Program Coordinator, Community & Economic Advisory Program

Since 1968,Build Up Justice NYChas provided free legal services for low-income residents of Brooklyn, pursuing neighborhood-based mission of justice, empowerment, and community development. For over half a century, we have utilized an array of legal and advocacy strategies—community organizing, affirmative civil rights litigation, and eviction defense to defend the rights of individuals and families. Collaboration with the city, state, and federal officials to enforce housing laws and develop legislative solutions is also an integral part of our strategy.

Build Up Justice NYC has three core programs—Preserving Affordable Housing (PAH) Program, Consumer & Economic Advocacy (CEA) Program, and Community Economic Development (CED) Program—each of which has unique initiatives and plays a vital community role to ensure basic needs are met and fundamental rights affirmed.

The CEA Program uses civil legal remedies in the state and federal courts such as representing clients in foreclosure litigation, homeowners against deed theft and modification scams through affirmative litigation and assists homeowners with loan modifications and tax and water liens. The CEA Program also provides non-legal advocacy such as town hall meetings, providing referrals, and working with coalitions for legislative policy changes to protect economic equity of low-and moderate-income families.

The Program goal is to strive to ensure that economically vulnerable groups have strong safeguards in place to help them build and maintain assets throughout their financial lives. The CEA Program manages the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic that represents low-income taxpayers in tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and New York State Department of Taxation and Finance and educates low-income and ESL taxpayers about taxpayer rights and responsibilities and advocate on their behalf.

Build Up Justice NYC is currently one of the few not-for-profit legal service organizations in the country handling from inception to end in-depth and complex Chapter 13 and Chapter 11 bankruptcies.

The Program Coordinator will be responsible for providing administrative support, intake screenings, data entry and reporting, and participating in community outreach and educational activities. They will work directly with clients by performing intake interviews, managing the team calendarandattendmeetings with internal and external program stakeholders.

• Perform intake and screening, and provide advocacy and informational services to potential clients by phone, email and at clinical programs in the community and community events;
• Maintain program data in case management systems andassist with gathering and monitoring data for grant reporting;
• Create and prepare program collateral materials for outreach initiatives such as webinars, workshops; training sessions and other outreach activities;
• Work directly with external stakeholders to coordinate, support, and attend webinars, events, and clinics for low-income taxpayer participants in targeted neighborhoods;
• Manage program director and team calendar and scheduling to include client contact and meeting follow-up;
• Maintain paper and electronic file system to ensure all information is accounted for complete;
• Maintain up-to-date client information in B UJNYC’s and funder’s data management systems to ensure accurate data collection and statistical tracking for report preparation;
• Track intern and volunteer time and manage participation in workshops, trainings, etc.;
• Collaborate as needed with program director and development team to write narrative reports for grant and contracts;
• Attend meetings and perform administrative tasks related to the work, such scanning, filing,…