Deputy Director

Job Details:

Job Location:

Minneapolis, MN 55403, Position Type:
Regular Full-Time Exempt, Salary Range: $88,817.00 - $ Salary/year,

Location:

Metro Location (Office in Minneapolis), Minnesota Disability Law Center – Deputy Director

Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid’s Minnesota Disability Law Center (MDLC) serves as the protection and advocacy system for people with disabilities in Minnesota. MDLC is seeking a full-time Deputy Director to lead and coordinate the work of MDLC. This Deputy Director position provides primary leadership and direction for the MDLC and its statewide impact, and represents MDLC within the disability rights community and to the public s position will be a member of the senior leadership team, reporting to the Executive Director.

This position will work in collaboration with the MDLC Legal Director to ensure that MMLA/MDLC civil legal services at the Minnesota Disability Law Center are efficiently managed, strategically engaged, and culturally competent. This position ensures MDLC services are professionally and equitably provided to MMLA/MDLC’s low-income, vulnerable, and underrepresented client communities. This position will be hybrid with an office at the Minneapolis office.

• We believe in work-life harmony. This role offers the flexibility to blend remote work with in-office collaboration.
• On Fridays, the office closes at noon and employees enjoy a half-day of paid flex time.
• MMLA provides on-the-job training and mentorship, with opportunities for growth within the organization.

• We’re not just ticking boxes. We’re genuinely committed to diversity. Bring your unique identity, experiences, and perspectives—we want them all!
• Our mission? Equal justice for all. In your cover letter, tell us how your background can amplify this cause. Let’s change our lives together.
• Discrimination and harassment have no place here. We’re building a respectful, supportive workplace where everyone thrives.

• Provide leadership in advancing organizational goals and objectives at MDLC, including MMLA’s racial justice values, commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity, and ensuring MMLA/MDLC’s work is rooted in the communities it serves
• Engage and coordinate with community and legal professional partnerships and collaborations in service area to provide high quality community-based legal services
• Management of MDLC grant budgets, staffing allocations, and work planning for nine federal grants, state funding, and other non-federal grants in consultation with the grants manager and fiscal/administrative staff
• Work with Grants Manager to explore, vet, and apply for new grant opportunities
• Lead federal audits in collaboration with Grants Manager and Director of Operations
• Oversight of a federally mandated Mental Health Advisory Council for work on behalf of people with mental health disabilities, ensuring Council remains in compliance with federal law requirements
• Leading MMLA Board- MDLC Oversight Committee, ensuring Committee’s membership and oversight meets federal requirements
• Lead annual MDLC priority-setting process and five-year strategic plans, including shepherding it through Advisory Council, Oversight Committee, and MMLA Board approvals
• Engagement with MMLA Board, including attendance at quarterly MMLA Board meetings to report on MDLC’s work
• Serving on MMLA’s Management committee as the Deputy Director of the MDLC unit
• Relationship-building with federal and state bench through participation on professional associations, committees, working groups, and boards
• Oversee legislative policy work
• Relationship-building with disability rights stakeholders
• Building and maintaining relationships throughout the National Disability Rights Network, a network…