Immigration Unit Program Director Req - 5141

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct supervision to staff attorneys across Immigration practice areas, ensuring high-quality client advocacy and legal assistance.
• Foster a collaborative team environment that prioritizes holistic client advocacy.
• Conduct regular case reviews, provide feedback, and assist attorneys with complex legal strategies.
• Ensure assigned programs operate in compliance with applicable contractual, legal, and ethical requirements.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant laws and best practices in domestic violence advocacy, and immigration law.
• In collaboration with the vice president of legal services, help to set the strategic direction for BronxWorks Legal Services programs, with a particular focus on a designated portfolio consisting of the immigration and domestic violence legal services programs.
• Supervise all staff attorneys within the assigned portfolio. Provide appropriate and timely training, coaching, mentoring, regular supervision, evaluation, and feedback.
• Implement processes to ensure high standards of legal representation, client advocacy and effective supervision of all aspects of legal assistance.
• Ensure required program deliverables are timely met.
• Develop and maintain practice guidance and templates, staff training, and ongoing professional development.
• Develop and implement policies and procedures for best practices and service quality.
• Develop metrics, reports, and dashboards to evaluate and communicate program performance against contract deliverables.
• Timely submit all required grant reporting.
• Timely address requests and recommendations from the continuous quality improvement specialist for the legal services department.
• Represent the legal services department and organization with funding agencies, provider networks and coalitions, and internal leadership groups.
• Attend meetings, participate in networks and coalitions, and build partnerships to promote organizational, department, program, and client interests.
• Ensure legal services personnel effectively collaborate with other BronxWorks programs and external resources to comprehensively address client needs.
• May engage in direct client casework and legal representation, as may be appropriate and needed due to case complexity, legal importance, staffing vacancies, or other factors.
• Oversee creation of program materials, such as reports, proposals, website content, annual impact report, social media, and similar content.
• Collaborate with the vice president to co-facilitate department meetings, including setting agendas and leading discussions.

Required Qualifications

• Admission to the New York State Bar in good standing or eligible for admission through reciprocity.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible practice experience as an admitted attorney, including at least 2 years of experience supervising attorneys and paralegals.
• Experience in immigration practice including citizenship applications, DACA, family petitions, adjustment of status to permanent resident, green card renewals, temporary protected status, petitions to remove conditions on permanent residency, U Visas, VAWA relief, and work authorization and renewal.
• Comprehensive knowledge of immigration law.
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice and working in low-income communities and communities of color to advance equity.
• Ability to effectively communicate with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• Excellent legal research, oral and written advocacy, analytical, and communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills and a commitment to supporting, training, and mentoring staff.
• Sound judgment, strategic, and driven towards continuous practice improvements and program development.
• Proficiency in computer skills for database tracking, report preparation, communication, and administrative tasks.
• Strong time-management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work well independently and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary setting.
• Fluency in Spanish is highly preferred.