Coordinator - Labor and Employment Practice Area

Labor and Employment Practice Area Coordinator

Position: Labor and Employment Practice Area Coordinator

Reports to: Labor and Employment Practice Area Supervising Attorney

Location: Hybrid position that can be based out of the Fresno, San Luis Obispo, or Oxnard office

Term of Employment: Full-Time

Other: Non-union position

About CRLA:

California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA) is an anti-poverty law firm dedicated to dismantling unjust systems through community lawyering in California’s historically rural areas. For over five decades, we have partnered with communities priced out of private legal representation to uphold civil rights in housing, employment, health, and public education. Building on a radical legacy rooted in the farmworker movement and the War on Poverty, CRLA continues to fight for the rights and prosperity of rural Californians through bold advocacy, systemic change, and a vision of thriving, empowered communities. CRLA’s community-led legal services activate community power to achieve justice, ensuring our clients and partners have the tools to dismantle poverty, discrimination, and systemic inequities.

Joining CRLA means becoming part of a team that honors dignity, fights for fairness, and embraces bold, community-led solutions to systemic injustices.

About the Labor and Employment Practice Area:

CRLA’s Labor and Employment Practice Area is a newly assembled team focusing on employment-related legal issues. Working in partnership with regional teams and community-based organizations, we advance worker justice in rural California by strengthening access to employment rights information and advocacy. The Labor and Employment Practice Area Coordinator will play a critical role in the team’s operation and development in collaboration with the practice area's Supervising Attorney.

Key Responsibilities:

Practice Area Administrative Support:

• Assist with team case reviews, case handling, and referrals.
• Coordinate with other CRLA teams to ensure accurate and updated external referrals, as well as internal case-transfer practices.
• Support and manage incoming and outgoing correspondence to the practice area.
• Monitor and maintain compliance with internal and external case intake and closure procedures.
• Maintain and review practice area resources and e-files.
• Manage the practice area general calendar.
• Monitor and assess strategies based on budget projections.
• Coordinate with external partners.

Grant Compliance:

• Track and monitor program outcomes.
• Assist with timely grant reporting in collaboration with CRLA’s Grants team.
• Monitor case management system data to ensure compliance with Legal Services Corporation and other funder requirements.
• Assist with grant applications.

Staff Oversight:

• Provide oversight of legal secretary teams, if available, including coordinating resources, mentoring, and training alongside the Supervising Attorney.
• Assist Supervising Attorneys with timekeeping reports.

Operational Support:

• Support the coordination of personnel, resources, and logistics for practice area events.
• Assist with management of outreach and event materials inventory.
• Work with CRLA Language Justice Initiative staff to coordinate language justice needs.
• Identify and support systemic advocacy initiatives and advancing community lawyering models across the state.
• Other duties as assigned.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:

California Rural Legal Assistance offers a diverse, family-friendly environment and compensation based on competitive public interest salaries; CRLA provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what is reasonably expected to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, the program’s budget availability, internal equity, and external market pay for comparable jobs. Generous benefits package includes 100% employer-covered medical, dental, vision, life, and short & long-term disability insurance for employees and up to 50%-75% for dependents coverage; and 401K retirement plan with CRLA contribution effective immediately. Generous paid leave policy includes 15 days of sick leave, 15 holidays each year, and vacation (accrue 15 days for the first year of service and 20 days after one year of service at CRLA).

APPLICATION:

California Rural Legal Assistance invites all applicants to include in their cover letter a statement about how your unique background and/or experiences might contribute to the diversity, cultural vitality, and perspective of our staff and legal services practice.

CRLA requires that all employees be Fully Vaccinated, defined as a CDC-approved COVID vaccination and one booster shot. This offer is contingent on meeting this requirement. The complete vaccination policy, including the process for reasonable allowable accommodations, is available for your review upon request.

CRLA thrives on our diversity, and we are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culturally diverse workplace and strongly encourage women, persons of color, LGBTQ individuals, veterans, persons with disabilities, and persons from other underrepresented groups to apply.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience serving low-income communities.
• Ability to sympathize or empathize with the client community.
• Ability to work independently and demonstrate initiative and leadership.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to interact constructively with diverse populations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Superior organizational skills, especially as demonstrated by the ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated experience in tracking and monitoring program outcomes.
• Experience supervising or training staff and volunteers.
• Computer and data analysis skills.
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a non-profit legal services environment.
• Bachelor of Arts Degree or equivalent.

Salary : $28 - $39