Job Opportunities with the Vera Institute for Justice

The Vera Institute of Justice is looking to fill two positions in its New York office. Both are with the institute's Center on Immigration and Justice .

The folks at Vera are looking for a Senior Program Associate as well as a Program Analyst.

The Senior Program Associate will work on the Legal Orientation Program (LOP), which informs detained immigrants about their rights, and the immigration court and detention processes.

The Program Analyst will work with both the LOP and the National Qualified Representative Program (NQRP), which  provides government-funded legal representation to detained immigrants who are determined to be not mentally competent to represent themselves in their immigration proceedings.

The deadline to apply is November 7, 2014.

-KitJ