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About the Role

Since 2008, Mission Action’s Deportation Defense & Legal Advocacy Program has been a local leader in providing pro bono legal defense for individuals and families facing deportation. The program uses creative legal and advocacy strategies to challenge prolonged detention, constitutional violations, and other injustices in the immigration legal system, representing individuals threatened with deportation through challenges to removability charges and applications for relief including asylum, withholding of removal, Convention Against Torture relief, waivers, U-visa, T-Visa, and VAWA relief. Dolores Street seeks a full-time, experienced legal assistant/paralegal to support attorneys in representing and providing legal assistance to low-income community members in removal proceedings.

Responsibilities

• Respond to calls, walk-ins, and correspondence from individuals seeking assistance or donations.
• Scan DDLAP mail and direct to appropriate DDLAP staff.
• Conduct intake and prepare non-complex DACA applications under attorney or DOJ Accredited Representative supervision.
• Coordinate and manage consultations and legal clinic schedule.
• Meet with clients to conduct interviews, gather documents, complete immigration forms, and draft client statements for attorney review.
• Translate documents and provide interpretation services for clients.
• Occasionally deliver legal documents to various courts and government agencies in San Francisco.
• Write correspondence to assist clients in obtaining records for their cases.
• Manage and coordinate databases, case files, and attorneys’ correspondence files.
• Assist in the coordination and management of grant reporting, including data input and file management.
• Assist the Program Director with check requests, invoices, supplies, reimbursements, and other administrative necessities.
• Perform other special projects and duties as assigned by Mission Action’s attorneys.
• Participate in agency meetings, community activities, and trainings.
• Engage in outreach, education, and advocacy in immigrant rights on local and state levels.
• Maintain and establish relationships with community partners and immigration service providers.
• Conduct business in accordance with the Mission Action Employee Handbook.
• Work within the agency’s mission, vision, values, theory of change, and commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, restorative justice, trauma-informed work, and language justice.
• Treat each community member with respect and dignity.
• Perform other assigned duties.

Requirements

• Fluency in Spanish and excellent written and oral English skills.
• Ability to work effectively and compassionately with survivors of trauma and clients with mental illness.
• Commitment to immigrant rights, community empowerment, and providing culturally competent services.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, with superb attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including professional phone manner.
• Ability to collaborate and work within a team and independently to manage priorities and workflow.

Skills

• Spanish fluency
• Written English proficiency
• Oral English proficiency
• Organizational skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail
• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Professional phone manner
• Collaboration
• Teamwork
• Independent work
• Priority management
• Workflow prioritization

Location

• San Francisco

Work Type

• Full-time equivalent
• Non-Exempt Position
• Flexible hours (M-F 9:30-5:30PM)

Experience Level

• Experienced

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $25/hr

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Commuter benefits
• Paid holiday
• Paid sick leave
• Generous vacation with Summer Recess and Winter Recess
• 401(K) with employer matching

Equal Opportunity

• Mission Action (www.dscs.org) is an equal-opportunity employer which values lived experience and seeks applicants of the greatest diversity possible. We encourage people of color, women, older people, members of the LGBTQ community, and individuals with disabilities, including HIV and community members who grew up in the Mission District. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.