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DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE SPAN
Management
position in a 30 year old innovative domestic violence services agency
with a national reputation. The agency employs 28 expert, diverse
professionals who provide counseling, legal services, and other
programming to over 4000 clients per year. Our dynamic board of diverse
professionals supports our agency’s work. Our budget is $2,000,000.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree; Knowledge of and interest in domestic violence,
women’s issues, issues affecting low income women and children; and the
following experience:
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Three years of
proven experience in development, including:
- Annual
giving program implementation, including new donor development, renewals,
stewardship;
- Major gift
programs, including prospect research, cultivation, personal solicitation,
acknowledgment, and recognition;
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Recruitment, training and motivation of leadership volunteers;
- Federal,
state, and private grant research, cultivation, and grant writing;
- Fundraising
software and information management;
- Donor
communications, including direct mail, newsletters, and
internet communications;
- Budgeting,
business plan development, and performance evaluation.
Responsibilities:
The Director of Development reports to the Executive Director, and
staffs Board committees as needed. The Director of Development’s
overarching responsibility is to design and implement the agency’s
fundraising program.
Job duties:
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Develop,
organize and implement annual strategic fundraising plan
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Increase
private grant funding;
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Plan and
implement special events;
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Create
development infrastructure including fundraising software, donor
information, communications, staff training, and volunteer leadership;
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Staff board
fundraising and board recruitment committees;
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Prepare
communication materials, including newsletter, brochures, display board,
website text and annual report;
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Serve as the
contact for Life Span’s fundraising and development efforts;
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Supervise
gift processing, record keeping, and financial reports;
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Participate
in Life Span’s management team.
Compensation:
Competitive, based on experience and ability to improve individual donor
giving. Excellent benefits.
To Apply:
Please send resume and cover letter to: Denice Wolf Markham, Executive
Director, Life Span, 20 East Jackson Blvd., Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60604
or, email to
dmarkham@life-span.org. No telephone calls.
(3/2008)
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STAFF ATTORNEY
Life
Span’s Center for Legal Services and Advocacy seeks a full-time staff
attorney to provide legal services to victims of violence. Life Span is a
nationally known leader in the provision of services to victims of
violence and their children. Our comprehensive services include legal
advocacy and representation, counseling, and a 24-hour crisis line. Our
work encompasses such issues as police domestic violence, immigration,
employment issues, sexual assault protective orders, mental health, teen
dating violence, and battered women as defendants. Our agency has three
sites, and services are available in English, Spanish and Polish and are
free of charge. Our agency provides national leadership in policy work
and legislation, and our staff has trained lawyers and other professionals
in Illinois and across the country.
Job Duties:
Job responsibilities include civil
representation in orders of protection, family law and civil no contact
orders for clients with domestic violence and/or sexual assault issues.
The attorney will be housed at the Domestic Violence Centralized
Courthouse at 555 W.
Harrison in Chicago. The attorney will work with counseling and advocacy
staff when appropriate to provide a coordinated response to clients’
needs. The staff attorney will participate in systemic advocacy and policy
reform.
Reports to:
Executive Director
Qualifications:
Licensed to practice law in
Illinois;
Experience in public interest law and/or working with domestic violence
victims; Language skills in Spanish, Korean or Polish and biculturalism
strongly encouraged.
To Apply: Please send resume and cover letter to Life Span Center
for Legal Services and Advocacy,
20 East Jackson Blvd., Suite 500,
Chicago, IL 60604, Attention: Denice Wolf Markham, Executive Director.
No telephone calls. (6/2007) |
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PARALEGAL
Life Span’s Center for Legal Services
and Advocacy seeks a full-time paralegal to assist our staff of ten
attorneys in providing legal services to victims of violence. Life Span is
a nationally known leader in the provision of services to victims of
violence and their children. Our comprehensive services include legal
advocacy and representation, counseling, and a 24-hour crisis line. Our
work encompasses such issues as police domestic violence, immigration,
employment issues, sexual assault protective orders, mental health, teen
dating violence, and battered women as defendants. Our agency has three
sites, and services are available in English, Spanish and Polish and are
free of charge. Our agency provides national leadership in policy work and
legislation, and our staff has trained lawyers and other professionals in
Illinois and across the country.
General Job Description: Assist victims of domestic violence who seek
civil legal representation and/or criminal court advocacy and provide
paralegal support and additional assistance to staff attorneys and legal
director as needed.
Job Duties
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Conduct client interviews and complete
intake paperwork.
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Explain Life Span services and the
Illinois Domestic Violence Act to clients and help them form a plan of
action based on their options under the law.
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Provide clients with referrals to other
needed services.
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Maintain case files.
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Maintain complete client statistics and
submit as required by Life Span administration on a
timely basis.
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Accompany clients and attorneys to
court.
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Translate written documents and
interpret at client interviews and to assist clients in court.
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Attend and participate in trainings and
outreach as assigned.
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Assist attorneys with document
preparation.
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Arts Degree &/or Paralegal Certificate; language skills in
Spanish, Korean or Polish and biculturalism strongly encouraged;
commitment to working in the not-for-profit/public interest sector; prior
experience in working in a social service agency or with domestic violence
victims are helpful.
To Apply: Please mail resume and cover letter to
Life Span Center for Legal Services and Advocacy, 20 E. Jackson, Suite
500, Chicago, IL 60604, or via facsimile: (312) 408-1223, Attention:
Denice Wolf Markham, Executive Director, or e-mail: stroester@life-span.org. No
telephone calls.
(6/2007)
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