Temporary Outreach Worker (Kalamazoo)
Job Description
- Client communication
- Case support
- Development and presentation of community legal education materials
Description of Program
Farmworker Legal Services (FLS) is a growing and nationally recognized non-profit law office and the statewide division of the Michigan Advocacy Program (MAP) that fights for justice and dignity alongside the farmworker community through our systemic, multi-forum community engagement and direct legal representation of farmworkers in their civil legal matters.
FLS currently has 12 full-time staff positions based out of our Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, and Ypsilanti (Ann Arbor area) offices and hires around 8 seasonal advocates each summer. FLS attorneys litigate complex wage and hour, multi-party employment, discrimination, and human trafficking cases in Michigan state and federal courts and provide a full range of civil legal services to Michigan’s eligible population of farmworkers and their dependents in matters such as: housing, T or U-visa applications for victims of employment-based crimes, workers’ compensation, public benefits, workplace health and safety, and unemployment administrative proceedings.
MAP works to advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions and has a staff of about 220 people in offices in Battle Creek, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Monroe, and Ypsilanti.
Visit www.miadvocacy.org and www.farmworkerlaw.org for more information.
Funding
Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply for outside funding (e.g. fellowships, school work programs, Equal Justice America), but these positions are paid if outside funding is not available.
Qualifications
- Fluent in written and oral English and Spanish
- Candidates with Spanish, Haitian Creole and indigenous language skills are strongly preferred
- Experience working with low-income persons
- A commitment to assisting underserved populations
- Reside in the state of Michigan while working for MAP