Director, Training & Technical Assistance
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Job Description
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



















