Immigration Legal Director

About the role

Pars Equality Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting immigrants, refugees, and low‑income individuals and families, with expertise serving Persian‑speaking communities. Through offices in Los Angeles, San Jose, and Fremont, Pars provides comprehensive immigration legal services, social services, mental health support, workforce development, adult education, and community‑based programs. The Immigration Legal Director provides strategic, operational, and legal leadership for Pars Equality Center’s Immigration Legal Services Department, encompassing Pars’s Los Angeles, San Jose, and Fremont offices. The Director will oversee a team of attorneys, DOJ‑accredited representatives, legal assistants, and volunteers providing comprehensive, culturally responsive immigration legal services across all Pars offices. This role ensures legal quality, strong case‑management practices, staff supervision, program development, grant compliance, and community impact. Based in San Jose or Los Angeles, this full‑time, exempt, in‑person position reports to the Chief Operating Officer / Executive Leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall strategy, operations, and growth of Pars’s Immigration Legal Services Department.
• Maintain expertise in immigration law, policy developments, USCIS procedures, and immigration court practice relevant to the communities we serve.
• Oversee and directly provide legal consultations and affirmative immigration services, including naturalization, family‑based petitions, asylum, adjustment of status, work authorization, and other immigration legal services offered by Pars.
• Ensure that all legal services are delivered ethically, accurately, timely, and in compliance with applicable professional‑responsibility rules, USCIS requirements, DOJ recognition and accreditation standards, and funder requirements.
• Establish and maintain case‑review, supervision, and quality‑control procedures.
• Review complex, high‑risk, or sensitive cases and provide legal guidance and consultation to legal department staff.
• Monitor caseloads, case outcomes, client wait times, service targets, and program performance across all Pars immigration offices.
• Develop policies, workflows, forms, and internal procedures that strengthen the quality, consistency, and efficiency of Pars’s immigration legal services.
• Recruit, hire, train, supervise, mentor, and evaluate immigration legal staff, including attorneys, DOJ‑accredited representatives, paralegals, legal assistants, interns, and legal volunteers.
• Conduct regular supervision meetings, case reviews, and team meetings.
• Promote a supportive, accountable, collaborative, and trauma‑informed workplace culture.
• Identify staff training needs and ensure ongoing professional development.
• Support DOJ‑accredited representative pathways and professional development for