Bilingual Legal Assistant- Workshops/Pro Bono

Bilingual Legal Assistant Workshop/Pro Bono

40 hours non-exempt

Starting hourly rate:$ 26.16

Hybrid work schedule

Position Description:

The Bilingual Legal Assistant – Workshops/Pro Bono will assist Hogar’s Pro Bono Coordinating Attorney, pro bono attorney volunteers, and Workshop Coordinator with the preparation of cases for submission to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), and/or the National Visa Center (NVC).

Position Responsibilities:

• Assist Hogar’s Workshop Coordinator with preparing naturalization and/or other immigration application forms

• Assist Hogar’s Pro Bono Coordinating Attorney and pro bono attorney volunteers with preparing family-based and/or humanitarian immigration application forms, and/or with preparing motions and other documents for court

• Data entry, photocopy files and paperwork

• Process incoming case-related correspondence for pro bono or workshop clients

• Contact clients to follow up on case matters, return phone calls to clients

• Maintenance of Hogar’s physical and electronic client files per agency policies

• Close client files per file closing procedures and draft client closing letters

• Trips to the post office and process, stamp, scan, and distribute incoming mail

• Attend day-long weekend( Saturday) group processing workshops approximately: 8-10 times a year

Other Duties:

• Assist with coordinating and managing volunteer translators, and complete document translations

• Interpret for client interviews at USCIS, as needed

• Assist with processing new client consultations scheduled through Hogar’s online scheduling and payment system – entering client information into Hogar’s online case management software, sending contracts and other forms for client signatures, creating client intake folders when necessary, and following up with clients before appointments as needed

• Assist Hogar’s Receptionist and Business Manager with answering and returning phone calls, filing, attending to walk-in clients, and taking client payments

• Provide referrals to clients for non-legal services

Qualifications & Skills:

• Competence in communicating and interacting with others of diverse cultural, geographic, and economic backgrounds in a professional and compassionate manner, including interacting with individuals experiencing substantial levels of emotional, physical, financial, or other hardship

• Organizational skills

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively to manage a substantial workload with deadline pressures

• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment

• Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Office 2007 or later

• Handle and maintain confidential information

• Regular access to a vehicle required for transportation to and from government agencies and workshop or other community events

• Other Duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

• Fluency in Spanish (speaking and writing) required

• Two or more years’ experience working in a law firm or nonprofit organization preferred

BENEFITS: Vacation, Sick, Paid FML*, 16 paid holidays in 2024, Medical, Dental, Vision, Pension, Employee Assistance Program, Diocesan Tuition Reimbursement* K-12 . Closed between Christmas and New Years. *

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.