Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) fights poverty and seeks racial, social and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers. For over 50 years, we have challenged systemic injustices that trap people in poverty and provided legal services that help our clients meet basic needs for housing, income and economic security, family and immigration stability, education, and health care.

LSNYC is the largest civil legal services provider in the country; our staff of more than 600 people in neighborhood-based offices and outreach sites across all five boroughs helps hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers annually. We partner with scores of community-based and client-run organizations, elected officials, public agencies, pro bono lawyers, and the courts to maximize our effectiveness. Our work fights discrimination and helps to achieve equity for all low-income New Yorkers.

LSNYC employees have numerous opportunities for growth and professional development, including access to our internal Justice Learning Center, which provides opportunities to earn free CLEs and gain experience as a trainer. Further, LSNYC prides itself on its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) efforts and aims to create a work environment where everyone can bring their full selves to the work.

All non-managerial staff at LSNYC are part of one union and enjoy a generous benefits and compensation package, including exceptional healthcare, dental insurance, a vision plan, 21 vacation days per year (increasing to 28 days after the first year), 18 sick days per year, and a Loan Repayment Assistance Program. LSNYC staff can work remotely up to 50% of the time, job duties permitting.

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Deputy Director (General Practice), Grants & Contracts

Reporting to the Director of Grants & Contract Management, Central Office

Our Organization:

Legal Services NYC fights poverty and seeks racial, social, and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers. For more than 50 years, we have challenged systemic injustices that keep people in poverty and provided legal services that help our clients meet basic needs for housing, income, economic security, family and immigration stability, education, and health care. LSNYC is the largest civil legal services provider in the country; our staff of almost 700 people in neighborhood-based offices and outreach sites across all five boroughs helps over 100,000 New Yorkers annually. We partner with scores of community-based and client-run organizations, elected officials, law schools, public agencies, pro bono lawyers, and the courts to maximize our effectiveness. Our work fights discrimination and helps to achieve equity for low-income New Yorkers.

The Opportunity:

LSNYC seeks a Deputy Director (General Practice) for our Citywide Grants & Contracts Unit at the Central Office to manage grants duties related to a discrete portfolio of non-housing citywide and/or multi-borough grants and contracts, including the following: 1) General Civil Legal Services Funding (IOLA, OCA, and LSC, etc.); 2) Foreclosure; 3) Immigration; 4) Employment Law; 5) Public Benefits and Disability; and 6) Veterans. The Deputy Director (General Practice) will be located at the LSNYC Central Office in Manhattan and will report to the LSNYC Director of Grants and Contract Management. The Deputy Director (General Practice) will directly supervise 2 grants specialists—one focusing on general civil funding, foreclosure, immigration and employment and the second (the Benefits & Veterans Grant Specialist) focusing on public benefits, disability and veterans’ grants. The latter position is a NEW position and will be primarily supervised by the Deputy Director (General Practice) but also partially supervised by the Deputy Director (Housing). The Deputy Director (General Practice) will also work closely with the Citywide Housing Director & Deputy Director, Borough Supervisors, and Borough Grant Managers and Specialists. The Deputy Director (General Practice) may be expected to travel to various borough offices, city agencies, and funder offices for grants and contracts management-related duties. Along with the Deputy Director (Housing) in Central Grants, the Deputy Director (General Practice) in Central Grants will serve as one of the two administrators in charge of the Central Grants & Contracts team in the absence of the Director of Grants & Contracts.

Job Responsibilities include:

The Deputy Director (General Practice’s) job responsibilities will include the following substantive areas:

1) General Civil Legal Services Funding: Partnering with the Director of Grants & Contracts, oversee all aspects of the LSNYC’s citywide general civil legal assistance grants—IOLA, OCA, and LSC, among others. Supervise the grants specialist who handles quarterly IOLA reporting and other general civil legal services reporting tasks. Run custom statistical reports for annual IOLA, OCA and LSC reports and coordinate requests to the boroughs and LSU staff for narrative information for annual narrative reports.

2) Foreclosure: Supervise the grants specialist who handles foreclosure reporting clean-up, reporting, and benchmarking. Liaise with foreclosure funders and borough supervisors and grants staff.

3) Immigration: Supervise the grants specialist who handles immigration reporting clean-up, reporting, and benchmarking. Liaise with immigration funders and work closely with the citywide immigration director, borough immigration supervisors and grants staff. Prepare bi-annual City Council Finance Reports and participate in the City Council Discretionary Funding application process. Co-manage contract development with the Director of Grants & Contracts.

4) Employment: Supervise the grants specialist who handles employment reporting clean-up, reporting, and benchmarking. Liaise with employment law funders and borough employment law supervisors and grants staff. Co-manage contract development with the Director of Grants & Contracts.

5) Public Benefits and Disability: Supervise the NEW grants specialist who will handle public benefits & disability grant data clean-up, reporting, and benchmarking. Liaise with public benefits funders, contractors & subcontractors, borough supervisors (including both public benefits/disability supervisors and the Citywide Housing Director & Deputy Director who oversee a housing-related public benefits contract) and grants staff. Co-manage contract development with the Director of Grants & Contracts.

6) Veterans: Supervise the NEW grants specialist who will handle veterans grant data clean-up, reporting, and benchmarking. Liaise with veterans’ funders, contractors & subcontractors, borough supervisors and grants staff. Prepare bi-annual City Council Finance Narrative Reports and participate in the City Council Discretionary Funding application process. Co-manage contract development with the Director of Grants & Contracts.

7) And other related grants duties, including audit supervision, as time permits, assigned by the Director of Grants & Contract Management.

The Deputy Director (General Practice) will work a hybrid schedule (half-remote and half in the office). We seek a candidate with good judgment and strong technical and communication skills. In addition, the successful candidate must have good problem-solving skills and a demonstrated initiative and capacity to complete self-directed tasks and the skills to work with and lead diverse teams. Finally, we seek someone who can both see the big picture and focus on the small details related to grants & contracts management.

Requirements include:

• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in grants and contracts management is preferred. Familiarity with NYC, NYS, and federal grants supporting the provision of civil legal services preferred;

• Significant experience in developing systems for data collection, compliance monitoring, benchmarking and program reporting; • Significant technical knowledge of and experience with computerized case management systems, including but not limited to, the customization of case management systems, the running of reports, and an ability to extract data to answer questions posed by funders and/or management;

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;

• Strong oral and written communication/editing skills.

• Strong abilities in Windows, Microsoft Word and Excel, including the creation of hyperlinks, pivot tables, v-look ups, and data visualization;

• An ability to work collaboratively within a high paced multidisciplinary environment (borough legal managers and grant managers, directors of administration, supervising and staff attorneys, and intake staff, etc.) with many competing priorities;

• An ability to manage multiple priorities, work under tight deadlines and exercise good judgment when supporting the borough offices’ grant management and reporting needs; and • A strong attention to detail in all facets of the work, In addition, we seek a candidate with a:

• Commitment to social justice and DEIB and interest and experience working with and supporting diverse, low-income communities. Interested individuals should submit an application (resume, cover letter and writing sample) through the online Greenhouse platform accessible through this link: https://boards.greenhouse.io/legalservicesnyc/jobs/4363928006

Please write “Deputy Director (General Practice), Grants & Contracts” in subject line. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No telephone calls. Additional information about the practice may be found on our website, www.legalservicesnyc.org.

Legal Services NYC is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, people with disabilities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, and people over the age of 40 are strongly encouraged to apply. All employees are strongly encouraged to continue to receive and maintain up-to-date COVID vaccinations unless they are unable to for medical or religious reason.

Job#47_2024; Posted: 05.2024 Salary Range (Based on years of experience): $102,584 - $152,736

Legal Services NYC is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, people with disabilities, people over 40, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people are strongly encouraged to apply.

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