Senior Attorney, Legal Training

About KIND 
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) is a global leader in the protection of unaccompanied and separated children who are forcibly displaced from their countries of origin. Launched in 2008, KIND champions a world in which every child’s rights and well-being are protected throughout their journey to safety.  Building on its extensive programming and successful model in the United States, KIND is expanding in the Americas and Europe to bring its experience to bear in working with unaccompanied and separated children. Our work focuses on addressing the legal and mental health needs of this population; building strong partnerships and engaging in training and capacity strengthening with governments, NGOs, and the private sector; and advocating for systemic and pragmatic reforms to advance the rights of unaccompanied and separated children.
Position Summary
KIND seeks a Senior Attorney, Legal Training to join its Training and Technical Assistance team within the organization’s Global Partnerships, Capacity Strengthening and Training department.  The Training and Technical Assistance team is a multi-disciplinary team comprised of legal and psychosocial service professionals that work together to provide holistic, trauma informed, culturally responsive training and technical assistance on unaccompanied children’s cases.  The incumbent will contribute to the development and implementation of a training and technical assistance program for legal professionals representing and assisting unaccompanied children released from U.S. federal custody. The Senior Attorney, Legal Training will develop and deliver content for training and technical assistance to legal professionals providing services to unaccompanied children. The incumbent will also contribute to the development of materials explaining legal processes, rights, and responsibilities to unaccompanied children and their caregivers. The Senior Attorney, Legal Training reports to Director, Legal Training or Managing Attorney, Training and Technical Assistance.
This is a remote position based from any location in the U.S. 
This position is contingent upon continued funding.

Essential Functions

• Provide Legal Technical Assistance


• Drafts legal practice guides, toolkits, infographics, checklists, sample filings, quick tip sheets, and other materials. 
• Ensures materials comply with KIND’s style guide.
• Drafts, updates, and revises materials for use in an external portal for KIND partners.
• Monitors legal developments and policy changes impacting the representation of unaccompanied children, contribute to regular written updates regarding such developments, and create advisory tools in response to changes. 
• Drafts simple information for unaccompanied children and/or parents. 
• Provides expert legal technical assistance to legal professionals providing services to unaccompanied children by:
• Leading and/or participating in group technical assistance activities for KIND’s staff or partners, such as group office hours, thematic round tables, or similar.
• Responding directly to questions, connecting individuals to resources and others with expertise, and facilitating contact with outside experts as needed.
• Identifying common trends or issues to inform the development of technical assistance resources and trainings.
• Working with Psychosocial Training staff to ensure holistic, trauma informed, child centered, and culturally responsive approach.
• Tracks existing and/or new resources as they become available for practitioners representing unaccompanied children to maximize access to robust resources.
• Assists with optimizing the organization, accessibility, and integration of KIND’s legal technical assistance resources within organization-wide platforms.


• Train Legal Professionals 


• In collaboration with KIND’s Psychosocial Training team members, develops content to train  KIND staff and partners on a range of topics necessary to provide high quality, trauma informed and culturally responsive representation to unaccompanied children, such as asylum, special immigrant juvenile status, representing children in removal proceedings and before the asylum office, the intersection of immigration and the child welfare system, and more. 
• Presents legal trainings to individuals providing services to unaccompanied children, including in-person presentations, mock hearings, and online/webinar presentations.
• Drafts scripts for video trainings and record training videos for working with and representing unaccompanied children.
• In coordination with other Legal Training team members, researches training needs, monitors developments in effective adult and professional education practices, and develops effective training modes to reach the target audience of practitioners.