Homeowner Defense Supervisor I

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : $92,500

About the Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) & CED Law

Our mission

We partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity. We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth. We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive.

Our Organization

The Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) is a Colorado-based nonprofit. Launched in 2020 as the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, our organization was formed to keep our neighbors housed during the pandemic. Working with clients, we built a deeply integrative approach to eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness prevention that centers the legal and financial needs of housing-insecure families and uses a variety of tools to keep them housed.

Our team now serves more than 1,000 people per month, bringing together housing lawyers, economists, data analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to serve our clients. We have served more than 50,000 low-income Coloradans across 45 counties, distributing over $200 million in emergency assistance. We have also contributed to the passage of major legislation to prevent eviction, stop economic abuse, and make credit and life-saving medication cheaper. CEDPs model has been cited as a best practice by the the White House and HUD in 2022-2023, think tanks like the Urban Institute, and in the media.

Building on our work to stop evictions, CEDP has further expanded its integrated services model to include disaster response, predatory towing, debt collection, benefit access & navigation, long-term rental assistance, and homelessness response. Similar to CEDPs work on rental housing, these efforts offer a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy.

More about the Homeowner Defense Supervisor I Role :

We are seeking an experienced Homeowner Defense Lawyer to oversee CED Laws Homeowner Defense Team. A successful candidate will have deep experience working in foreclosure defense and homeowner advocacy. The best-fit candidate for this role will have three or more years of experience in litigation, managing and developing programs, and administrative oversight.

To further ensure success, candidates are expected to lead in the advancement of the Homeowner Defense programs mission to provide training and support for the Homeowner Defense Team and community partners.

In this role you will :

• Lead all aspects of the Homeowner Defense Team in preserving homeownership through defensive litigation, servicing claims, and other actions to preserve homeownership
• Supervise paralegals in their work on public trustee foreclosure, judicial foreclosure, loan servicing violations, and other cases protecting homeownership
• Collaborate with the Director of Homeowner Legal Services and the Homeowner Affirmative Litigation Attorney on policy needs, case planning, and case strategy
• Coordinate with Homeowner Affirmative Attorneys on strategies regarding matters that have both a foreclosure defense case and an affirmative case.
• Set and complete case goals for individual attorneys and oversee homeowner defense attorney casework
• Review case-related documents developed by attorneys on the homeowner defense team and provide relevant feedback and guidance
• Create relevant training and professional development materials for partners, housing counselors, and paralegals working on foreclosure cases
• Manage a variable caseload, based on the size of the team and client need
• Oversee case reporting data for outcomes, case tracking, and other grant needs
• Coordinate across CEDP to ensure timely tracking and reporting of case completions
• Coordinate and assist with the preparation and presentation on homeowner and mobile homeowners rights to groups of clients, partners across the organization, and partner organizations across the state
• Complete required documentation for both case tracking and also personal management

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