Temporary: Administrative Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights invites applications for the position of Temporary Administrative Assistant (5-12 hours per week). The Administrative Assistant will provide administrative support to our litigation and policy teams. The ideal candidate is highly organized, efficient, and comfortable managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced legal environment. This role involves routine administrative duties and substantive work to support our policy and litigation programs.

ABOUT THE YOUNG CENTER

The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights is a national organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights and best interests—safety and well-being—of immigrant children in the United States. The Young Center’s Child Advocate Program (CAP) serves as the federally-appointed bests interests representative for unaccompanied and separated immigrant children in federal custody. Through CAP’s state initiative, we also serve and are appointed by the Superior Courts of New Jersey as independent Child Advocates to children released from federal custody into the New Jersey community. Child Advocates meet with children and learn their stories in order to identify and advocate for their best interests through an interdisciplinary, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive lens. The Young Center’s Policy Program fights for wholesale reform of the immigration system while pursuing immediate changes in policy and practice that center children’s rights and best interests in all decisions. The Technical Assistance Program, the Young Center’s newest program, offers intersectional expertise and critical resources to advocates and service providers working with immigrant children involved in child welfare and other state court systems.

The Young Center has offices in Houston, San Antonio, and Harlingen, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Washington, D.C.; Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles, California; and Grand Rapids, Michigan. We also serve children through our programs in New Jersey.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform weekly docket checks and track filing and other deadlines.
• Download, rename, and organize documents
• Maintain and update data reports, including weekly ORR (Office of Refugee Resettlement) counts.
• Credit card reconciliation.
• Generate regular budget and other data reports
• Proofread legal and administrative documents for accuracy and formatting,
• Schedule and coordinate meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist attorneys with case preparation and documentation as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of administrative support
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
  
  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience—lived, volunteer, or professional—with immigration matters
• Familiarity with federal court systems and docketing

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Physical demands include regular attendance, keyboarding, sitting for long periods (at least 5 hours a day), and driving. Ability to use computer, telephone, and copy machine. Ability to travel by plane, car and other conveyances within U.S. Occasional lifting for event setup/preparation.

APPLICATION DETAILS

The Young Center is an "at-will" and equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in and affirmatively factors diversity into its hiring practices. Young Center encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, ancestry, marital or parental status, pregnancy, citizenship, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, genetic information, or veterans’ status. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process; no applicant will be penalized for requesting an accommodation. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.

Review of candidates will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please apply on the Young Center website. Only complete applications will be considered.

To learn more about the Young Center’s work, please visit

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