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About the Role

El Puente is seeking a compassionate, organized, and values-driven Immigration Specialist to serve as an Independent Contractor (1099) for a temporary, grant-funded engagement. This role supports individuals and families navigating immigration processes, strengthens community knowledge, and promotes stability. The Immigration Specialist will provide direct assistance with immigration applications, facilitate education workshops, and build relationships with legal partners and advocacy organizations, ensuring services are responsive, culturally grounded, and aligned with the organization's commitment to justice, dignity, and self-determination.

Responsibilities

Provide initial consultations and assess community members’ needs, offering clear and culturally responsive guidance regarding immigration options, rights, and application processes.
Assist individuals and families in gathering, preparing, and organizing documentation for immigration-related filings, including Form I-589, Form I-765, motions to change venue, and Form EOIR-33.
Facilitate Know Your Rights workshops and community education sessions focused on immigration policies, legal rights, and available services.
Maintain and regularly update immigration resource guides, referral trackers, and service documentation.
Conduct outreach to raise awareness of immigration services and connect community members to legal, educational, and supportive resources.
Coordinate and facilitate immigration legal clinics in partnership with El Puente's contracted immigration attorney.
Build and maintain strong relationships with legal service providers, community-based organizations, advocacy groups, and government agencies.
Monitor changes in immigration policies and procedures to ensure services and educational materials remain accurate and up to date.
Serve as a key representative of El Puente in immigration-focused coalitions and advocacy spaces, including collaboration with the New York Immigration Coalition.
Organize public meetings, outreach events, and partner convenings that advance immigrant rights and civic participation.
Implement and oversee all immigration-related grant activities.
Track program outputs, outcomes, and community impact.
Prepare and submit timely narrative and quantitative reports aligned with funder expectations.
Coordinate internally to ensure immigration programming aligns with grant goals, compliance requirements, and reporting timelines.
Manage grant rollovers and transitions to ensure continuity of services and successful completion of deliverables.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in immigration services, social services, community organizing, legal support, or a related field.
Fluency in both English and Spanish is required.
Experience assisting individuals with immigration-related documentation and application preparation.
Strong knowledge of immigration processes, legal rights education, and community resources.
Flexibility to work occasional evenings or weekends to meet community needs.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex information in clear and accessible language.
Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities with attention to detail.
Experience maintaining accurate records, service trackers, and program documentation.
Comfort working both independently and collaboratively across teams and partnerships.
A demonstrated connection to El Puente’s mission and a genuine alignment with work rooted in justice, culture, and community.
Experience with grant-funded programs and reporting.
Experience facilitating workshops and community education sessions.
Familiarity with New York City immigrant-serving networks and resources.

Skills

Immigration services
Social services
Community organizing
Legal support
English fluency
Spanish fluency
Immigration documentation preparation
Immigration application preparation
Immigration processes knowledge
Legal rights education
Community resources knowledge
Communication skills
Organizational skills
Record keeping
Grant management
Workshop facilitation

Location

Brooklyn, NY

Work Type

In-person
Independent Contractor (1099)
Temporary

Experience Level

Contractor

Education Level

4 Year Degree

Salary/Compensations

$33,654.00 - $33,654.00

Benefits

Not eligible for employee benefits, including health insurance, retirement benefits, paid time off, or other employee benefit programs.
Contractor will be responsible for all applicable taxes and obligations associated with independent contractor status.

About the Company

Founded in 1982, El Puente is a youth-centered human rights organization rooted in Brooklyn, New York and Puerto Rico, using the arts, education, and environmental justice as tools to inspire and nurture leadership for peace and justice.
For over four decades, El Puente has been building community-led movements grounded in self-determination, where young people, families, and communities are not only participants, but leaders shaping the future of their neighborhoods and beyond.
Through a holistic leadership and membership model, the organization creates spaces where culture, identity, and activism intersect.
El Puente’s work spans Youth Leadership Centers across Brooklyn, a nationally recognized public high school, environmental justice initiatives, and organizing efforts that place community voice at the center of change.
From local neighborhoods to global conversations, the organization continues to stand at the forefront of movements for equity, climate justice, and human rights.
At its core, El Puente is deeply relational, intergenerational, and community-rooted.
The work is dynamic and responsive, grounded in the lived experiences of the communities it serves.
As the organization continues to grow, it remains committed to strengthening both its programs and the systems that sustain them, ensuring that its impact is not only powerful, but enduring.

Equal Opportunity

El Puente is an equal opportunity organization committed to a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace that reflects the communities it serves.
It provides equal opportunities to contractors and applicants and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law.
El Puente strongly encourages applications from women, people of color, DREAMers, and members of the LGBTQ+ communities.