Legal Services NYC is hiring a
Deputy Director (General Practice) in United States

Summary

The job is for a Deputy Director (General Practice), Grants & Contracts at Legal Services NYC, a large civil legal services provider in New York City. The role involves managing grants duties related to various areas such as general civil legal services funding, foreclosure, immigration, employment law, public benefits and disability, and veterans. The position is based in Manhattan and requires 3-5 years of experience in grants and contracts management.

Requirements

• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in grants and contracts management is preferred
• Familiarity with NYC, NYS, and federal grants supporting the provision of civil legal services preferred
• Significant experience in developing systems for data collection, compliance monitoring, benchmarking and program reporting
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong oral and written communication/editing skills
• Strong abilities in Windows, Microsoft Word and Excel, including the creation of hyperlinks, pivot tables, v-look ups, and data visualization
• An ability to work collaboratively within a high paced multidisciplinary environment (borough legal managers and grant managers, directors of administration, supervising and staff attorneys, and intake staff, etc.) with many competing priorities
• An ability to manage multiple priorities, work under tight deadlines and exercise good judgment when supporting the borough offices’ grant management and reporting needs
• A strong attention to detail in all facets of the work
• Commitment to social justice and DEIB and interest and experience working with and supporting diverse, low-income communities

Responsibilities

• Partnering with the Director of Grants & Contracts, oversee all aspects of the LSNYC’s citywide general civil legal assistance grants—IOLA, OCA, and LSC, among others
• Supervise the grants specialist who handles quarterly IOLA reporting and other general civil legal services reporting tasks
• Run custom statistical reports for annual IOLA, OCA and LSC reports and coordinate requests to the boroughs and LSU staff for narrative information for annual narrative reports
• Supervise the grants specialist who handles foreclosure reporting clean-up, reporting, and benchmarking
• Liaise with foreclosure funders and borough supervisors and grants staff
• Supervise the grants specialist who handles immigration reporting clean-up, reporting, and benchmarking
• Liaise with immigration funders and work closely with the citywide immigration director, borough immigration supervisors and grants staff
• Prepare bi-annual City Council Finance Reports and participate in the City Council Discretionary Funding application process
• Co-manage contract development with the Director of Grants & Contracts
• Supervise the grants specialist who handles employment reporting clean-up, reporting, and benchmarking
• Liaise with employment law funders and borough employment law supervisors and grants staff
• Co-manage contract development with the Director of Grants & Contracts
• Supervise the NEW grants specialist who will handle public benefits & disability grant data clean-up, reporting, and benchmarking
• Liaise with public benefits funders, contractors & subcontractors, borough supervisors (including both public benefits/disability supervisors and the Citywide Housing Director & Deputy Director who oversee a housing-related public benefits contract) and grants staff
• Co-manage contract development with the Director of Grants & Contracts
• Supervise the NEW grants specialist who will handle veterans grant data clean-up, reporting, and benchmarking
• Liaise with veterans’ funders, contractors & subcontractors, borough supervisors and grants staff. Prepare bi-annual City Council Finance Narrative Reports and participate in the City Council Discretionary Funding application process
• Co-manage contract development with the Director of Grants & Contracts