Legal Assistant

• Location 1060 Howard Street,San Francisco, CA, 94103,United States
• Base Pay $30.00 / Hour
• Employee Type Non-Exempt FT

Description

Founded in 1974, Swords to Plowshares is a community-based not-for-profit organization that provides counseling and case management, employment and training, housing, and legal assistance to veterans in the San Francisco Bay Area. We promote and protect the rights of veterans through advocacy, public education, and partnerships with local, state, and national entities. Believing that war causes wounds and suffering that last beyond the battlefield, our mission is to support veterans as they navigate the challenges of post-military life, and to prevent and end veteran homelessness through wrap-around care and informed advocacy.

To learn more about Swords to Plowshares, please visit our website rds-to-plowshares.org .

Legal Assistant

1060 Howard Street, San Francisco

Non-exempt and full time

$30 /hour

The full-time, non-exempt Legal Assistant supports the Legal Services team by performing administrative and general office duties as well as assists with grant tracking and reports. The role interacts with veteran clients seeking legal services and is responsible for conducting initial intake interviews, collecting necessary intake and grant documentation, and inputting data into our client management system. In addition, the role is responsible for assessing which clients meet our various grants criteria and tracking those clients and case outcomes in order to accurately report our work to meet grant deliverables.

• Accurately collect and enter client intake data into our Salesforce-based case management system; scan and upload documentation to the client's enrollment record
• Track grant deliverables and run reports of client data in the case management system to support grant reporting requirements; enter grant deliverable information into various online grant portals
• Meet with potential clients (in-person and by phone) to assess eligibility for legal services based on client location, presenting legal issue, and grant requirements
• Create and send documents and forms as needed by attorneys, including retainers, client record requests, claim paperwork, and case closing surveys
• Respond to email, telephone, and written inquiries for legal services and provide self-help legal information and referrals as needed
• Attend weekly staff meetings and supervisory check-in meetings
• Collect, sort, and distribute mail sent to the Legal Unit
• Perform other duties as required

Experience with or sensitivity to the needs of clients who are trauma survivors, experience mental health symptoms, are unhoused, and/or live with disabilities is preferred

Familiarity with veteran issues is preferred

Fluency in English and ability to effectively read, write, and communicate in English with staff, clients, and external partners and stakeholders.

Employees who are regularly scheduled to work 20 hours or more per week are eligible for all benefits.

• 100% employer sponsored medical, vision, acupuncture, and dental coverage. Swords to Plowshares covers partial dependent coverage cost. (Agency paid annual medical deductible paid via Navia HRA Card)
• Employee Assistance Program: 20 mental health counseling appointments available to all employees,
  regardless of Full-time status, at no cost to employees.
• Generous annual paid time off

17 vacation days in the first year & progressive afterwards

• Access to third party legal benefits, employee discount program, pet insurance, and Commuter Benefit.
• 1-hour paid lunch period, professional development reimbursements, and annual education allowance available to all employees.

* Employees who work on-call, in a temporary position, or less than 20 hours per week regularly are only eligible for our Employee Assistance Program, paid lunch hour, and San Francisco sick time. Vacation and sick time are pro-rated based upon full-time equivalent percentage.

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