Founded in 1974, Bet Tzedek Legal Services is a public interest law firm providing free legal help, legal education and community outreach, policy advocacy, and impact litigation. Its work spans elder law, housing, employment, and guardianships, among other areas, serving people including tenants, workers, older adults, Holocaust survivors, immigrants, LGBTQ+ individuals, unhoused people, families, and small business owners. The organization reports serving up to 100,000 people each year.
Interim Directing Attorney, Housing Justice
Lead Bet Tzedek’s housing justice programs, overseeing legal services, grants, budgets, and teams. Support low-income tenants, homeowners, and unhoused people across Southern California.
Америка Құрама Штаттары
Калифорния126 000 $ – 140 000 $ / жыл
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- Coordinate Bet Tzedek’s three housing teams: the Eviction Defense Project, Preventing and Ending Homeless Project, and Homeowner Protection Team.
- Advise housing law program managers on strategy and coordination.
- Oversee legal services, litigation, grant compliance, staffing, sustainability, growth, and culture across the housing law practice.
- Work with External Affairs and Finance to support fiscal stability, growth, and program compliance.
- Set and oversee direct service advocacy strategies for programs serving tenants, homeowners, and unhoused individuals.
- Promote information sharing, collaboration, and training across programs.
- Develop data collection approaches to assess client and community impact.
- Supervise advocacy program directing attorneys and support their leadership development, feedback, and staff well-being.
- Lead recruitment, hiring, onboarding, mentorship, training, and development opportunities for attorneys and support staff.
- Contribute to organization-wide policies and initiatives, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and trauma-informed practices.
- Sustain existing grant funding and pursue new funding sources.
- Prepare program data and narratives for funding applications.
- Manage grant compliance, from applications and program design through tracking and reporting.
- Develop and oversee program budgets.
- Approve invoices and check requests, review external legal services contracts, and establish internal program controls.
- Partner with community organizations, legal service providers, social service agencies, and government agencies.
- Help recruit pro bono attorneys.
Талаптар
- At least 10 years of legal experience is preferred.
- Active membership in good standing with the State Bar of California is required.
- Substantial experience managing and mentoring large, diverse teams in nonprofit or legal services settings, including budgeting and grant compliance, is strongly preferred.
- Understanding of attorneys’ ethical duties and law office management practices, with experience training lawyers, legal staff, and managers.
- Leadership experience and a vision for advancing justice for low-income communities, along with demonstrated commitment to that work, are preferred.
- Substantial experience working in coalitions with external partners and community stakeholders is preferred.
- Demonstrated commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and in the communities served by Bet Tzedek.
- Experience with and commitment to person-centered, trauma-informed legal advocacy.
- Ability to work across teams, levels, and functions, navigate difficult conversations, and resolve conflict effectively is required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
- Excellent interpersonal, management, and organizational skills are required.
- A collaborative, transparent, flexible, and compassionate management approach is required.
- Strong emotional intelligence and cultural competency, including curiosity, self-awareness, awareness of bias, empathy, patience, willingness to listen, and an open, growth-oriented mindset.
Артықшылықтар
- Hybrid or remote work designation.
- Remote work may be available at the supervisor’s discretion.
- Bet Tzedek welcomes applicants from traditionally underrepresented communities and historically oppressed groups.