Senior Director of Humanitarian Legal Services

4 weeks ago


Arlington, Virginia, United States U.S Comm for Refuge Full time
Job Overview

The Senior Director of Humanitarian Legal Services is responsible for overseeing all legal programming and managing the Humanitarian Legal Services leadership team. This role requires strategic implementation of legal programming, including special projects and high-priority initiatives, and ensuring the highest quality of services. The Senior Director will cultivate and maintain relationships with funders, external stakeholders, and partners, and identify new funding opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage and organize the leadership team of professionals supervising all legal services programming;
  • Provide oversight of legal services program deliverables, including on-going assessment of project implementation, compliance, timely reporting to funders, budgeting and financial oversight;
  • Serve as the primary contact with current and prospective funders, service providers, subcontractors, and the legal community;
  • Identify new program funding opportunities and initiatives, and create, develop, and implement new legal programming;
  • Conduct quality assurance activities, such as visits and supervision observations, and monitor legal sites for compliance and adherence to program requirements and USCRI policies and procedures;
  • Set an example in legally ethical behavior, quality management of staff, and excellence in work product;
  • Communicate regularly, providing timely and relevant updates on important program issues, with the Senior Vice President;
  • Guarantee data collection and analysis for reporting purposes;
  • Remain abreast of best practices in legal services provision and stay up-to-date on refugee and immigrant populations and situations, providing guidance to legal staff on immigration legal matters;
  • Serve as an expert in immigration law and make presentations, conduct trainings, and serve as the representative of USCRI legal services;
  • Maintain bar membership through continuing legal education;
  • Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Requirements:

  • J.D. from accredited law school;
  • 10+ years of program management experience, working with grants and contracts;
  • 10+ years supervising attorneys, paralegals, and other program and legal staff;
  • 7+ years of immigration legal practice experience;
  • Current bar membership in good standing to practice law in any of the United States;
  • Experience working with immigrants, low-income communities, children, survivors of domestic violence, survivors or sexual assault, or other gender-based violence;
  • Excellent organizational, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills;
  • Ability to know when to report sensitive and important matters to leadership; and how to communicate agency policy and procedures to staff;
  • Excellent time-management and organizational skills; ability to work as a team member and independently, with a high-level of self-motivation and ability to meet goals and deadlines in a fast-paced environment;
  • Detail oriented; proven examples of ability to delegate and oversee work product;
  • Strong ethics and sound judgment; ability to set an example of professional, exceptional leadership;
  • Proven ability to develop and maintain a positive team environment;
  • Ability to mentor, train and provide career path guidance to staff.

Training Requirements:

  • Satisfactory completion of USCRI's Orientation and Training;
  • Complete additional training as identified by supervisor(s) or Human Resources.

Physical Demands:

  • Use of manual dexterity, tactile, visual, and audio acuity;
  • Use of repetitive motion, prolonged periods of sitting and standing, and sustained visual and mental applications and demands;
  • Occasional lifting (up to 25 pounds), bending, pulling, and carrying.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants is an equal opportunity employer.



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