As a member of the Immigration & Citizenship Program, you will join an incredibly talented and hardworking group of individuals dedicated to providing holistic immigration legal services to our immigrant neighbors. Reporting to the Manager of Citizenship Services, the Citizenship Coordinator will take on an exciting new project of providing robust follow up to individuals interested in becoming U.S. citizens. This role will help reach and empower more lawful permanent residents to apply for naturalization. This person will be responsible for primarily managing lists, communicating with lawful permanent residents, and triaging legal and social work needs to staff. This person should have significant interest and/or knowledge in immigrant issues. This role will require the person to become a DOJ Accredited Representative. This position will be housed at the program's Pasadena’s office.
Essential Functions:
- Manage list of lawful permanent residents using various tracking tools
- Communicate with lawful permanent residents interested in becoming U.S. citizens and provide ongoing follow up to Naturalization forum participants using Impactive
- Participate in Naturalization workshops and support with the event, including data collection and tracking of participants
- Triage legal and social work needs to staff
- Conduct client intakes and meet with prospective clients to answer questions and determine services needed
- Assist in the development of the organization’s strategy for connecting clients of a particular department to BakerRipley’ broader continuum of services
- Identify connection opportunities for specific program participants and help them leverage relevant services provided by BakerRipley and, as applicable, our partners
- Support with outreach efforts and doing presentations as needed
- This position will include training to apply for DOJ Accredited Representative status
Qualifications
- Significant knowledge of and/or interest in immigration issues
- Experience working with vulnerable populations and/or victims of trauma
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently and as a team player
- Detailed oriented and interest in administrative legal tasks
- Experience supporting legal cases either as a paralegal or a caseworker is a plus
- Bilingual Spanish speakers will be preferred
- Experience in case management preferred
Required
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2 - 3 years: related work experience
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)