Description
For 50 years, Bet Tzedek Legal Services has provided high-quality, free legal services to Los Angeles’ most vulnerable residents. The Homeowner Protection team continues Bet Tzedek’s history of real estate and economic justice work. The team focuses on protecting homeowners at risk of losing ownership or equity to their homes to promote housing stability and preserve intergenerational wealth and stability in Los Angeles’s highest need communities. The delivery of legal services starts with our intake screener, who works compassionately to screen potential clients, securing eligibility and preliminary case information, manage client information in our case management database, conduct basic research and provide referrals or follow up when necessary. This is a temporary position to assist the team with a backlog of work. The duration will be for at least 4 months.
This position is onsite. As such, the employee will be required to work in the office or other work-related locations to meet workload/business needs.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Handle a high-volume of calls from community members seeking legal services.
- Interviewing and collecting facts and information from potential clients and other sources.
- Enter and track data in LegalServer (case management database), including assigning staff for client follow-up.
- Data entry, scanning, copying, word processing, creating and maintaining spreadsheets, processing case files, drafting and mailing correspondence, and other administrative duties.
- Maintain updated referral information.
- Provide other general administrative support as requested.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Requirements
- AA/AS and/or BA/BS or equivalent work/life experience (required);
- Minimum one year of experience working in a professional office setting (required);
- Spanish proficiency and ability to provide written and oral Spanish translation (strongly preferred);
- Proficiency with MS Office and legal databases (including Word; Power Point; Excel; Lexis Nexis/Westlaw) (required);
- Proficiency with Netdocs or other web-based document management system (preferred);
- Proficiency with case management systems (LegalServer, Kemp’s PRIME, JusticeServer) (preferred);
- At least 2-5 years of law firm or legal nonprofit experience (preferred);
- Demonstrated patience, compassion, respect, and commitment to serving low-income persons (required);
- Demonstrate an understanding and commitment to Bet Tzedek’s mission of equal justice for all and Bet Tzedek’s core values of leadership, community-based advocacy, and innovation (required).
BENEFITS PACKAGE:
- Bet Tzedek offers an excellent benefits package in addition to competitive salaries. These benefits currently include:
- A generous number of paid holidays (up to 21 per year), vacation (up to 20, depending on number of years with agency), and sick days (up to 45) annually.
- Personal and floating holidays
- Compensatory time for exempt employees.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave (after 1 year of employment.)
- Various paid leaves
- Medical, dental, vision, chiropractic and acupuncture coverage for employees and dependents, with office visit co-pay reimbursement for HMO enrollees.
- Life/accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, long-term disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Plan.
- Voluntary (employee-contributed) life/AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital confinement, and pet insurance.
- Employee-contributed 401(k) plan.
- Employee-contributed 403(b) plan.
- Healthcare and childcare flexible spending accounts.
- Commuter transit and/or parking benefits.
HOW TO APPLY:
- Email letter of interest and resume to bettzedek.0F.541@applynow.io, Subject: “Temporary Intake Screener.” Please, no phone calls.
Note: All positions are subject to funding; ongoing funding or employment cannot be assured.
Bet Tzedek is a unionized environment. Our salary range for unionized positions reflects our agreed upon step placement system, and the final offer extended to candidates is based on an internal equity review and candidates’ relevant experience, skills, background, and bar date, if applicable.
To best serve our communities, Bet Tzedek seeks diverse staff with cultural competency reflecting our client populations. We strongly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented communities and historically oppressed groups to apply.