Life Span Job Announcements

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:

• 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;
  • 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:

• Develop, organize and implement annual strategic fundraising plan

• Increase private grant funding;

• Plan and implement special events;

• Create development infrastructure including fundraising software, donor information, communications, staff training, and volunteer leadership;

• Staff  board fundraising and board recruitment committees;

• Prepare communication materials, including newsletter, brochures, display board, website text and annual report;

• Serve as the contact for Life Span’s fundraising and development efforts;

• Supervise gift processing, record keeping, and financial reports;

• 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)
 

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)

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

• Conduct client interviews and complete intake paperwork.
• 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.
• Provide clients with referrals to other needed services.
• Maintain case files.
• Maintain complete client statistics and submit as required by Life Span    administration on a timely basis.
• Accompany clients and attorneys to court.
• Translate written documents and interpret at client interviews and to assist clients in court.
• Attend and participate in trainings and outreach as assigned.
• 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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