What are the responsibilities and job description for the Domestic Violence Victims' Rights Staff Attorney position at The Bar Assoc of San Francisco?
Join an organization dedicated to improving our community through programs that provide equal access to legal services. The Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic (CROC) (a fiscally sponsored project of the Justice & Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco) currently has an opportunity for a Domestic Violence Victims’ Rights Staff Attorney to join our team.
About CROC:
CROC empowers domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking survivors in San Francisco to understand their legal rights and options, and we provide free legal services to help survivors enforce and protect those rights. CROC operates as a collaborative supported by four member agencies: Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach; Bay Area Legal Aid; the Justice & Diversity Center of The Bar Association of San Francisco; and W.O.M.A.N., Inc. Our office is located in the Inner Mission District of San Francisco.
About the Job:
The Domestic Violence Victims’ Rights Staff Attorney will work as part of CROC’s Marsy Project to provide trauma-informed holistic legal assistance and representation to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking. This includes the following:
- Interviewing domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking survivors and victims to complete restraining order applications
- Representing clients in domestic violence restraining order proceedings
- Assisting victims in all stages of the criminal process that impact their safety and privacy, including investigations, charging, criminal proceedings, and sentencings
- Representing victims in criminal hearings in San Francisco Superior Court
- Providing advocacy in probation and parole hearings and revocation matters
- Conducting outreach and participating in regional coalitions and advocacy groups
- Engaging with systems partners, including the San Francisco Police Department, San Francisco District Attorneys’ Office, the Victim Services Division of the San Francisco DA’s Office, and the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department
- Delivering workshops and training to community members and organizations
- Preparing timely and accurate reports for funders
- Collaborating across CROC’s programs to provide holistic, effective, wrap-around support to survivors
In-Person Work Schedule:
This is a predominantly in-person position. Court representation is a core and essential function of this role; the Domestic Violence Victims’ Rights Staff Attorney must be available and prepared to make frequent, in-person appearances in San Francisco Superior Court, and should expect to appear in court regularly throughout the week. While limited remote work may occasionally be possible depending on project needs and with supervisor’s approval, in-person court availability is expected.
Education and Experience:
- Licensed member of the California State Bar in good standing
- At least 2 years of legal experience in a victim service, family law, or other similar setting focused on responding to the practical and legal issues encountered by sexual assault or domestic violence survivors
Qualifications:
- Strong preference for bilingual Spanish language fluency
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills to communicate with a broad range of people including survivors, other attorneys, judges and court staff, law enforcement, and community partner nonprofits
- Highly organized, self-motivated, and able to work both independently and collaboratively with a team
- Proficiency with standard office software and computing, and the ability to learn and adapt to new systems
Why Work For Us:
We offer a collaborative, mission-driven work environment where your work directly advances survivors’ rights and well-being. CROC is grounded in a deep commitment to empowering survivors from all communities, and we are proud to support staff who share that commitment.
We offer:
Starting salary $80,000 - 88,000/year.
A generous benefits package, including multiple medical, dental and vision insurance plans; pretax commuter, FSA; employer paid LTD and Life Insurance; 401k, profit-sharing; and more.
To find out more about CROC, please visit our website at www.roclinic.org; to find out more about CROC’s fiscal sponsor, the Justice & Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco, please visit www.sfbar.org.
To Apply:
Please submit: Resume, Cover Letter including response to application prompt below (no page limit), and (3) References to resumes@roclinic.org Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
In your cover letter, please address the following:
How do you think your background or experiences have prepared you to: (1) serve our diverse client base effectively, (2) work effectively with colleagues from different backgrounds, and (3) acknowledge the systemic barriers that our clients face? Feel free to think broadly about your response to this question, provide examples, and draw on various aspects of your personal, professional, and lived experiences.
Application Prompt
Many of CROC’s clients are low- and very low-income members of our communities. They include people of color, LGBTQ people, immigrants, seniors, people with lived experiences of homelessness, people with disabilities, and people from other under-represented groups. CROC is committed to enhancing the provision of our services to all clients and creating an inclusive and respectful workplace in which differences are acknowledged and valued. CROC promotes and supports policies that enable us to work effectively in cross-cultural situations with our clients, coworkers, and the community
Equal Opportunity Employer
CROC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We conduct all employment-related activities without regard to race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by applicable Local, State or Federal employment discrimination laws.
Salary : $80,000 - $88,000