Overview
Immigrant Justice Fellow Jobs in Charlottesville, USA at Center for Nonprofit Excellence
Salary Range & Benefits:
Salary and benefits depend on the terms of the fellowship.
The Legal Aid Justice Center is a nationally recognized, non‑profit organization that partners with low‑income clients and communities of color in Virginia to fight for racial, social, and economic justice. We understand that the harms our clients endure are inextricably linked to overarching systems of injustice. Together we are dismantling those systems through a combination of community organizing, litigation, policy advocacy, public relations, and individual legal services.
Founded in 1967, LAJC has offices in Charlottesville, Richmond, Petersburg, and Falls Church and provides services under six key program areas:
Civil Rights & Racial Justice (focuses on the criminal legal system), Housing & Consumer Justice, Youth Justice, Health Justice & Public Benefits, Immigrant Justice, and Worker Justice. As examples of LAJC’s recent work, our lawsuit and organizing against the state forced reform of Virginia’s unemployment insurance system, including advocacy that resulted in the distribution of over $1 billion in illegally withheld payments to over 160,000 Virginians.
During the pandemic, we demanded and secured a statewide eviction moratorium and emergency pandemic protections that helped hundreds of families avoid eviction. We reduced incarceration across the state, including reducing the population of a local immigration detention center down to historically low levels through a coordinated effort of organizing paired with impact and individual litigation. Our staff are on the front lines of some of the most important anti‑poverty fights happening today.
With a staff of over 90, the past few years have been a time of exciting growth and opportunity for the organization. In addition to the growth of programmatic efforts including increased organizing capacity, LAJC has expanded its operations and administrative capacity, created new opportunities for professional growth and leadership among staff, engaged in ongoing race equity work, and explored changes to organizational structure to deepen its efforts to create long‑term, sustainable, community‑driven change.
LAJC is seeking to host one recent law graduate as a public service fellow with the Immigrant Justice Program in our Charlottesville, Virginia office. Fellowship candidates must be rising third‑year law students, third‑year law students, or recent law school graduates, with a demonstrated record of public service and a willingness to apply for public interest legal fellowships. This position depends on the candidate obtaining fellowship funding from a private funding entity in partnership with LAJC.
In addition to serving clients with their legal needs, past fellows have had the opportunity to assist with clinical supervision, staff high‑impact cases with nationwide implications, engage in movement lawyering and community organizing, and participate in legislative and other policy advocacy.
While LAJC hopes to hire fellows into full‑time positions after the fellowship and is committed to supporting their long‑term growth within the organization, continued employment cannot be guaranteed and will depend on organizational budget and staffin‑needs at the time the fellowship concludes.
Applicants should view this position as a four‑part process:
First, selected applicants will be offered an interview with a small team of LAJC staff. The interview will be roughly 1‑hour and will focus primarily on the logistics of the proposal.
Second, after all applicants are interviewed, selected applicants will work with LAJC to develop their fellowship application materials, usually requiring the applicant to describe the work they aim to undertake at LAJC through the fellowship. This phase of the process is an ongoing conversation between the applicant and members of LAJC’s leadership team wherein the applicant describes the structure and mechanics for their proposed work, receives feedback from LAJC based on its needs and the dynamics of the issue(s) the work aims to address.
Third, upon reaching consensus as to the project proposal, the applicant with LAJC support, will…
Title: Immigrant Justice Fellow
Company: Center for Nonprofit Excellence
Location: Charlottesville, USA
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