Community Outreach Coordinator

Benefits : Competitive salary

Dental insurance

Flexible schedule

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job Summary :

The Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland, Inc. (PBRC) is seeking a highly motivated, organized, and bright individual who is fluent in Spanish to support the Maryland Immigrant Legal Assistance Project (MILAP). MILAP gives free legal advice to people living in Maryland who must appear before the immigration court because they are at risk of deportation. In certain cases, MILAP steps-in to provide limited and concrete legal services to help vulnerable families and children meet the deadlines in their cases (e.g., help complete application for asylum or assist the family with changing their court location to one that is closest to where they live). The MILAP Community Outreach Coordinator’ focus is to increase awareness in the community about our services as well as awareness of resources available to those who are unable to connect with an attorney.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Serve as the first point of contact for the MILAP team, including service-seekers, community members, volunteers, and other stakeholders.
• Share referral information and resources with immigrants who contact PBRC seeking legal help.
• Communicate with service-seekers to assess eligibility for services and coordinate appointments.
• Manage MILAP’s events calendar.
• Assess language fluency of interested volunteers to confirm their ability to provide interpretation and translation services.
• Assist with recruitment efforts of interested volunteers, including attorneys, students, and others.
• Draft MILAP’s outreach and marketing communications using Outlook and Mailchimp.
• Monitor MILAP’s public facing webpage to ensure it remains up to date with information about volunteering opportunities and helpful community resources.
• Maintain MILAP’s outreach contact list - work with the team to develop a network of community partners.
• Schedule and Provide presentations to educators and other local community-based organizations about available, helpful community resources and important updates.
• Increase community awareness about relevant resources, including brief legal advice clinics, case placement services and relevant city and state programs and social service resources.
• Represent MILAP at various stakeholder meetings.
• Coordinate with other immigration legal service providers to receive information about their capacity to offer representation and share that information with the community.
• Track and summarize data related to this work.
• As needed, assist with our legal clinics in Baltimore City and Hyattsville to assist with registration, intake, obtain necessary client paperwork, manage flow of clients, direct immigrants to additional resources, interpret for volunteer attorneys, and other support.
• Develop and implement creative outreach strategies that will connect unrepresented immigrants in removal proceedings to available legal services and resources.
• Create outreach materials for volunteer recruitment and translate documents as needed.
• Provide support to Project Director for grant reporting duties as needed.

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TO APPLY :

PBRC’s mission is to champion equitable access to justice for Maryland's marginalized communities by providing legal help, pioneering collaboration with partners, and advocating for economic and social justice.

PBRC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity. We encourage all interested persons to apply including applicants of color, people with disabilities, and others historically underrepresented.

Flexible work from home options available.