Community access and integration manager

Advocates for Immigrant Rights is seeking someone to fill the role of Community Access and Integration Manager.

DESCRIPTION: This position is full-time, requires the ability to speak English and Spanish fluently. This position serves the Community Access and Integration Program, which supports clients of Advocates for Immigrant Rights (AIR) through client advocacy, outreach, referrals, support groups, and educational programming. The role of this position is to continually pursue and maintain collaborative partnerships with social service organizations throughout the Mid-South in order to ensure that our clients can access available resources and integrate their lives into our community for the long term.  

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Oversee Community Access and Integration Program

  • Working with ED to set program goals, develop processes to collect and assess data

  • Prepare and submit reports evaluating outcomes and deliverables

  • Program specific grant writing

  • Program specific budgeting

  • Ensure organized record keeping

  • Cultivate relationships with a wide variety of social service programs within AIR’s service area that can serve as resources to AIR clients

  • Work to develop client-facing educational and outreach materials, including social media, client newsletters, etc.

  • Supervise Client Advocates and provide support where Client Advocates are inexperienced or unprepared for certain issues

  • Maintain a structure and process for case management and ensure that case management is thorough and effective

  • Engage in case conferences with Legal Staff regarding clients with issues affecting client’s ability to participate in their legal case

  • Engage in difficult conversations alongside Client Advocates with clients around past trauma or helping to explain difficult concepts or disappointing news

  • Designing plans in collaboration with attorneys and Client Advocates to protect clients from retraumatization

  • Case management where necessary

  • Prepare and present trainings on issues effecting staff

  • Identify and arrange for trainings for clients on issues identified by CAIP and Legal Staff

  • Oversee campaigns or initiatives to provide needed services to clients

  • Update and maintain resource guides for services and resources across AIR’s service area with the specific representative(s) contact for each organization and notes about how the resource serves our clients

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Fluency in Spanish required

  • Advanced degree in social work

  • At least 3-4 years relevant experience

  • Working knowledge of social service resources

  • Excellent communication skills

  • High level of empathy and sensitivity to the needs of others

  • Cultural competency to work with a diverse client population

Salary and Benefits 

Salary for this full-time position is $50,000 to $55,000 commensurate with qualifications and experience, excellent benefits including health insurance coverage and generous paid time off as well as the opportunity to participate in a group SIMPLE IRA plan and federal loan forgiveness eligibility.

To apply, please send a cover letter explaining your interest in the position, a resume with three references (name, position, phone number and email address), and a writing sample to admin@airlegal.org.