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About the Role

This position will focus on strengthening the legal capacity of legal service providers in California by furthering the ILRC’s technical support, capacity building, and policy work on behalf of immigrants and the practitioners who defend their rights. This position requires advanced expertise in removal defense, know-your-rights, or immigration options for children and youth.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a legal expert to provide information and guidance on complex immigration legal scenarios through trainings, case rounds, technical assistance requests and materials.
• Respond to requests for technical legal assistance from attorneys and nonprofit agency staff who work with low-income immigrants on issues relating to family-based immigration, removal and deportation defense, release from detention, VAWA, U visa, asylum, SIJS, naturalization and citizenship, immigration enforcement, know your rights information, and other immigration-related issues.
• Write manuals, practice advisories, and outreach and educational materials for attorneys, paralegals, community organizers, members of the immigrant community, and other sectors.
• Analyze emergent legal and policy changes impacting immigrant communities and disseminate rapid alerts to partners.
• Prepare and lead webinars and in-person seminars on a variety of topics in immigration law.
• Work with networks of other immigrant rights organizations, attend coalition meetings, and present to groups on immigration law, policy, and immigrant rights issues.
• Coordinate and track project deliverables to ensure the ILRC’s materials and trainings are responsive to the needs of project partners and practitioners.
• Write reports to foundations and represent the ILRC in meetings with funders and supporters.
• Cultivate relationships with potential and current funders.
• Travel for trainings, funder visits, and other events throughout California and occasionally other states.

Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience representing clients in the practice of general immigration law including representation in immigration court and appeals.
• Broad knowledge of immigration law, including the grounds of inadmissibility and deportability and eligibility for relief.
• Experience or interest in developing knowledge of know your rights information.
• Strong foundation in removal defense practice, federal court litigation, and/or legal responses to immigration enforcement.
• Excellent writing, editing, and legal analysis skills.
• Excellent training and presentation skills.
• Ability to lead meetings and communicate with a range of people, including attorneys, community members, advocates, policy-makers, funders, and others.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Willingness to work closely with and learn from colleagues, including being willing to take direction and editing from others and to incorporate feedback.
• A strong work ethic, including being organized, flexible, reliable, and dependable.
• Ability to work independently and handle several projects simultaneously.
• Willing to participate in team-based efforts and a collaborative decision-making environment.
• Willingness to travel approximately 10-15% of their time across California and at times, nationally.
• A current California Bar membership in good standing.
• Experience and strong knowledge in one or more of the following practice areas: Removal defense (including appeals), Know-your-rights and community education, including tracking immigration enforcement trends, Representing children and youth, particularly youth clients in removal proceedings.

Skills

• Immigration law
• Removal defense
• Know-your-rights
• Immigration options for children and youth
• Family-based immigration
• Deportation defense
• Release from detention
• VAWA
• U visa
• Asylum
• SIJS
• Naturalization and citizenship
• Immigration enforcement
• Federal court litigation
• Legal analysis
• Training
• Presentation
• Meeting leadership
• Communication
• Time management
• Teamwork
• Collaboration
• Writing
• Editing
• Grant writing
• Technical writing
• Public speaking
• Coalition building
• Community engagement
• Second language proficiency

Location

• San Francisco, CA

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time
• Exempt
• Bargaining unit

Experience Level

• Senior
• 7 years of experience representing clients in the practice of general immigration law
• More than 7 years of experience

Education Level

• Law degree

Salary/Compensations

• $112,492.23 starting pay for 7 years out of law school
• Higher salary for attorneys with more than 7 years of experience, e.g., $126,008.70 for 10 years out of law school

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) sessions
• Flexible spending account for medical and dependent care
• Vacation leave
• Sick leave
• Retirement plan contribution upon fulfillment of eligibility
• Annual professional development stipend of $2,500
• Annual wellness stipend of $2,500 (2025-2027)
• Sabbatical program (8-week after 5 years, 12-week after 10 years)

About the Company

• The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is a leading immigrant rights organization headquartered in San Francisco with staff in Washington, D.C.; Texas; Southern California; the Central Valley of California; and Washington state.
• Since 1979, our mission has been to educate, support, and empower immigrants, community organizations, and legal practitioners to build a more just, inclusive, and democratic society.
• Our team is passionate, collaborative, and committed to equity and innovation in all we do.

Equal Opportunity

• The ILRC is an equal opportunity employer and does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious beliefs, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.
• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, ILRC will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records.