Executive Director
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Description: Southeast Louisiana Legal Services is currently interviewing Executive Director right now, this vacancy will be dwelled in Louisiana. More complete informations about this vacancy opportunity kindly read the description below. Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (SLLS) seeks an Executive Director to lead this nationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free legal aid on c! ivil issues to low income households.
SLLS has been well-served by its highly regarded long standing co-executive directors. SLLS began in 1979 with a grant from Legal Services Corporation, In 2002, SLLS and New Orleans Legal Assistance Corporation, which was founded in 1967, merged. SLLS expanded again in 2011 to areas in and around Baton Rouge and Houma. On its budget of more than $6 million, SLLS serves an area nearly twice the land mass of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined which includes twenty-two southeast Louisiana Parishes. One half of the state's poverty population lives in the SLLS service area.
About the Position
The next Executive Director will lead SLLS in a time of great change and opportunity as the organization undertakes initiatives to strengthen legal work, streamline intake, support professional development, update technology, and grow resources.
High Priority Roles and Responsibilities for the next Executive Direct! or:
To articulate a clear strategic vision for SLLS' ! future, including its legal work
To safeguard its focus on clients
To strengthen relationships throughout the community as the leader and public face of SLLS
To implement the recommendations of the strategic planning process
To develop leadership throughout SLLS
To bring offices and staff together to a shared vision and full potential
To develop and expand the resources of SLLS
Qualifications of the next Executive Director:
Possession of a JD and the willingness and ability to become licensed in Louisiana
A passion for advocacy for the legal rights of low income clients
Ten years in the practice of law
Management experience involving staff supervision, financial oversight and reporting, budget development, and compliance with grant, contract and legal requirements
Experience in a multi-million dollar, multi-site nonprofit organization a plus
Experience in a! legal aid organization a plus
Success in resource development, including grant writing and private fundraising
An open and compassionate communication style
Confident leadership and decision-making skills
Experience working productively with individuals and organizations with shared or diverse goals, including staff, Board of Directors, bar associations, judiciary, client communities and the general community
Interest in advancing technology solutions in service of clients and efficiency
About Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and most of the SLLS service area with 145 mph winds. Eighty percent of New Orleans flooded after passage of the hurricane and six of the service area's ten parishes were devastated. Less than a month after Katrina, the area was hit by Hurricane Rita. Three years later, while the Katrina/Rita clean-up was still ongoing, Louisiana w! as again hit with back to back Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
Foll! owing the 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, SLLS joined with other LSC and non-LSC funded civil legal aid providers in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to respond to the legal needs of low income residents.
SLLS adjustments in diversity strategies, legal advocacy and collaborations with the judiciary, the private bar, law schools and law students, regional and national law firms, pro bono lawyers, and other legal and non-legal public interest organizations following these disasters are recognized nationally as major accomplishments in the delivery of civil legal aid.
This resilience and commitment to clients are important to SLLS' future as it fully develops its relationships throughout its expanded service area; manages the wide range of work it undertakes including special projects in the areas of income tax, foster children and foreclosure; and continues its leadership throughout Louisiana on public i! nterest legal efforts.
SLLS has revenue of over $6 million from federal, state, and local sources, both governmental and private. Its largest funders include the Legal Services Corporation, the Louisiana Bar Foundation, and the Department of Justice. Other sources of funding include IOLTA, courtfiling fees, juvenile, VAWA, and many others. SLLS has a staff of 90, including 50 lawyers. It has staffed offices in the cities of Hammond, New Orleans, Covington, Marrero, Baton Rouge and Houma.
For more information about Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, visit www.slls.org.
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If you were eligible to this vacancy, please send us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Southeast Louisiana Legal Services.
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This vacancy starts available on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 05:15:19 GMT