LEGAL TEAM MANAGER

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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">About the Organization</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">HBA headquartered in San Diego is seeking a seasoned and mission-driven Immigrants' Rights Legal Manager to lead our immigration legal services. This senior-level position is ideal for someone with deep expertise in immigration law and a strong commitment to community-centered advocacy. The role offers the opportunity to supervise a growing legal team, support high-impact cases, and shape the strategic direction of our immigrants' rights work.</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">About the Role</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">As the Immigrants' Rights Legal Manager, you will oversee day-to-day operations of the immigration legal team, including attorneys, legal assistants, hotline workers and volunteers, ensuring high-quality service delivery and efficient case management. You'll maintain your own caseload of short- and long-term matters while also serving as a legal and strategic advisor on organizational priorities, including rapid response efforts, litigation, and coalition work.  </span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Schedule Type</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">: Full-time (Exempt). </span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Location</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">: In-office position with limited remote work available.  Based in HBA's San Diego office.  Some of HBA's staff are currently working both in CA and remote.</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Requirements</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">:  Authorization to work in the United States.</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Reporting Relationships</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">: Reports to the Chief of Staff. Supervises immigration staff, including attorneys, legal assistants and hotline</span><br><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">intake workers.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Key Responsibilities</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Leadership and Supervision</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Provide leadership and supervision to the Immigrants' Rights legal team</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Immigrants' Rights team including management of intakes, civil rights staff, clerks, and monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Supervise case assignments, case tracking processes, casework of attorneys, coordinators, caseworkers, paralegals, and volunteers, provide legal oversight and expertise to ensure proper legal practice of the team, monitor and balance caseloads for individual attorneys, oversee and adjust the Hotline/Intake team’s messaging and initial triage of cases for possible acceptance, review and determine which cases are appropriate for HBA to accept, develop professional correspondence to notify individuals when/if cases are accepted or rejected and ensure that all aspects of the Legal Team are operating to a high standard of excellence.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Oversee retained case load to ensure all intakes and retained cases are properly documented and advanced</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Participate in HBA's Management Team, including regular meetings, advice to executives, and facilitation of organizational goals</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Legal Representation</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Conduct client intake, determine a protocol for accepting or rejecting specific types of cases, engage in triage of cases to determine case acceptance, oversee and/or prepare applications, and petitions for submission to the appropriate agencies</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Represent clients before various government agencies and in litigation</span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Manage a reasonable personal and high-impact caseload, balancing short-term direct services and longer-term full scope retainers</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Review cases for acceptance by the Legal Team as part of a triage process.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Determine systems for tracking accepted or rejected cases with accuracy.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Assign cases to Legal Team members</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Monitor and manage to the available and realistic capacity of the team when accepting and/or assigning new cases</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Provide legal mentoring and support to legal team when needed</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Ensure that the systems in use by the Legal Team alert team members to upcoming hearings or other due-dates.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Hold regular supervision check-ins with team members (at least bi-weekly)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Support a high-functioning legal team that allows for both individual and collateral support among team members as-needed</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Require all Legal Team members to be client-centered in their work</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Provide regular training of Legal Team members or others to ensure high quality legal work in all regards.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Hold team members accountable to the standards, policies and expectations of HBA through supervision.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Develop and adhere to an appropriate team structure and team-based boundaries.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Community Engagement</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Respond to intake requests from organizational leaders for key community stakeholders and members to ensure they are properly addressed</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Participate in community outreach and educational activities, including planning and conducting Know Your Rights events and Immigration Legal clinics</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Work in, lead, or form coalitions with other organizations and collaborate with civil rights partners</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Co-lead HBA's efforts on rapid response issues, alongside HBA's Management Team</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Remain informed and abreast of changes in the immigration landscape</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Legal Research and Documentation</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Research and analyze law sources such as statutes, legal articles, and legal codes</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Prepare legal writing including, but not limited to, drafting complaints, discovery, briefs, letters, and memos; and non-legal writing including drafting community advisories, issue briefings, and reports</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Identify, develop, lead, and support litigation efforts including legal writing and review of complaints, demand letters, motions, discovery, and other litigation-related documents; conducting and defending depositions; attending legal hearings</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Be knowledgeable of and support  grant requirements and reporting for current and future grants as received</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Client Assessment and Referrals</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Assess clients for other legal services and immigrants' rights-related needs, as appropriate</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Grow referral database and utilize it strategically and thoughtfully to provide referrals to potential clients who HBA is unable to assist</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Marketing and Reporting</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Partner with the Executive Director, Development, Communications Manager, and colleagues to strategize and implement marketing for HBA's immigrants' rights services and impact</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Assist other staff in the production of internal and external reports, including serving as the final reviewer if needed</span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">All HBA's staff are required to assist in general duties such as answering phones, weekly outreach, and other office tasks.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Required Qualifications</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">At least 5 years of immigration law, or other relevant, experience, including at least one year of training and mentoring other legal workers</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">At least 3 years of experience supervising professional staff, preferably in a law firm or non-profit setting.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">A strong commitment to civil rights and HBA's mission</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Law degree from an American Bar Association accredited school</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Member in good standing of a state bar</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Strong time management skills with a demonstrated ability to meet deadlines</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Demonstrated problem-solving skills with outstanding attention to detail</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Comfort working productively in a fast-paced, individual and team-oriented environment</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Excellent oral and written communication skills including public speaking experience</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Experience working with people from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">High degree of self-motivation, creativity and emotional intelligence</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Excellent interpersonal and professional boundaries</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Basic computer proficiency including knowledge of legal platforms, MS Office, MS Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, and LexisNexis</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Knowledge of cloud applications such as SharePoint and Office365</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Preferred Qualifications</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Experience working with the American Muslim community and/or in a community, faith-based, and/or non-profit organization</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Knowledge of cloud applications such as SharePoint, Office365, and social media applications</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Conversational proficiency in Haitian Kreyòl, French, Spanish</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Compensation</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Compensation in the range of $110,000- $120,000/annually, commensurate with experience</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Benefits</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Health Insurance</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">401K retirement matching contribution</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Paid holidays, sick days, and vacation days</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">To Apply please submit: </span></p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">A cover letter discussing your interest in the position</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Your resume</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Brief example of your writing</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Names and contact information of three professional references, at least one of which is or was your supervisor.</span></li>\n</ol>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Application Deadline</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Early applications are strongly encouraged.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">HBA is an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected class.  We adhere to all federal, state, and local laws prohibiting employment discrimination.  If an applicant requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact </span><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">[email protected]</span></a></p>",
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