
    Dolores Street Community Services San Francisco

    1 day ago

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    Job Description

    Program: Deportation Defense and Legal Advocacy Program


    Position: Legal Assistant


    Reports to: Legal Program Director or Associate Director


    Compensation: $25-$27 per hour. Full-time. M-F 9:00-5:30PM (flexible), Non-Exempt Position

    Benefits include medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, flexible spending account, commuter benefits, paid holiday, paid sick leave, generous vacation with Summer Recess and Winter Recess, and 401(K) with employer matching.


    Responsibilities:

    • Assist Mission Action immigration attorneys in all aspects of immigration legal representation for qualified individuals.
    • Respond to intake calls, emails, and letters from individuals and community partners who seek immigration legal services.
    • Meet with clients to gather documents, complete immigration forms, interview clients, and draft client statements for attorney review.
    • Translate letters and other documents.
    • Deliver legal documents to various courts and government agencies in San Francisco.
    • Write letters to companies, institutions, and government agencies to assist the client in obtaining police reports, court records, medical records, and school records.
    • Prepare various legal papers, such as pleading caption pages, list of exhibits, etc.
    • Help attorneys conduct community outreach events as well as any other appropriate community education events.
    • Manage and coordinate databases, case files, attorneys' correspondence files, etc.
    • Research and analyze issues where appropriate such as researching social and economic conditions and human rights conditions in the client's home country.

    About the Organization:

    Mission Action nurtures individual wellness and cultivates collective power among low-income and immigrant communities to create a more just society. As a multi-issue, multi-strategy organization, we work to improve lives on an individual level as well as affect broader social change by engaging in advocacy and community organizing. We work together across programs to address homelessness, lack of affordable housing, and to support immigrant rights in order to meet the complex needs of our communities and collectively address the root causes of suffering and injustice. To learn more about our organization's model and impact, we encourage you to visit our website: www.missionaction.org.

    About the Program:

    Since 2008, Mission Action's Deportation Defense & Legal Advocacy Program has been a local leader in providing pro bono legal defense for individuals and families facing deportation. We use creative legal and advocacy strategies to challenge prolonged detention, constitutional violations, and other injustices in the immigration legal system. We represent individuals threatened with deportation through challenges to the charges of removability, as well as through applications for relief, including asylum, withholding of removal, relief under the Convention Against Torture, waivers of inadmissibility and deportability, and applications for U-visa, T-Visa, and VAWA relief.

    Qualifications:

    • Experience working with low-income, immigrant, and monolingual Spanish-speaking communities.
    • Experience working with survivors of trauma.
    • Strong commitment to serving low-income and underserved communities, with an ability to relate to and communicate with a broad range of clients and colleagues.
    • Fluency in Spanish required.
    • Excellent word-processing and computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.
    • Must be well organized, efficient, highly motivated, and able to handle multiple tasks at once, work well under pressure, and take initiative.
    • Must have outstanding written, verbal and interpersonal skills, superb attention to detail, and excellent phone manner.
    • Ability to work independently as well as within a team.
    • Willingness to conduct training and outreach activities in the community.
    • A Bachelor's degree preferred.

    Mission Action is an equal-opportunity employer which values lived experience and seeks applicants of the greatest diversity possible. We encourage people of color, women, older people, members of the LGBTQ community, and individuals with disabilities, including HIV and community members who grew up in the Mission District. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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