Senior Service Provider - Legal Services, Bakersfield, CA
Job Description Job Description FLSA STATUS:
ExemptLOCATION:
Bakersfield, CAHIRING RANGE:
$67,000.
00 to $77,000.
00, with the anticipated starting salary not to exceed $67,000.
00 unless the applicant has significant experience.
About UFW Foundation:
For 17 years, the UFW Foundation has mobilized farm workers and their organizations across the country to advocate for more equitable policies, such as immigration reform, pesticide protections, heat standards, hazard pay and other worker protections.
We engage constituents in systemic change to break the cycle of poverty while also providing critical services.
In fact, the UFW Foundation is the largest federally accredited immigration legal service provider in the state of California.
The organization has staff in California, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, and Michigan.
The UFW Foundation's Immigration Legal Services Program provides high quality comprehensive affirmative and removal defense services and representation before U.
S.
Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS), Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), and California State Courts.
We represent low-income clients in an array of affirmative and defensive applications, including but not limited to family petitions, U-visa/VAWA, Waivers, Naturalization and DACA, as well as Asylum/Withholding/CAT, Cancellation of Removal and Special Immigrants Juvenile Status (SIJS).
We also represent unaccompanied minors as a VERA/Office of Refugee and Resettlement sub-grantee before EOIR and CA Family and Probate courts across 7 counties.
Summary:
The Senior Service Provider position will (1) provide affirmative immigration relief services; (2) may provide representation of clients in deportation proceedings; (3) outreach at assigned community college campuses; and (4) work closely with other UFW Foundation programs to drive an organizing culture which influences systemic change.
The Senior Service Provider will be a member of the Community Colleges Immigration Services Project whose goal it is to provide students, staff, and faculty free immigration legal services, including education and outreach services, on campus as well as through the UFW Foundation's Teleconsulta services, (Telemedicine model for immigration consultations).
The UFW Foundation seeks an individual with experience working with immigrant communities that can help the organization, in collaboration with the UFW Foundation's various programs and departments, as well as its partners, to develop a service delivery model that will maximize the limited resources in rural communities and leverage relationships from urban centers.
Essential Functions:
(This list is not exhaustive):
Provide services to community college students, staff, faculty and their families with affirmative immigration applications, as well as removal defense cases;Assess immigration relief needs of community college students, staff, faculty and determine eligibility for available immigration benefits, including but not limited to:
naturalization, DACA renewal, employment authorization, family-based petitions, adjustment of status, and renewal of permanent resident card, asylum, and removal defense issuesAssist at UFW Foundation led naturalization and DACA renewal group processing events;Assist with community legal education presentations and outreach activities, such as Know Your Rights presentations and other affirmative immigration relief information sessions;Attend all triage meetings as scheduled to screen for potential clients;Explain initial and/or appeal processes and timelines;Give clients a clear analysis on their cases, relief options and next steps;Identify trends in Department of Homeland Services practices and community needs that will help inform advocacy efforts;Prepare and submit applications, legal briefs, and supporting documentation for immigration relief, including but not limited to:
naturalization, DACA renewal, employment authorization, family-based petitions, adjustment of status, and renewal of permanent resident card, asylum, withholding, relief under the Convention Against Torture, U visa, VAWA, adjustment of status with applicable waivers, refugee waivers, Special Immigrant Juvenile Visas and other general removal defense issues.
Prepare and submit reports to program funders as assigned;Provide trainings and technical assistance to UFW Foundation staff, volunteers and partner organizations;Regular travel to necessary court hearings community colleges (as assigned), UFW Foundation service centers and trainings;Review criminal dispositions and analyze immigration consequences;Support UFW Foundation member services department application workshops and other events, when possible;Work closely with Attorney Coordinators and Directing Attorneys to maximize case output;Work diligently to file cases;Support UFW Foundation's fundraising goals; andOther tasks as needed.
SUPERVISORY
Responsibilities:
#J-18808-Ljbffr Recommended Skills Fundraising Immigration Presentations Triage Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals Naturalization Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
ExemptLOCATION:
Bakersfield, CAHIRING RANGE:
$67,000.
00 to $77,000.
00, with the anticipated starting salary not to exceed $67,000.
00 unless the applicant has significant experience.
About UFW Foundation:
For 17 years, the UFW Foundation has mobilized farm workers and their organizations across the country to advocate for more equitable policies, such as immigration reform, pesticide protections, heat standards, hazard pay and other worker protections.
We engage constituents in systemic change to break the cycle of poverty while also providing critical services.
In fact, the UFW Foundation is the largest federally accredited immigration legal service provider in the state of California.
The organization has staff in California, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, and Michigan.
The UFW Foundation's Immigration Legal Services Program provides high quality comprehensive affirmative and removal defense services and representation before U.
S.
Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS), Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), and California State Courts.
We represent low-income clients in an array of affirmative and defensive applications, including but not limited to family petitions, U-visa/VAWA, Waivers, Naturalization and DACA, as well as Asylum/Withholding/CAT, Cancellation of Removal and Special Immigrants Juvenile Status (SIJS).
We also represent unaccompanied minors as a VERA/Office of Refugee and Resettlement sub-grantee before EOIR and CA Family and Probate courts across 7 counties.
Summary:
The Senior Service Provider position will (1) provide affirmative immigration relief services; (2) may provide representation of clients in deportation proceedings; (3) outreach at assigned community college campuses; and (4) work closely with other UFW Foundation programs to drive an organizing culture which influences systemic change.
The Senior Service Provider will be a member of the Community Colleges Immigration Services Project whose goal it is to provide students, staff, and faculty free immigration legal services, including education and outreach services, on campus as well as through the UFW Foundation's Teleconsulta services, (Telemedicine model for immigration consultations).
The UFW Foundation seeks an individual with experience working with immigrant communities that can help the organization, in collaboration with the UFW Foundation's various programs and departments, as well as its partners, to develop a service delivery model that will maximize the limited resources in rural communities and leverage relationships from urban centers.
Essential Functions:
(This list is not exhaustive):
Provide services to community college students, staff, faculty and their families with affirmative immigration applications, as well as removal defense cases;Assess immigration relief needs of community college students, staff, faculty and determine eligibility for available immigration benefits, including but not limited to:
naturalization, DACA renewal, employment authorization, family-based petitions, adjustment of status, and renewal of permanent resident card, asylum, and removal defense issuesAssist at UFW Foundation led naturalization and DACA renewal group processing events;Assist with community legal education presentations and outreach activities, such as Know Your Rights presentations and other affirmative immigration relief information sessions;Attend all triage meetings as scheduled to screen for potential clients;Explain initial and/or appeal processes and timelines;Give clients a clear analysis on their cases, relief options and next steps;Identify trends in Department of Homeland Services practices and community needs that will help inform advocacy efforts;Prepare and submit applications, legal briefs, and supporting documentation for immigration relief, including but not limited to:
naturalization, DACA renewal, employment authorization, family-based petitions, adjustment of status, and renewal of permanent resident card, asylum, withholding, relief under the Convention Against Torture, U visa, VAWA, adjustment of status with applicable waivers, refugee waivers, Special Immigrant Juvenile Visas and other general removal defense issues.
Prepare and submit reports to program funders as assigned;Provide trainings and technical assistance to UFW Foundation staff, volunteers and partner organizations;Regular travel to necessary court hearings community colleges (as assigned), UFW Foundation service centers and trainings;Review criminal dispositions and analyze immigration consequences;Support UFW Foundation member services department application workshops and other events, when possible;Work closely with Attorney Coordinators and Directing Attorneys to maximize case output;Work diligently to file cases;Support UFW Foundation's fundraising goals; andOther tasks as needed.
SUPERVISORY
Responsibilities:
#J-18808-Ljbffr Recommended Skills Fundraising Immigration Presentations Triage Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals Naturalization Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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