Legal Services Director

3 weeks ago

Baltimore, United States International Rescue Committee Full time

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and more than 25 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees delivers lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

**JOB OVERVIEW**:
IRC seeks a Legal Services Director to provide vision, strategy, and leadership to immigration legal services programs across IRC Maryland in Silver Spring and Baltimore. The Legal Services Director will ensure the delivery of high-quality and impactful immigration legal services programs through direct supervision of program managers and leads. The Legal Services Director will bring vision and creativity to ensure legal services programs expand in a sustainable manner. The position will report to the Executive Director and work in close collaboration with leaders and managers of other program areas, as well as with development and finance managers. The Legal Services Director will communicate regularly with a wide range of community partners and stakeholders as well as the Legal Services Technical Unit (TU) at IRC’s headquarters.

This role requires thoughtful management and leadership, legal strategy, resource acquisition and development, advocacy, supervision, and the promotion of an inclusive and equitable professional working environment.

**MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**_ Program/Staff Management_**
- Oversee immigration legal services programs across 2 offices in a manner that supports exchange of ideas, encourages collaboration, and fosters professional development.
- Develop clear roles, expectations, divisions of labor, and measurements of success, and ensure that caseloads and other duties of legal staff are equitable and reasonable.
- Together with managing attorneys and program managers, ensure adherence to program procedures and implement best practices, including those outlined in IRC’s Immigration Legal Services Program Policy Manual, to maintain and improve the quality and efficiency of legal service delivery.
- Provide supervision to managing attorneys, program leads, and program managers.
- Build and disseminate knowledge and analysis to (office) legal services staff, IRC colleagues, and the wider community about local and national immigration issues and trends that impact IRC clients.
- Although the Legal Services Director will not carry an individual client case load, they should be ready and able to enter representation/co-counsel on client cases in the event of staff annual leave, staff transitions, complex cases that could impact the immigrant community, and other unforeseen circumstances.
- Ability to advise on complex client cases involving criminal history, immigration law violations, current or previous removal proceedings, appeals, etc.
- Assume responsibility and risk for outcomes of program’s client cases.
- Work with managers to ensure program data is collected consistently, managed appropriately, and reported timely, using IRC’s legal case management database and other relevant case management systems.
- Coordinate with other IRC teams, including the Safety & Wellness Program, to develop multidisciplinary approaches and strategies to address client needs.
- Work closely with the HQ Legal Services Technical Unit and leadership at other IRC US offices to foster knowledge sharing and ensure a consistent approach and strategy to immigration legal services and asylum programming.

**_ Program Strategy_**
- Develop sustainable program expansion plans with input from a wide range of internal stakeholders; incorporate client and community feedback wherever possible.
- Manage public and private grants, including timely reporting, monitoring outcomes, and evaluation of program effectiveness.
- Work with IRC Maryland leadership and IRC HQ on fundraising efforts.
- Locate new funding sources and maintain relationships with current funders.
- Work closely with IRC Maryland leadership and finance team on continually assessing deliverables and expenditures to make strategic decisions on programming, hiring needs, and staff responsibilities.

**_ Advocacy & Community Partnerships_**
- Represent IRC Maryland with external parties, including partners, public and elected officials, and community leaders.
- Spearhead engagement in community and regional immigrant rights and legal services spaces; ensure IRC Maryland incorporates community feedback in strategic plans.
- Coordinate with IRC’s

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