Staff Attorney

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
• 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: View email address on click.appcast.io. 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 View email address on click.appcast.io

Housing Works, Inc. (HW) operates as a healing community dedicated to fighting for inclusive care, social justice, and equitable access to healthcare for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions. Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State's first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. HLP is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, PLWHAs, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community are encouraged to apply. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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

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