Acacia Center for Justice is hiring a
Senior Program Associate Operations and Quality Assurance

Summary

The Senior Program Associate will join the Acacia Center for Justice team to manage and support legal service providers nationwide, providing legal services to unaccompanied children facing deportation proceedings. The role involves site visits, relationship management, operations planning, technical assistance, data analysis, reporting, and other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• A demonstrated knowledge of immigration, child welfare, criminal or juvenile justice, or other justice areas
• Strong writing, research, data analysis, communication, and facilitation skills
• Ability to manage work on multiple projects effectively and efficiently
• Willingness to adapt to change and ability to work collaboratively on a team, as well as to take the initiative and manage projects independently
• Willingness to travel periodically and ability to successfully balance travel responsibilities with office-based responsibilities
• Ability to read and communicate effectively in Spanish (proficiency in other languages is a plus)
• An uncompromising commitment to immigrants' rights and race equity
• JD degree or DOJ Accreditation
• At least four years of legal, government, or policy work experience (including internships)

Responsibilities

• Conduct site visits of each assigned legal service provider (remote or in person) and draft site visit evaluations
• Develop and maintain relationships with existing and new legal service providers by conducting monthly check-in calls, reviewing monthly narrative reports, and ad hoc communication
• Creatively brainstorm solutions to challenges experienced by legal service providers
• Maintain expertise about operations of assigned LSPs to ensure contract compliance and to troubleshoot impediments to high-quality legal services delivery
• Identify technical assistance needs of the network and collaborate with the Learning & Development team to create training resources that address these needs
• Participate in the planning and implementation of programmatic improvements to network operations aimed at ensuring network services sustainability
• Analyze and contextualize data and prepare reports to government partners on LSP service delivery, in collaboration with the Research, Evaluation, & Data Analytics team
• Analyze and contextualize LSP budgets and spending in collaboration with Budgets & Resource Management team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience representing detained immigrants and/or children is a strong plus
• Experience with 'know your rights' and other community education initiatives is a strong plus

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision- Some plans at $0 cost to the employee
• Employee Assistance Program
• 20 days per year of vacation time
• 12 days per year of sick time
• 5 personal days
• 4 organization-wide Wellness Days
• 11 observed holidays, including the last week of December
• $2000 Professional Development Stipend
• Home office set-up stipend
• Internet Stipend
• 401k with 5% employer contribution, no employee participation required
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Gym Reimbursement