Immigration Attorney

JOB TITLE:

Immigration Attorney/ Senior Immigration Attorney DEPARTMENT:
Immigration Legal Services

REPORTS TO:

Director of Immigration Legal Services

LOCATION:

Concord or Berkeley - Hybrid

EMPLOYMENT TYPE:

full time (37.5 hrs/wk), exempt

HOW TO APPLY

Please complete an application through the JFCS East Bay Career Center by clicking on the link or going to our website: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Please note:

If you apply via an external site (Indeed, Linked In, etc.) rather than directly through the Career Center, you may need to submit a cover letter and resume as one document if the site only allows for one uploaded attachment.

JFCS East Bay partners with our clients, staff, and community to pursue justice, promote healing, and advocate for meaningful change. We are an innovative human service and community-based organization that has served individuals and families throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties since 1877. We reunite and strengthen families, care for the mental and physical health needs of people impacted by trauma, support healthy relationships between young children and their caregivers, provide legal representation to immigrants, and resettle refugees who seek to start their lives anew.

We advocate for housing justice, mobilize community resources, and build bridges across our diverse East Bay to support our clients in meeting their goals and strengthening our community.

Our staff is characterized by its dedication, teamwork, warmth, and humor. JFCS East Bay actively seeks to hire team members who reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of East Bay and of our clients. If you are deeply committed to developing authentic relationships with clients and colleagues, thinking creatively, and advocating for justice for our clients, this is the role for you.

BIPOC, LGBTQ+, immigrant, multilingual, older adult or candidates with disabilities, and people of all faiths or none are encouraged to apply.

• We partner with our clients, staff, and community to advocate for justice and promote healing.
• We engage in our work with integrity, accountability, and transparency.
• We commit to anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• We maintain unwavering stance against antisemitism and all forms of prejudice.

JFCS East Bay is looking to hire an Immigration Attorney and/or a Senior Immigration Attorney to provide legal services to indigent immigrants in California. The position(s) will report to the Immigration Legal Services (ILS) Director. The overall goal of JFCS East Bay’s ILS program is to provide accessible legal services to low-income and vulnerable immigrant families so that they understand their rights and feel safe pursuing available legal options.

These services include legal consultations and representation in removal defense and affirmative immigration cases as well as occasional federal litigation. The Senior Attorney role, in addition to the above duties, combines direct representation of clients with staff supervision, mentoring, and program management. This position will work collaboratively with staff and volunteers to advance the organization’s mission of promoting social justice and equity for immigrant communities.

• Provide holistic representation to non-detained and detained immigrants who live in the East Bay in removal proceedings before the San Francisco and Concord Immigration Courts, as well as in matters before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS"), Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), Circuit Courts, and potentially state courts to obtain Special Immigrant Juvenile Status findings.
• Manage a caseload which can include affirmative applications and petitions such as family-based petitions, consular processing, and adjustment of status, humanitarian relief (VAWA, U visas, asylum, TPS, SIJS) and naturalization applications and unlawful presence waivers.
• Prepare and submit applications, declarations, legal briefs, and supporting documentation for cases involving asylum, withholding of removal, relief under the Convention Against Torture,…