Director, Training & Technical Assistance

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Director leading CLINIC’s immigration legal-services training and technical assistance programs. Managing staff, grants, budgets, affiliate support, and strategic organizational initiatives.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide strategic, programmatic, and people leadership for CLINIC's training, affiliate technical assistance, and support work
  • Lead and manage a team of immigration legal professionals
  • Translate organizational priorities, affiliate and network needs, grant commitments, and emerging issues into plans, ownership, timelines, deliverables, and measurable results
  • Lead annual TTA planning aligned with organizational priorities, affiliate needs, grant commitments, and the strategic plan
  • Supervise, coach, develop, and hold staff accountable
  • Manage TTA's operational plan and budget, including performance, spending, staffing capacity, sustainability, and continuity
  • Oversee identification of training and technical assistance needs
  • Set strategic direction and annual priorities for trainings
  • Oversee development, review, updating, and quality control of immigration law and program-management training materials and resources
  • Direct legal and program-management technical assistance to CLINIC affiliates
  • Establish and monitor coverage, assignment, escalation, referral, and quality-assurance systems
  • Conduct trainings, facilitate sessions, and provide technical assistance when appropriate
  • Lead programmatic implementation of TTA grants and monitor workplans, deliverables, metrics, budgets, timelines, and outcomes
  • Participate in grant development and renewal
  • Monitor grant and project performance and take corrective action or escalate concerns
  • Ensure timely programmatic grant reporting and documentation
  • Identify cross-sectional dependencies and coordinate shared projects and initiatives
  • Collaborate with Communications to promote trainings, resources, and technical assistance
  • Prepare reports, publications, presentations, board or management materials, and organizational communications
  • Represent CLINIC as a public speaker and facilitator at trainings, conferences, meetings, media opportunities, and external engagements
  • Report significant grant accomplishments, risks, deliverables, capacity concerns, and decisions to the Chief Program Officer

Requirements:

  • Juris Doctor degree or current/former Department of Justice (DOJ) accreditation
  • At least ten years’ experience in nonprofit immigration legal services
  • At least five years of management, supervisory, and/or program leadership experience in the nonprofit immigration legal services sector
  • Demonstrated ability to translate broad organizational goals and complex ideas into priorities, actionable plans, clear ownership, timelines, and measurable results
  • Strong knowledge of immigration legal services and the operational and program-management needs of nonprofit immigration programs
  • Demonstrated experience supervising and developing highly skilled professional staff
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex projects and grant-funded programs, including workplans, deliverables, metrics, reporting, budgets, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies
  • Excellent public speaking, training, facilitation, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity and change
  • Demonstrated ability to lead collaboratively across teams and sections
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality in personnel, organizational, legal, and policy matters
  • Ability to travel occasionally
  • Knowledge of and support for CLINIC's mission, vision, values, policies, procedures, confidentiality standards, and code of ethical behavior
  • Resume and cover letter required

Benefits:

  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
  • Equal employment opportunity and diversity commitment
  • Occasional travel for trainings, meetings, conferences, and other organizational needs