Administrative Assistant, Immigrant Foster Youth Team

For 50 years Bet Tzedek has been committed to providing free legal services to those who need them most. In that tradition, Bet Tzedek, the House of Justice offers free legal services to undocumented youth in need of assistance securing Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and adjusting to lawful permanent resident status. Bet Tzedek assists unaccompanied minors under California Probate Court jurisdiction as well as foster children. Bet Tzedek is seeking an earnest, organized, and focused Spanish/English bilingual Administrative Assistant to support advocates with the representation of unaccompanied children in removal proceedings and the adjustment of status process.

This position is eligible for Bet Tzedek Legal Services’ hybrid/remote workplace designation. While the primary workplace is Bet Tzedek’s offices, at the discretion of the immediate supervisor, the employee may be permitted to work remotely or may be required to work in other locations depending on workload/business obligations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Data entry and data management, scanning, copying, and processing case files and records.
• Clearly and professionally communicate with clients, staff, pro bono counsel, volunteers, community partners, as needed.
• Assist in conducting intakes for potential clients as needed.
• Work collaboratively with advocates to develop and maintain consistent procedures for immigration matters from initial intake to case completion and file closure.
• Comply with case management and reporting procedures, including maintaining case data entry to ensure data is up-to-date and accurate for grant reports.
• Conduct follow-up communications with clients and assist with fact gathering and securing evidence.
• Provide other general administrative support as requested.

• AA/AS and/or BA/BS or equivalent work/life experience (required).
• Proficiency with MS Office and legal database (including Word; Power Point; Excel; Lexis Nexis/Westlaw) (required).
• At least one year of law firm or legal nonprofit experience (required).
• Spanish proficiency and ability to provide Spanish/English written translation and oral interpretation (required).
• Proficiency with NetDocuments or other web-based document management system (preferred).
• One year of experience working in immigration legal services (preferred).
• Demonstrated patience, compassion, respect, and commitment to serving low-income persons (required).
• Demonstrate an understanding and commitment to Bet Tzedek’s mission of equal justice for all and Bet Tzedek’s core values of leadership, community-based advocacy, and innovation (required).

BENEFITS PACKAGE:

Bet Tzedek offers an excellent benefits package in addition to competitive salaries. These benefits currently

include:

• A generous number of paid holidays, vacation, and sick days annually.
• Personal and floating holidays.
• Compensatory time for exempt employees.
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave (after 1 year of employment.)
• Medical, dental, vision, chiropractic and acupuncture coverage for employees and dependents, with office visit co-pay reimbursement for HMO enrollees.
• Life/accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, long-term disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Plan.
• Voluntary (employee-contributed) life/AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital confinement, and pet insurance.
• Employee-contributed 401(k) plan.
• Employee-contributed 403(b) plan.
• Healthcare and childcare flexible spending accounts.
• Commuter transit and/or parking benefits.

HOW TO APPLY:

• Email letter of interest and resume to bettzedek.E3.141@applynow.io, subject: “Administrative Assistant- Immigrant Foster Youth Team.” Please, no phone calls.

Note: All positions are subject to funding; ongoing funding or employment cannot be assured.

Bet Tzedek is a unionized environment. Our salary range for unionized positions reflects our agreed upon step placement system,

and the final offer extended to candidates is based on an internal equity review and candidates’ relevant experience, skills,

background, and bar date, if applicable.

To best serve our communities, Bet Tzedek seeks diverse staff with cultural competency reflecting our client populations. We

strongly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented communities and historically oppressed groups to apply.

$57,948.33- $71,662.68 (DOE/DOQ)