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Immigrants’ Rights Staff Attorney
San Diego, CA Position: Immigrants’ Rights Staff Attorney Organization: ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties (ACLUF-SDIC) Location: San Diego & Imperial Counties, California Salary Range: $65,000 - $96,000 About the Organization: The ACLUF-SDIC is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) civil liberties and civil rights organization. It works to advance equality, freedom, and justice through public education and litigation. Together with the **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***, the 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that does legislative lobbying work, the ACLUF-SDIC is a prominent force for the protection and expansion of fundamental rights in California’s second-most populous county (San Diego) and the county with the highest per capita Latina/o population (Imperial). With affiliate offices in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, the ACLU fights tirelessly in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the United States Constitution and U.S. laws to everyone in this country. The work of the ACLUF-SDIC encompasses the length of California’s border with Mexico and collaborates with the National ACLU and with ACLU affiliates in California, on the U.S-Mexico border, and throughout the United States. About the Position: The Immigrants’ Rights Staff Attorney is responsible for investigating, analyzing, and addressing issues faced by immigrants in San Diego & Imperial Counties that may be caused by violations of legal and policy protections and/or prevented by improvements in those protections. Working within the affiliate’s Advancing Immigrants’ Rights team and in collaboration with the statewide ACLU of California Immigrants’ Rights team, the attorney will work within the Advancing Immigrants’ Rights team to devise and implement strategies to address problems through legal advocacy and litigation, policy reform and implementation, community education, and strategic communications. The Immigrants’ Rights Staff Attorney will be in the Advocacy and Legal Department and supervised by the Advancing Immigrant Rights’ Team Lead with the Deputy Legal Director providing supervision on litigation matters. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: - Working with the Advancing Immigrant Rights Issue Team Lead, Senior Managing Attorney and impacted communities to identify, research, develop, and pursue immigrants’ rights legal and policy initiatives consistent with affiliate priorities developed through the Advancing Immigrants’ Rights team. - Providing legal and policy expertise on immigrants’ rights issues, including researching, drafting, or editing legal advocacy letters, amicus briefs, legislation, regulatory comments, reports, policy briefs, and coalition sign-on letters; participating in legislative briefings and meetings with federal, state, and local government officials; contributing legal analysis and support to designated legal, policy, organizing, communications, or development work of the affiliate as appropriate; and conducting legal and policy research to support the Advancing Immigrants’ Rights team. - Investigating, monitoring, and advocating for local and federal compliance with existing legal and policy requirements, and identifying and developing strategies for achieving improvements in legal and policy protections for immigrants. - Researching and maintaining up-to-date awareness of current immigration enforcement tactics and trends, and communicating those tactics and trends as appropriate to the Advancing Immigrants’ Rights team, appropriate affiliate staff, other affiliates through the ACLU of California Immigrants’ Rights team, and the national ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. - Participating in strategic litigation and direct service representation as necessary or appropriate, consistent with priorities developed on the Advancing Immigrants’ Rights team and under the supervision of the Deputy Legal Director. - Providing technical support and strategic leadership and support to community partners, allies, stakeholders, and coalitions in the region, and building and nurturing relationships by participating in regular meetings with community leaders and members and pursuing shared advocacy goals with them. - Drafting content for “Know Your Rights” materials, op-eds, blog posts, and other media regarding immigrants’ rights, and participating in community outreach, education, and public speaking on issues impacting immigrant communities. - Supervising investigators, interns, or fellows as needed, and supporting summer intern hiring. Qualifications: - Commitment to racial justice and civil liberties principles. - Current attorney with proven litigation experience in state and federal court and familiarity with immigrants’ rights. Immigration court experience and experience working with incarcerated or vulnerable populations is a plus. - Excellent research, writing, analytic, interpersonal, communication, and time-management skills. - Patience, emotional intelligence, and cultural competency. - Ability to occasionally work evenings and weekends, and travel as needed inside or outside the U.S. - Demonstrated experience using advocacy, community engagement, and litigation as part of a creative response to civil rights violations in affected communities. - Relevant experience working on immigrants’ rights. - Flexible team player but also comfortable working independently and taking initiative. - Spanish language fluency is preferred. - Must be admitted to the California Bar. Cultural Competencies: - Demonstrated awareness of one’s own cultural identity, views about differences, and the ability to learn and build on varying cultural and community norms. - Complex understanding of racial justice and the urgency of confronting institutional racism and inequity. - Commitment to equity and inclusion as organizational practice and culture. - Proven track record of working across lines of race, immigration status, ethnicity, language, class, gender, and other identities and experiences, including record of arrest or conviction. - Courage and impeccable integrity. Physical Requirements: While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to exchange accurate information, detect/identify documents and the information contained in them, move between areas in and out of the office to complete their role. The employee may need to move various equipment including a computer to their work location. Travel Requirements: Must be able to travel for court hearings and conferences as needed. Compensation: - Salary range: $65,000 - $96,000. - Excellent benefits include |
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