Compensation Range: $75,000 - $93,000 yearly commensurate with experience

Benefits:
We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and text books.

The position offers many fabulous features, including:

• A caring work environment, a reasonable case load with no quotas, and wonderful coworkers (no Right to Counsel funding). We are very worker-friendly, and we respect work-life balance, including flexible remote work. Union position.
• An opportunity for significant mentorship and collaboration with a dynamic team of experienced housing attorneys and prominent civil rights/poverty specialists. See www.housingworks.org/services/legal-services.
• The opportunity to engage in creative and zealous litigation and to help guide your own docket.
• The chance to serve as an essential line of defense against homelessness for a population who depend on housing for their very survival, and to uphold our core tenet: "housing is healthcare," through litigation, advocacy, and activism.
• The chance to participate in our award-winning civil rights impact litigation, and to significantly expand your litigation skills.

Overview:

Housing Works seeks a Staff Attorney to conduct poverty law and impact litigation. Housing Works seeks an attorney with at least one year of housing court experience to provide services to indigent people living with HIV/AIDS and other vulnerable individuals chiefly in the area of housing law, along with benefits, name changes, and other individual client services, and to assist with our award-winning impact litigation.

Responsibilities:

The individual's duties will include:

• Intake, advice, and representation in all facets of housing law, along with some benefits, consumer, and name change matters
• Assistance in all phases of impact litigation on issues such as housing, disability, and gender discrimination, public assistance, and homelessness.

Requirements:

Competitive applicants should demonstrate or possess:

• A strong commitment to social justice and human/civil rights
• Initiative and strong research, writing, and interpersonal skills
• Significant experience with housing law
• Spanish proficiency preferred but not required
• Bar membership required.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

• Include a cover letter and resume. Send applications via email ONLY to Legal Director Armen H. Merjian (pronouns: he/him/his) at the following address: [email protected]. Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Only competitive applicants will be contacted.

Job candidates should be aware that scammers may pose as employers and create fake job postings in order to extract personal information from individuals for financial gain. Housing Works will never ask job candidates for personal information, such as social security numbers or bank account details, over the phone. If you suspect that a job posting may be fake or wish to confirm that a job posting from Housing Works is genuine, please contact us at [email protected]

This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works' New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union ("RWDSU"). Accordingly, the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment related to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (a "CBA") between Housing Works and the RWDSU