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Brooklyn Legal Services (BLS) seeks a full-time Social Worker (MSW) for its Immigrants’ Rights and Advocacy Project (IRAP). IRAP’s legal-social work interdisciplinary team uses a holistic, trauma-informed collaborative advocacy model to provide free immigration legal services to low-income New Yorkers. IRAP’s work includes removal defense, affirmative and defensive asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (including family court), family-based petitions, naturalization, VAWA, U-non-immigrant status, T-nonimmigrant status, and more. While the IRAP Social Worker position is funded to provide case management for children involved in immigration removal proceedings, the Social Worker will provide supportive services to all clients as needed and feasible. The Social Worker will provide advocacy regarding housing, public benefits, and other related needs. The Social Worker will work directly with attorneys to help prepare and support legal cases. All staff social workers at LSNYC have access to up to 4 hours a month of clinical supervision through an independent consultant.
BLS is part of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) and provides high-quality, innovative representation to address the pressing legal needs of Brooklyn’s diverse low-income population. LSNYC’s mission is to fight poverty and seek racial, social, and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers. LSNYC is the largest civil legal services provider in the country. Our staff of over 600 people in neighborhood-based offices and outreach sites across all five boroughs helps more than 110,000 New Yorkers annually. BLS focuses on the problems that have the greatest impact on our clients — preserving affordable and decent housing, maintaining income support, redressing abusive lending and consumer practices, promoting family stability and mitigating the effects of domestic violence, advocating for the disabled, and working with immigrant clients to adjust, maintain, and defend their immigration status.
LSNYC prides itself on its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) efforts. As a social justice organization, we are committed to fighting for a workplace that is as diverse, equitable, and inclusive as possible for everyone. Our DEIB committee and numerous affinity groups work to foster collegial relationships among staff and allow staff to explore and advocate for racial justice and anti-oppression growth within our organization and through our legal work. All employees are expected to learn about, seek to understand, and work to realize our DEIB goals. LSNYC provides numerous opportunities for growth and professional development, including funding for continuing education (CE) hours.
Responsibilities
The Social Worker’s responsibilities include:
Qualifications
How to Apply
Interested individuals should email a resume, cover letter, and two writing samples to:
Bkhiring@lsnyc.org
Please write “IRAP Social Worker" in the subject line
Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No telephone calls, please.
BLS offers an excellent benefits package and a highly competitive public interest salary. We offer excellent benefits, including health, dental, and vision plans; contributions to a 403(b) plan; and generous leave time. Salary is commensurate with experience (determined by Collective Bargaining Agreement).
Brooklyn Legal Services is an equal opportunity employer: people of color; women; people with disabilities; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people; and people over the age of 40 are welcome and encouraged to apply. We are committed to race, gender, and economic justice in our work and within our workplace. Staff members who are not managers are members of the LSSA/NOLSW UAW Local 2320.
All employees/volunteers/interns are strongly encouraged to continue to receive and maintain up-to-date COVID vaccinations unless they are unable to for medical or religious reasons.
Job#37_2024; Posted 3.2024
Salary Range (Based on years’ experience):
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $62,805.00 - $120,073.00 per year
Benefits:
Schedule:
Ability to Relocate:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Brooklyn, NY 11201
Full Time
Business Services
$76k-91k (estimate)
04/14/2024
08/10/2024
legalservicesnyc.org
JAMAICA, NY
100 - 200
1968
DOREEN ODOM
<$5M
Business Services
Legal Services NYC fights poverty and seeks justice for low-income New Yorkers. For 50 years, we have challenged systemic injustice and helped clients meet basic needs for housing, income and economic security, family and immigration stability, education, and health care. LSNYC is the largest civil legal services provider in the country, with deep roots in all of the communities we serve. Our staff of more than 500 people in neighborhood-based offices and outreach sites across all five boroughs helps more than 100,000 New Yorkers annually. LSNYC addresses the underlying causes of our clients p...roblems through all forms of advocacy. We partner with scores of community-based organizations, elected officials, public agencies, pro bono lawyers, and the courts to maximize our effectiveness. Our work fights discrimination and helps to achieve equal opportunity and economic, social, and racial justice for all low-income New Yorkers. Support our work! Donate online at https://lsnyc.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/get-involved/giving-to-legal-services-nyc
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