Legal Coordinator

Job description

Ascentria Care Alliance employees and volunteers take pride in the impact they have on the people they serve. It’s more than just a job, it’s an opportunity our employees have to care for and share in the lives of people who greatly need and appreciate their presence. Ascentria Care Alliance focuses on every child, elder, disabled person, refugee, endangered teen or teenage mom in order to build stronger communities one person at a time. This is an excellent opportunity to enhance the operations of a $125m non-profit social services organization with programs throughout New England. The Legal Coordinator will liaise with legal providers in order to advocate for and assist in advancing youth client immigration cases. The Legal Coordinator will work with Ascentria’ s Division of Children Services (DCS), a division of the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor (URM) program, which provides foster care and case management support to unaccompanied youth in the United States who are granted asylum or special immigrant juvenile status. The role of staff members is to support unaccompanied youth in foster care in their transition to life in the United States. The Legal Coordinator is a key member of...