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Department:
Washington College of Law
Time Type:
Full time
Work Modality:
Hybrid 02 (On Campus 2 days/Week)
Union:
Excluded
Job Description:
Summary:
The NIWAP Policy Analyst is a key member of the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP) team assisting with the implementation, evaluation, and improvement of NIWAP’s training, technical assistance, public policy advocacy and legal programs. The overarching goal of the work is to protect and expand the legal rights of and services open to immigrant women and children who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, child abuse and/or human trafficking. The NIWAP Director will supervise the Policy Analyst. The Policy Analysts’ work at NIWAP will include assisting the NIWAP Director and Assistant Director in involvement of students in NIWAP’s work.
Each semester and summer this will include approximately 10-12 students including J.D., LLM, undergraduate and graduate students involved as Dean’s Fellows, interns, and independent study students.
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Training: Assist in planning training workshops and conferences including Office on Violence Against Women and State Justice Institute sponsored virtual trainings including webinars, peer-to-peer events, community of practice sessions, question and answer events, in-person grantee conferences, other in-person trainings for judges, attorneys, victim advocates, law enforcement, prosecutors, forensic nurses, and other professionals who encounter immigrant survivors of crime and abuse in their work. Facilitate, coordinate, and lead outreach for one or more of NIWAP’s communities of practice for professionals (e.g., victim advocates, family law attorneys, law enforcement, prosecutors). Collaborate with judges, court staff, law enforcement, prosecutors, government agency staff, and with immigrant rights, women’s rights, violence against women, legal services, and welfare rights organizations, attorneys, and advocates to involve them in NIWAP projects (technical assistance, trainings, communities of practice, materials development, and advocacy). Contribute to the enhancement and improvement of NIWAP’s training initiatives, ensuring that trainings align with the latest legal developments and survivor needs. Develop and keep up to date training related web pages, post training materials, and lead materials distribution to trainees. Collect information, stories, questions, and needs attorneys, victim advocates, judges, police, prosecutors, forensic nurses, and others working in the field with immigrant women, children and survivors to support training, technical assistance, and public policy advocacy. Collect, track, and report data on training attendees, topics covered, and materials distributed for grant reporting, training outreach, and fundraising purposes. Supervise law students, LLM students and other interns.
- Technical Assistance: Coordinate technical assistance, orient Deans Fellows and students, and work with NIWAP Director, NIWAP’s Assistant Director, immigration expert consultants, judicial, law enforcement and prosecutor faculty consultants and Deans Fellows to respond to technical assistance requests. Assist staff with technical assistance by setting up calls, provide training materials and tools to callers, and conducting research needed to respond to questions from OVW grantees, judges, court staff, law enforcement, prosecutors, attorneys, advocates, forensic nurses, allied professionals and others working with immigrant survivors, women and children. Provide referrals of individual callers to, judges, police, prosecutors, advocates and attorneys to State and local resources using NIWAP’s directory and network of experts. Co-lead technical assistance outreach efforts to grow the numbers of professionals who turn to NIWAP for technical assistance on immigration, family law, public benefits, victim services, language access and other matters related to the needs of and best practices for serving immigrant survivors and children. Track technical assistance, distribution of post-training materials including through the NIWAP web-library.
- Public Policy Advocacy and Law Reform: Assist the NIWAP Director and the NIWAP Assistant Director in responding to technical assistance and policy assistance requests from Federal and State government agencies, Federal government agencies and staff, Congress, state legislators. Conduct legal and social science research related to NIWAP’s amicus briefs, recommendations for improvements in policies and regulations, and other policy advocacy work. Assist NIWAP in monitoring implementation of federal and state laws policies and practices that affect immigrant women, children and immigrant victims. Draft and update educational information and training tools on new laws, policies, and regulations to help judges, attorneys, victim advocates, police, prosecutors, forensic nurses, and other professionals use these to help the immigrant survivors.
- Legal and Social Science Research, Publications and Scholarship: Conduct legal and policy research, analyze key trends, and draft chapters and training materials on topics related to immigrant crime victims. This include legal research and writing of training manuals, tools, bench cards, public benefits charts, NIWAP’s on-line public benefits map, and other documents (both independently and through supervision on law/LLM and undergraduate students). Identify and add materials to NIWAP web library including government publications. Collaborate in conducting social science research, identify and use up-to-date social science research in NIWAP’s training curricula, training materials, infographics, brochures, and publications. Conduct, write, edit, and supervise law students on legal research and the development of training materials and other publications.
- Grant Management Timelines and Evaluation: Collaborate with the NIWAP team to drive the implementation and evaluation of our grants aimed at protecting the legal rights of survivors. Assist the Director and Assistant Director with grant management for NIWAP’s federal and foundation grants including grant-reporting, evaluation, timelines, and tracking deliverables. Leading tracking, updating and uploading publications in the NIWAP web library. Responsible tracking and running reports on technical assistance, training attendees, materials distribution, and web library usage in Airtable and leading intern training and supervision of Airtable and Accomplishments List work. This includes tracking training and technical assistance conducted by NIWAP consultant and faculty partners.
- Other Duties: Provide input and drafting to be included in grant proposals and grant reports. Collaborate with the Director regarding workload and progress weekly. Complete other duties as assigned.
Competencies:
- Serving Customers.
- Displaying Creativity.
- Prioritizing and Organizing.
- Acquiring and Analyzing Information.
- Supporting Coworkers.
Supervisory Responsibility:
- This position will supervise Dean’s Fellows and interns.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
- Full-Time, 35/ hours per week.
Salary Range:
- Commensurate with experience.
Travel Required:
- This position may include travel across the U.S. to assist in staffing trainings.
Required Education and Experience:
- Juris Doctor or equivalent.
- 1-3 years of relevant experience.
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects efficiently and effectively, staying in-touch with, and on top of, potential and/or active issues, monitoring progress and following up as required.
- Admission to the DC Bar or willingness to become a member of the DC Bar is required.
Preferred Education and Experience:
- Experience working with and supporting a web resource library preferred.
- Experience developing training materials for victim advocates, attorneys, and other professionals on immigrant survivor’s legal rights preferred.
- Experience with adult learning interactive teaching techniques preferred.
- Experience developing training materials for use by state government officials including judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement preferred.
- Proficiency speaking a second language preferred.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
- Applicants who are members of the bar in another state must be willing to apply for D.C. bar membership in the D.C. Bar within 90 days of being hired.
- Applicants who are awaiting bar results must be willing to apply for D.C. bar membership in the D.C. Bar within 90 days of being sworn into the bar of another state.
- Minimum of one (1) year of experience working on issues that impact immigrant victims of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, dating violence, and/or human trafficking, and/or with immigrant women or children.
- Minimum of one (1) year experience in immigrant survivors legal rights under immigration, family, domestic violence, language access, or public benefits laws.
- Knowledge and experience on the legal rights of immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, stalking, child abuse, dating violence).
- Strong ability to write and speak persuasively about immigrant survivors’ legal rights to lawyers and particularly to non-lawyer audiences and lawyers who are not immigration experts (e.g. victim advocates, law enforcement, family lawyers, judges).
- Interest and aptitude in project management methodologies to effectively organize and streamline initiatives.
- Proficiency in WordPress, Airtable, and other relevant software applications, with a keen interest in utilizing technology to enhance outreach, trainings, materials distribution, and program effectiveness.
- Ability to collaborate with law students, undergraduate student interns, and the NIWAP attorney and non-attorney staff on projects.
- Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and persuasion skills with the ability to collaborate at all levels of the organization (supervisor, interns, staff, and staff attorneys) and with allies across the country (inside and outside of government and across a range of professional and/or educational backgrounds).
- Ability to perform creative legal research and advocacy.
- Excellent legal research and blue booking skills.
- Proven commitment to feminism and immigrant rights.
- Proven commitment to collaborative cross-cultural work.
- Proven ability to work well with people in diverse settings.
- Proven ability to build relationships and trust.
- Proven ability to work as a team player and take direction from supervisor.
- Strong organization and prioritization skills.
- Strong computer skills (word, excel, power point, word press, Airtable).
- Ability to act with urgency and maintain professionalism and calm demeanor in sometimes difficult circumstances.
- Ability to teach, mentor, supervise, and delegate work to law students and undergraduate interns an advantage.
- Ability to perform and analyze social science research an advantage.
Funding:
This one-year position is fully supported by funding already received from federal grants and donations. The position may be extended beyond one year depending on funding and performance.
Benefits
AU offers a competitive benefits package including a 200% matching retirement plan, tuition benefits for full-time staff and their families, several leadership development certificates, and has been recognized by the American Heart Association as a fit-friendly worksite. Click here to learn about American University's unique benefit options.
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