Program Manager

Job Description:

Engage with prospective and retained clients, build trust with clients, and provide client support throughout the lifespan of the litigation. Interview clients in a client-centered and trauma-informed fashion and prepare summaries of their statements. Research and analyze statutes, regulations, legal articles, judicial decisions, and other legal sources; provide written analysis to attorneys. Prepare client communications and other litigation support documents, such as plaintiff profiles and outreach email templates; notes from calls with co-counsel or clients; summaries of evidence; and spreadsheets to organize and track information. Evaluate and optimize workflows to support JAC's impact litigation and the collaboration between JAC's legal and communications departments. Provide support for JAC’s class action litigation, including developing workflows for communicating with a certified class of upward of a million class members in multiple languages through e-mail, social media, and a dedicated website. Create, maintain and optimize database of judges. Decode legal cases to post on the litigation tracker. Provide input on updates and improvements to the microsite structure. Audit the current process for content creation/approval/distribution between the legal and comms teams around the microsite and newsletter and identify any areas for improvement. Serve as a liaison between the legal and comms department on suggested improvements and updates. Integrate and manage the litigation tracker newsletter into the editorial calendar. Track relevant court cases, review updates, determine which ones are relevant and provide updates to stakeholders. Provide input on designing and optimizing systems for structuring the database. Identify areas of improvement for making all data as accessible and searchable as possible for use. Provide suggestions for any additional data points to collect. Provide sources for additional stories as they arise through working with clients. Network and establish relationships with organizations that work in the immigration space. Participate in coalition calls and in-person meetings as a representative of JAC. Share information learned with internal JAC stakeholders. Host meetings and events on behalf of JAC as needed. Position is fixed location based in Los Angeles, CA office; however, telecommuting from a home office may also be allowed. 10% domestic travel for work-related events.

 

Job Requirements:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Public Policy, Public Administration or a directly related field plus one (1) year of experience as a Program Analyst, or in a similar role working with U.S. immigration. Experience must include:

 

Must have one year of experience in the following (experience may be gained concurrently):

-       Working as a Program Analyst with U.S. immigration.

-       Working with immigration databases and statistics.

-       Working with immigration data science or database management.

-       Working with or in support of immigrant communities.

 

40 hours/week, 9:00am-5:00pm, Salary: $90,000.00 - $95,000.00/year.

 

To Apply: Send resumes to careers@justiceactioncenter.org. Req # 9231793.