Description:
Position Summary:A Non-Profit Organization in Washington, DC, United States seeks a Regional Director to oversee A Non-Profit Organization in Washington, DC, United States U.S. field offices, ensuring excellent and consistent legal services operations nationwide and playing a critical role in A Non-Profit Organization in Washington, DC, United States mission of ensuring that unaccompanied children have high-quality legal representation and assistance.
This is a remote position based from any location in the U.S.
Essential Functions:
- Works closely with legal programs leadership to develop and implement priorities, guidelines, and procedures in support of KIND's legal services program nationwide including pro bono facilitation and direct legal services.
- Assists in the specific performance management of KIND's field offices, including tracking metrics and program deliverables, and collaborating with other program leaders to enhance and maintain the overall effectiveness of the legal services program nationwide, ensuring consistency in the implementation of policies and practices across KIND's field offices.
- Provides robust supervision and exceptional mentoring to the leaders of KIND's field offices through creative and thoughtful leadership; and effectively monitor the performance and professional development of direct reports, including individual performance management and communications, and ensure effective alignment with KIND management's goals and priorities.
- Provides specific programmatic support in KIND's work funded through federal, state, local and other funders.
- Ensures all department staff in the field offices are provided with robust supervision and mentoring to equip them to work effectively in providing direct representation or mentoring and training of pro bono attorneys.
- Supports KIND's efforts to maintain and increase funding sources including participating in proposals and reporting.
- Helps manage programming changes, including potential new programming, and growth and/or winddown of programming or field offices, as needed
- Plays leadership role in working collaboratively and effectively intra-component within Programs Department, and inter-component with other components, including Human Resources, Technology Strategies, Office Operations, Communications, and Policy.
- Serves as a key partner to KIND's leadership in helping to foster a culture of respect and appreciation for the diverse contributions of others within the organization and for the institution and the mission; model informed and constructive communication; effective and honest partnership wherein the feedback is valued and constructively and regularly given and received; and actively contributes to a safe environment where ideas, innovation, and dissent are respected and consistently shared and where productive conflict is valued as an opportunity for strengthening collaboration and advancing the mission.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Licensed U.S. attorney in good standing.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in the immigration field, preferably including representation of immigrant children.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience supervising and managing legal staff, preferably in diffuse locations.
- Experience in program management, overseeing performance and deliverables.
- Facility with case management database systems, running reports, and case data analytics.
- Experience working with a law firm and corporate counsel preferred.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Passion for the plight of unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children, and the enthusiasm and skills to communicate that passion to potential partners and other organizations.
- Ability to travel periodically throughout the year and as assigned.
- Ability to work within an office environment and have regular interaction via phone, video conference, and email.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (such as Teams, Excel, etc.)
- Ability to work collaboratively and multi-task in our KIND environment, managing numerous priorities and emerging opportunities.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to work on multiple projects in a deadline-oriented environment; ability to prioritize tasks and delegate as appropriate.
- Ability to work effectively with people of diverse backgrounds, lived experiences, and communication styles.
- Demonstrate discipline and adaptability to effectively deliver on our core mission of ensuring access to justice and safeguarding children's well-being and rights.
- Ability to multitask and work with a sense of urgency in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Committed to practicing and supporting wellbeing and a work-home life balance.
- Experience working and communicating in a remote environment preferred but not required.