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CHIRLA is a California leader with national impact made of diverse immigrant families and individuals who act as agents of social change to achieve a world with freedom of mobility, full human rights, and true participatory democracy. CHIRLA organizes and serves individuals, institutions and coalitions to build power, transform public opinions, and change policies to achieve full human, civil and labor rights. Guided by power, love and vision of our community, CHIRLA embraces and drives progressive social change.\nPOSITION DESCRIPTION:\nThe Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) is seeking a Managing Attorney (PSA), this position will report to the Director of Programs and Subcontract Administrationand will provide legal technical support and training, including oversight of the progress and reporting for a variety of programs, subcontracts and administration. This position will oversee the various aspects related to legal services programs. They will also collaboratively work with other attorneys on managing contracts,including government contracts, vendor and professional services agreements, events, and fee-for service contracts.This position will also work internally with other CHIRLA departments such as finance, data, and others to support and track projects and tasks relevant to the required contractual program obligations for CHIRLA.\nThe Managing Attorney (PSA) position will work with CHIRLA’s program Director, to provide legal support across a wide range of legal, regulatory, compliance, and ethical issues. Additionally, this position will track, supervise, and oversee subcontractors’ work progression and contract compliance to report to the various government agencies and partners with monthly and quarterly reporting.\nThe Managing Attorney (PSA) must be licensed, and possess a Juris Doctor from a reputable, accredited law school alongside experience with document review projects, and the review of complex, voluminous documents. A professional attitude and strong work ethic are required, alongside strong written and verbal communication skills, exceptional attention to detail, and organizational abilities.\nRESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:\nDesign and implement training for Legal Service providers in the immigration field.\nCultivate relationships with partners to ensure up-to-date legal issues are understood and followed.\nUpdate and oversee compliance tracking systems to ensure all internal and external partners follow and complete contractual obligations.\nProvide the Programs and Subcontract Administration team with status reports on internal and external partners’ performance.\nCreate, review, negotiate, and draft a broad range of contracts and agreements, including but not limited to subcontractor agreements, service agreements, consulting agreements, MOUs and other legal documents, on behalf of the organization as an administrator.\nEnsure compliance with relevant regulations, statutes, and contractual obligations.\nDraft, review, and revise program and administrative related agreements and templates.\nManage contract inventory\nDraft responses and potential internal strategies to contract disputes.\nDraft policies, procedures, and timelines to ensure efficient workflow and completion of tasks.\nAssist with contract auditing and provide suggestions to mitigate risks based on auditing results.\nPrepare and lead internal and external programs’ staff, meetings, responses, and updates.\nDesign and deliver training for staff members to ensure internal policies and procedures are followed and daily partner compliance is tracked and recorded.\nCollaborate with other internal CHIRLA departments such as finance, data, policy, and others, to ensure compliance with relevant contractual obligations and report to our PSA director status updates.\nEnsure subcontractors are abiding by contract terms and tracking due diligence.\nExamine and evaluate the terms of new contracts and proposals for changes to contracts.\nAssists Director in updating and maintaining a system for identifying and reporting program compliance issues, complaints, concerns, questions, resolution, and follow-up.\nDraft and coordinate responses to identified compliance questions, concerns or federal/state inquiries or investigations, including audits\nManage all workshops, community standards or practice training, legal technical assistance and partner audit and site visits.\nRepresent the Director at meetings and committees\nStaff Management:\nSupervise, oversee, lead, and manage staff, including Managing Attorneys, Program Managers, Subcontractor Administrators, Program Assistants, etc. to ensure all are working at capacity to meet deliverables of all government contracts and other funding sources.\nSupervise staff members within the Programs and Subcontract Administration Department, review their work product and ensure deadlines are timely met.\nOn-site supervision and visits the branch offices as needed.\nConduct regular supervision meetings with staff\nConduct review of staff files before submitted to funders\nConduct open and closed contract file review on a quarterly basis\nManage the reporting process for Performance and Quality Improvement\nSupport with implementation of new hire onboarding and training plans to ensure new staff understand their responsibilities and enter the teamwork flow seamlessly.\nMentor staff to create a safe space to learn and grow by being a resource for immigration law related questions.\nBudget Management/Fund Sourcing:\nResponsible for monitoring funding sources and expenses\nResponsible for maintaining relationships with current funders\nResponsible for updating budgets and tracking program costs and writing quarterly and year end reports for all funding sources.\nResponsible for billing, reporting, and documentation\nSKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:\nQualified applicants for this position should have a record of outstanding academic achievement, superior writing and analytical skills, relevant work experience and have demonstrated an interest in government contracts law. All applicants should have excellent writing and public speaking skills.\nRequired\nJD and an active membership in the California State Bar or another State Bar with at least 5 years post bar admission.\nA high level of integrity and the ability to maintain confidentiality\nAt least five years’ experience in immigration law\nAt least 3 or more years of direct services experience, in a nonprofit setting\nExperienced training, mentoring staff, attorneys and/or other professionals required\nExperience working within or demonstrated enthusiasm for leadership in an interdisciplinary setting and developing programs and workplans.\nMust have experience working with underserved and diverse populations\nMust be able to travel to and visit various CHIRLA offices belonging to partners for events, audits, meetings and services.\nStrong interpersonal and presentation skills, along with ability to communicate with others at all levels of the organization.\nSupport CHIRLA’s fundraising goals including annual fundraising drive and GALA activities\nExperience doing in-person legal services clinics with partner organizations, external vendors and pro-bono attorneys.\nMust be flexible to work early morning, evenings and Saturdays during clinical/consultations times as needed.\n PreferredAdmitted to practice and in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar (CA. preferred)\nProject, team, or organizational management experience a plus\nTraining others in new legal immigration rules and regulations\nDesired Traits or Characteristic\nServe as internal contract management expert\nExcellent Public Speaking skills\nExcellent analytical skills\nExcellent oral and written communication skills\nExcellent judgment, high emotional intelligence and ability to maintain confidentiality and act collaboratively\nAbility to have positive working relationships with staff, members and allies\nAbility to work effectively under pressure with last-minute deadlines\nExceptional skills in comprehension, analysis, and technical writing, including the ability to articulate and explain complex funding and financial issues in a clear, non-technical manner\nExperience collaborating with community organizations in local geographic area\nHighly self-motivated, creative, takes initiative, ability to learn quickly, flexible and able to work as part of an interdisciplinary team of advocates.\nProactive nature in using technology and systems to maximize efficiencies with tasks\nStrong commitment to CHIRLA’s mission of empowering low-income community groups\nStrong interpersonal skills, including the ability to successfully relate to community residents\n_________________________________________________________________________________________JOB TITLE: Managing Attorney, Programs and Subcontract Administration (PSA)\nSalary & Benefits: $95,000 -- $102,752 CHIRLA offers a competitive salary based on qualifications and an excellent benefit package, which includes generous time off benefits, 401K Plan, health, dental and vision plans.\nFLSA Classification: Exempt/Hourly, full-time regular\nClassification: CHIRLA recognizes a staff bargaining unit affiliated with AFSCME District Council 36. This position is not included in CHIRLA’s bargaining unit and covered under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.\nREPORTS TO: Director of Programs and Subcontract Administration\nCLOSING DATE OF THIS POSITION: Position will remain open until filled.\nLOCATION: Santa Ana CA\nCHIRLA is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and administers all terms and conditions of employment, including recruitment, appointment, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfers, training and educational opportunities without regard to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, genetic information as defined by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, race, religion or religious creed, color, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 or older), sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related disability, military or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law or ordinance or regulation. All such discrimination is unlawful. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. All such discrimination is unlawful.\nOpen Positions are available at: www.CHIRLA.org/Career Center use link -\nCareer Center - The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights\nAll Applicants will be required to complete an Application for Employment prior to any scheduled interview.","description_format":"text","description_chars":11038,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T17:39:04Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":84,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.841,"p_room":1,"age_days":10,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":102752,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/chirla-managing-attorney-programs-and-subcontract-administration-psa-chirla","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/chirla-managing-attorney-programs-and-subcontract-administration-psa-chirla.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T10:41:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":15294,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1785947},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1785947"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fchirla-managing-attorney-programs-and-subcontract-administration-psa-chirla"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fchirla-managing-attorney-programs-and-subcontract-administration-psa-chirla"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fchirla-managing-attorney-programs-and-subcontract-administration-psa-chirla"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/chirla-managing-attorney-programs-and-subcontract-administration-psa-chirla\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fchirla-managing-attorney-programs-and-subcontract-administration-psa-chirla"}]}