Capacity Building and Partnership Lead

Position Details: 

• 9 - 5 Monday to Friday with some evening and weekend work
• Primarily in-person at the CASA office with some travel
• Salary range: $85,000 - $100,000 per year + 5.5% RRSP contribution + benefits package
• Anticipated start date: As soon as possible 

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Capacity Building and Partnerships Lead is knowledgeable about the many challenges facing young people with no or precarious immigration status. They will play a central role in designing, managing, and scaling programs that are trauma-informed, equity-driven, and grounded in the realities facing young people with no or precarious status, while building partnerships across the legal, nonprofit, and youth serving sectors. They will mobilize the bar to deliver pro bono immigration legal services while strengthening the capacity of the broader community of professionals working with young people.   

Specific responsibilities include: 

• Leading the design and facilitation of access to justice legal service programs that mobilize 
  lawyers to provide pro bono, accessible immigration legal services to low-income young 
  people.  

1. Developing trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, youth-centered service models that 
   address systemic barriers to accessing immigration legal services.
2. Developing, facilitating and managing program operations, including low-barrier 
   intake, summary legal advice, and ongoing representation systems, triage processes, 
   and systems navigation and case management models.
3. Building and managing partnerships with law firms, corporate legal departments, 
   and others to deliver legal services.
4. Establishing program partnerships with shelters, outreach programs, and youth-
   serving and migrant-serving agencies.
5. Leading development and delivery of training and support frameworks to enable 
   non-immigration specialist lawyers to contribute effectively.  
6. Developing, tracking and evaluating program impact.
7. Preparing reports and communications to sustain and grow programs.

• Leading the design and delivery of training for adults supporting children and youth with no 
  or precarious immigration status such as youth workers, shelter staff, teachers, school 
  administrators, guidance staff, settlement workers, and lawyers and other legal service 
  providers.

1. Developing accessible, practical curricula
2. Facilitating trainings and workshops
3. Developing plain-language resources such as toolkits and referral guides

• Supporting organizational development, such as contributing to strategic directions, 
  collaboration opportunities, and other CASA initiatives; contributing to program monitoring, 
  evaluation, and funding applications and reports; representing CASA at meetings and 
  events.

Qualifications and Skills 

While we outline our ideal qualifications, we are always open to exceptional talent. If you possess most of the required skills and experience, please consider applying. 

Required: 

• Law or paralegal degree preferred; however, degrees in social work, public policy, or related 
  fields, or an equivalent mix of education and experience, may be considered   
• 5+ years of experience in program development and delivery, and/or service delivery in a 
  legal, or social services context 
• Passionate about child rights, equality and social justice; committed to working with an anti-
  oppression, anti-racist, and intersectional approach 
• Demonstrated ability to build, manage, and work within cross-sector partnerships (e.g., 
  legal, nonprofit, education, corporate) 
• Ability to build relationships based on trust and rapport with a wide variety of stakeholders 
  including young people, service providers, lawyers, law students 
• Experience designing or delivering training, workshops, or capacity-building initiatives, and 
  resources 
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to engagingly explain 
  complex topics to diverse audiences
•  Knowledge of Canadian immigration and refugee law and processes
•  Experience working with migrant and/or youth populations 
• Sound judgment, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills 
• Superior time management and administrative skills; able to independently organize and 
  prioritize tasks to achieve program objectives 
• Genuinely friendly, compassionate, collaborative, adaptable, and curious

** Additional Assets can be found on the detailed job description