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Legal Advocate & Data Management Coordinator
Descripción
Descripción
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), a community-driven civil rights organization, seeks a full-time Legal Advocate and Data Management Coordinator.
About the Role
The Legal Advocate and Data Management Coordinator will provide support to NYLPI’s legal work and coordinate the organization’s data management. Approximately 70% of their time will be spent performing paralegal and other advocacy work and assisting with coordination of NYLPI’s program work. The remainder of their time will be spent on data management, including NYLPI’s case management and data collection systems, and providing support as needed to NYLPI’s administration team.
Legal Advocate core duties include:
- Help with the preparation of legal documents.
- Assist with research, testimonies, and memos in support of NYLPI’s program work.
- Participate in preparations for court appearances, depositions, and mediations.
- Support client work by joining meetings, gathering information, and handling logistics.
- Support the coordination of NYLPI’s work across program areas.
- Help maintain SharePoint files, including dockets.
- Provide technical assistance, including proofreading, formatting, and creation of spreadsheets, tables, and graphics.
- Assist with the preparation and tracking of record requests.
- Lead implementation of NYLPI’s Language Access Policy, including onboarding and training staff and interns.
- Attend and support in-person events.
Data Management Coordinator core duties include:
- Train staff on case management and data collection systems and provide ongoing support and consultation.
- Compile data reports for internal tracking, external reporting, and fundraising.
- Manage NYLPI’s timekeeping systems for billable litigation matters and lobbying.
- Partner with key staff to implement improvements in our programmatic workflow, data collection practices, and compliance systems.
- Partner with other staff members and supervisors to ensure that NYLPI’s systems collect robust information on NYLPI activities and outcomes.
Administrative Team Support includes:
- Coverage, as needed, of phones, intake, mail, data entry, and in-office support.
About NYLPI
For 50 years, NYLPI has been a leading civil rights advocate for New Yorkers
marginalized by race, immigration status, poverty, neighborhood pollution, and disabilities.
NYLPI pioneered the practice of community lawyering in the five boroughs of New York City.
These communities shape our priorities, and their struggles for justice demand innovative
solutions. Our interdisciplinary teams of advocates use every tool available – community
organizing, impact litigation and individual representation, policy advocacy, media, pro bono
partnerships, and public education – to solve seemingly intractable problems, develop leaders,
and build collective power to achieve justice. We strive to create equal access to health care,
achieve equality of opportunity and self-determination for people with disabilities, ensure
immigrant opportunity, strengthen local nonprofits, and secure environmental justice for low-income communities of color. Our unique model of partnership with and support from the
private bar provides opportunities across all of our program areas to maximize impact. To learn
more about NYLPI, visit www.nylpi.org.
Compensación
NYLPI offers comprehensive employer-paid benefits, including health insurance, short- and long-term disability and life insurance, an outstanding retirement savings plan, fifteen (15) days of vacation during the first year of employment, retirement fund matching after one year of employment, and a holiday swapping policy. NYLPI also offers funds for professional development.
NYLPI is a hybrid workplace. This position requires full in-office days Monday through Thursday. Fridays may generally be worked remotely, but in-person presence may be required periodically. Hybrid workplace requirements may change. The person in this role must be based in the New York City area upon starting employment.
Nivel de Idiomas
Fluency in Spanish strongly preferred.
Ubicación
Ubicación asociada
11th Floor
Cómo aplicar
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis. Please send applications to jobs@nylpi.org
with the subject line “Attention: Legal Advocate & Data Management Coordinator.” Applications must include:
- Detailed cover letter explaining your experience and interest, with a specific answer to
the following required question: How have your background or experiences, professional or otherwise, prepared you to contribute to our commitment to cultural competency and diversity, equity, and inclusion? Feel free to think broadly about your response to this question, applying various aspects of your life and personal experiences. Please also tell us in your cover letter where you saw this posting;
2. Resume; and
3. Writing sample (no more than 6 pages).
We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourage candidates fluent in multiple languages and candidates from historically oppressed groups to apply. We are committed to advancing social justice and civil rights in our advocacy, and we value the dynamism and perspective that staff diversity, equity, and inclusion bring to the work and culture of our organization. We strive to promote behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable us to work inclusively and effectively in cross-cultural situations with clients, co-workers, and community partners. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity and national origin; disability; socioeconomic background; sex, sexual orientation and gender identity; religion; political affiliation; or any other legally protected status. We actively recruit and seek to grow and maintain a diverse staff.
