Community Education Lead, College of Law

The primary purposes of this position are: to facilitate and teach the Housing Stability Legal Advocate Program, an online, asynchronous program for community students; lead online synchronous legal skill-building training sessions for enrolled HSLA community students; identify relevant continuing education and support opportunities for HSLA students and certified HSLAs; facilitate attorney mentor relationships; maintain relationships with HSLAs and their host organizations to ensure future iteration maintains fidelity with communities' expressed desires; work as part of an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional teaching team to undertake exploration, design, and implementation of learner-centered teaching strategies for i4J's community legal education programs; lead data collection and evaluation efforts for the HSLA Program; produce community and funder reports regarding the HSLA Program; and expand the audience of i4J's research and findings.

This position is funded for 1 year with an opportunity for renewal / extension.

Candidates working anywhere in the U.S. may be considered for a remote assignment.

Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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Facilitate and teach the HSLA Initiative

• Combine critical legal design- and thinking- research approaches with rigorous and engaging pedagogical approaches to support student learning in a community-facing legal education classroom.
  
• Design community-centered and technology-enhanced flipped classroom content that i) prioritizes learner-centeredness, trauma-informed and trauma-responsive practices, learner agency, inclusivity, accessibility, and scalability as well as ii) guides students' experiential learning in a community-facing legal education classroom.
  
• Facilitate the online, asynchronous training components of the HSLA Program for the enrolled community students.
  
• Lead online, synchronous legal skill-building training sessions for enrolled HSLA community students
  
• Identify relevant continuing education, networking, and support opportunities for HSLA students and certified HSLAs; facilitate attorney mentor relationships
  
• Supervise and mentor any i4J GTAs and post-graduate fellows.
  
• Engage in regular professional development opportunities to stay current with applicable substantive law and the rapidly growing fields of community legal education.

Research and Evaluation of Community Legal Education

• Lead data collection and evaluation efforts for the HSLA Program;
  
• Produce community and funder reports regarding the HSLA Program, including evaluation findings.
  
• Publish i4J's community legal education work in scholarly journals to expand the reach and audience of i4J's Initiative-based findings from the field.
  
• Bridge the theoretical and scholarly siloes of experiential learning, clinical legal education, and community-engaged access to justice work.
• Attend relevant convenings and conferences to share i4J's community legal education work

Support the Community Legal Education Focus of
the HSLA Initiative

• Contribute to communications regarding community legal education in line with the overarching i4J strategic direction.
  
• Provide direct programmatic support in the capacity-building of community legal education programs
  
• Liaise with A2J organizations and state, local, and national jurisdictions to identify successes, challenges, and opportunity spaces associated with i4J's community legal education Initiatives.
• Liaise with participating community-based organization regarding the successes, challenges, and opportunity spaces associated with i4J's community legal education initiatives

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experience
  teaching in a higher education setting, and a deep commitment to online
  learning, enhancing learner agencies, and learner-centered approaches in
  education.
• Expert in
  community-driven legal advocacy, cross-jurisdictional community engagement, and
  working with vulnerable populations.
• Expert in program
  management in the legal design space, with exceptional skill in overseeing
  workflows that are responsive to the needs, goals, and lived realities of
  communities.
• Experience in
  engaging with law reform efforts across the civil legal system.
• Expert in design-
  and/or systems-thinking practices.
• Evidence of an
  empathetic and creative mindset and comfort with complex and sensitive issues.
• Comfort with
  ambiguity and fast-paced, rapidly evolving environments.
• Experience with
  strategic planning principles and practices, and demonstrated change, growth,
  and innovation management abilities.
• Excellent
  communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to
  effectively communicate with individuals of varying technical and substantive
  subject matter expertise.
• Broad knowledge
  in collaborative technology tools used in human-centered design and research.

• Juris Doctor
  degree.
• Minimum 3 years
  of experience in community-centered advocacy.

• Experience with online teaching and learning best practices.
  
• Experience leading successful multi-disciplinary teams and directing complex projects.
  
• Experience in creative problem solving.
  
• Experience in cross-jurisdictional community-engagement.
  
• Evidence of scholarly achievement or demonstrated potential as a scholar.