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Salary: At least USD $85,000 / year

Organization Overview:

For over 35 years, the Legal Clinic for the Disabled (LCD) has worked to empower low-income people with disabilities and the deaf and hard of hearing in the Philadelphia region by providing free legal representation to overcome legal obstacles that would otherwise affect clients’ independence, health, or quality of life. LCD is headquartered in Center City, and our practice areas include family, housing, planning documents, public benefits, and social security law. Through LCD’s Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative, staff work directly with medical partners at multiple sites across Philadelphia, and through our Housing Initiative, LCD actively participates in the Philadelphia Eviction Prevention Project. Additionally, we conduct general telephone intake and hold Community Legal Outreach Clinics. Last year alone, LCD served over 1,900 clients and more than 2,000 additional household members, furthering our mission to foster inclusion, independence, and justice for all.

Position Overview:

The Legal Director reports to the Executive Director (ED) and is responsible for working with the ED to provide leadership to ensure that LCD achieves its overall mission and annual objectives. The Legal Director leads, manages, and supports legal personnel who provide direct client representation and serves as lead counsel or co-counsel in major litigation. The Legal Director also oversees the development and dissemination of legal information (e.g., cases, statutes, and regulations) to provide support to the legal team and assure staff knowledge remains up to date.

Responsibilities:

Leadership:

• Participates in the agency management team and functions as Acting ED when the ED is absent or otherwise unavailable
• Participates in annual development of LCD’s areas of work
• With the ED, establishes program benchmarks and recommends improvements; develops standards for reporting, accountability, and measuring success; and makes program development recommendations to the ED
• Participates in planning and applying for LCD fund diversification, including grant writing and review

Legal Team Management:

• Day-to-day leadership and oversight of the agency’s legal work and legal team members;
• Leadership and oversight of the agency’s advocacy work
• Participates in regularly scheduled meetings with all legal team members
• Engages in legal work on behalf of clients and maintains a personal case load
• Establishes procedures for each step of LCD’s direct services of clients beginning with intake, determining which cases LCD will take based on resources, and the distribution of cases to staff
• In conjunction with the Supervising Attorney, oversees MLP operations at each site, including referral forms and processes, provider trainings, and staffing
• Supervision of attorney case work and court appearances when the Supervising Attorney is otherwise unavailable
• Works with staff to establish annual goals/expectations and conducts 6-month check-ins with staff regarding goals/expectations
• Works with the ED to recruit and hire legal team members
• Oversees orientation and training of new legal team members
• Files impact litigation
• Identifies experienced practitioners to provide mentoring for staff attorneys in new practice areas and other counties
• Oversees the pro bono arm of LCD’s direct services

Program Development and Evaluation:

• Coordination of in-service trainings for staff, including both substantive legal issues as well as skills-based trainings
• Oversees data collection, including setting uniform data points, storage, outcome measures, and client authorizations
• Coordinates with the Supervising Attorney and staff attorneys across MLP sites to share best MLP practices
• Coordinates with the Housing Director to ensure compliance with expected deliverables and outcomes

Community Involvement and Systemic Advocacy:

• Oversees LCD attendance at specific Philadelphia Bar Committee monthly meetings, task force group meetings, and MLP cohort meetings
• In coordination with the ED and Housing Director, cultivate and maintain relationships with regional legal services agencies to identify areas for collaboration;
• In coordination with the ED, identifies areas to target for policy advocacy and impact litigation;
• Oversees submission of abstracts to regional and national conferences regarding the MLP model, LCD’s MLP Initiative, and LCD programs.

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SALARY RANGE: $120,000-$125,000 (position level & salary commensurate with education & experience)

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) is the Philadelphia region’s Metropolitan Planning Organization. We believe DVRPC is a place to work, learn, and create a career in a professional and stimulating environment that values diversity, innovation, and bringing your best self to work. If your background and experience match the following vacancy, we would like to hear from you.

DVRPC seeks an Associate Director of Climate Strategy to coordinate the integration of climate action, including mitigation and adaptation, across multiple divisions of DVRPC. This new position will report to the Director of Community Planning. This high-level position requires advanced professional work with management, supervisory, and administrative responsibilities for several technical planning offices; a progressive approach and vision for integrating climate data, research, planning and programs into DVRPC’s work; and leadership in instilling collaboration across the agency. In addition, this position is charged with assisting upper management with administrative and compliance duties and commission-wide tasks.

Candidates should demonstrate deep knowledge and experience with issues around climate change, climate mitigation, and climate adaptation and resilience. As this is a growth area for DVRPC, the candidate should possess a vision of what role DVRPC can play in this space, how climate priorities can be integrated into metropolitan planning processes, how current processes can be evaluated or organized through a climate lens, and how best to integrate the work across functional units, including transportation and regional planning. The ideal candidate should also bring an understanding of the key partners working on climate in the region, including their needs and challenges. The candidate should also bring ideas and experience in best practices around community engagement and messaging about climate action.

Candidates will oversee the majority of work in the Offices of Climate and Environment and Sustainable Energy. Most staff currently working in those Offices are expected to report either directly or indirectly (whether Manager level or other) to this new Associate Director (AD), though some staff may remain reporting to the Livable Communities AD. Final organizational structure will be determined based on the candidate’s experience and expertise.

Beyond overseeing specific offices, additional responsibilities include managing consultant contracts for climate-related work, including DVRPC’s Clean Energy Transition Plan and Regional Resilience Landscape Assessment, working closely with the relevant DVRPC project managers; providing oversight and guidance on the MSA-wide Comprehensive Climate Action Plan, working closely with staff and stakeholders; providing guidance on DVRPC’s NREL Clean Energy to Communities Technical Partnership; and researching peer regions’ best practices in climate action. The candidate will support their staff by giving direction and oversight to a wide variety of climate planning and programming activities.

Other assignments include direct involvement in the development of DVRPC’s annual Unified Planning Work Program (Work Program), monthly progress report review, product review, participation in monthly Directors’ meetings, and outside partner coordination and relationship management. The candidate should be forward thinking and enthusiastic about coordinating with staff on the progression and integration of climate action into DVRPC’s planning work.

Assignments are performed in accordance with overall agency policies and professional standards. Work will be reviewed by the Director of Community Planning, with input from the Executive Director, and possibly other Directors, as appropriate, through meetings, coordination activities, and the evaluate of results.
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