Staff Attorney, Housing Justice – Idealist

Experiences to: Director of Housing Justice

Site of Occupation: Chicago, Illinois

Organizational Description:

The Shriver Center on Poverty Law fights for financial and racial justice. Over the earlier 50 years, we have secured hundreds of legislation and coverage victories with and for people encountering financial instability in Illinois and across the country. Anything we do is driven by communities most affected by poverty. We litigate, shape coverage, and teach and convene multistate networks of lawyers, local community leaders, and activists to progress possibility for all—not just the several. Our nation is rife with legislation and procedures that systematically disadvantage particular teams although advantaging many others dependent on their race, gender, and other aspects of their identities. We feel legislation and policies—and the institutions that apply them—should be made to guidance people today. Alongside one another, we’re turning this ideal into reality. We are constructing a foreseeable future where by all men and women, households, and long run generations have equal dignity, regard, and electric power under the law. By way of our advocacy initiatives, we function to get constructive improve and give a vary of specialist enhancement resources that develop and help the countrywide network of advocates engaged in those efforts.

The Shriver Middle is an equal prospect employer and encourages programs from skilled candidates of all backgrounds.  

Posture Description: The Shriver Centre seeks a Team Legal professional seasoned in housing law and policy. Making use of the full advocacy toolbox (legislative advocacy, coalition developing, litigation, and so on.), the Employees Lawyer will assistance the Shriver Heart attain its mission by advancing our housing advocacy initiatives nationally and in Illinois. The Staff members Attorney participates in advocacy to maintain protected, first rate, reasonably priced housing for pretty lower-earnings families, advance reasonable housing, and increase housing accessibility for disproportionately excluded populations.

Duties:    

• Conduct outreach, training, and litigation to protect the households of family members living in publicly supported cost-effective housing in Chicago and in the course of Illinois.
• Help the perform of tenant and community organizers in making and strengthening tenant associations. 
• Work with husband or wife organizations to formulate and have out tactic to enforce newly enacted Illinois law prohibiting resource of earnings discrimination in housing.
• Interact in legislative, administrative, and other plan advocacy to promote insurance policies that offer secure housing for very low-cash flow people and broaden fair housing protections.
• Serve as co-counsel or lead counsel in Shriver Center’s litigation, which includes lawsuits asserting statements less than the Honest Housing Act, Illinois Human Legal rights Act, and Reasonable Credit history Reporting Act.
• Take part in other housing-connected advocacy and in Shriver Center efforts to transfer its successes and information to a national or multi-condition scale.
• Contribute to raising funds for advocacy things to do, including aiding with grant proposals, attending web site visits, and figuring out new funding sources.
• Go on to learn about concerns and opportunity or systemic housing solutions through speak to with clientele, direct services vendors and neighborhood businesses, and to develop methods for accomplishing constructive variations for our clientele.
• Add to the strategic wondering of all of the Shriver Center’s anti-poverty and race fairness endeavours.
• Interact in in-depth research and scholarship on issues similar to housing fairness and oversee get the job done of volunteers and law university student interns as wanted.
• Take part as essential in many administrative duties and committees of the Shriver Center.
• Journey to Springfield, Illinois, and national conferences and meetings as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

These responsibilities describe the normal nature of the work to be carried out and need to not be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, responsibilities, and techniques demanded. Fair accommodations may be designed to allow folks with disabilities to conduct the critical features.

 Qualifications:  

• J.D., accredited to practice regulation in Illinois, and 2 years’ practical experience working towards law.
• Working experience in litigating federal and condition housing matters, engaging in community, state, or federal housing plan advocacy, or performing as a housing organizer needed.
• Information of and knowledge operating with federal backed housing packages strongly preferred.
• Fantastic study, examination, and crafting skills.
• Practical experience in or shown motivation to community fascination regulation and advocacy on behalf of people living in poverty.
• Skill to operate independently and as aspect of a staff.
• Means to develop and lead new and current jobs.
• Ability to take part in night and weekend group and shopper meetings.
• Ability to vacation for perform-similar meeting and conferences.

Income/Gains: This entire-time place provides a competitive public fascination salary ranging from $75,470 to $94,337 and a comprehensive advantages bundle that includes well being, dental, vision, daily life, and incapacity coverage, generous compensated go away, adaptable operate schedules, pre-tax adaptable expending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, and a 401(k) strategy. To sustain inside and external pay back fairness, the once-a-year salary available to the candidate of our picking is nonnegotiable and commensurate with working experience.  

Opening/Closing Date: Open instantly we will settle for programs till the position is filled, at which time the career announcement will be taken off from our website. We hope that one of individuals apps is yours. 

 Applications: Deliver a include letter, résumé, producing sample, and 3 references through email to [email protected] and [email protected] with the matter line “Housing Workers Lawyer Application.” Be sure to observe that the using the services of committee will review the protect letter to appraise each individual candidate’s applicable qualifications and working experience connected to the tasks and qualifications shown in the position description. 

 At the Shriver Middle, we know that a richly assorted blend of industry experts will make companies much more efficient. As such, we make demographic and experiential variety a hallmark and precedence of all our work. Fair accommodations may be manufactured to empower people with disabilities to accomplish the critical features.