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NHeLP Job Announcement: Reproductive Health and Justice Staff Attorney (June '07)
- Organization: National Health Law Program
- Document Type: Article/News
- Creation Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
- Submitted: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
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NHeLP Job Announcement: Reproductive Health and Justice Staff Attorney (June '07)
Note: This position can be based out of any of our three offices: Los Angeles, Washington, DC, or Chapel Hill, NC.
The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) is seeking a staff attorney to direct its Initiative to Promote Reproductive Health for Low-Income Women (“Initiative”). The Initiative is NHeLP’s strategy for enhancing low-income women’s access to reproductive health services in the United States, within NHeLP’s broader health advocacy agenda. The Initiative promotes the reproductive health and rights of low-income women and women of color by providing leadership and catalyzing collaboration among mainstream health advocacy organizations and reproductive rights groups throughout the country.
NHeLP seeks a dynamic attorney with substantive expertise on reproductive legal and policy issues who can effectively advance the reproductive health and human rights of low- income women. The attorney must be able to demonstrate a history of working in
national coalitions, strong leadership skills, and ability to develop and implement NHeLP’s legal, policy, and advocacy strategies for achieving reproductive justice. The attorney should have experience working within communities of color and demonstrate an understanding of the unique issues of reproductive justice as they impact women of color and other marginalized populations.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Lead, plan, oversee, and implement NHeLP’s reproductive justice agenda, including developing a broad array of strategies and policy solutions at the national, state and local levels.
• Develop analyses of legal and policy developments, legislation, and laws concerning reproductive justice; respond to requests for legal analysis from staff as well as external sources including elected officials and candidates, coalition partners, attorneys, media, and scholars.
• Draft legal and policy publications, including fact sheets, memoranda, and articles.
• Promote NHeLP’s visibility in the areas of human rights, social justice, health advocacy, and reproductive health among policymakers, government entities, and the advocacy community through participation in coalitions, writing, presentations, trainings and public speaking.
• Participate in major case litigation in cooperation with the field attorneys including conducting research, preparing pleadings, participating in oral argument, and writing and reviewing amicus curiae briefs where appropriate.
• Respond to requests for assistance from field attorneys and health advocates by performing legal research and preparing memoranda.
• Maintain and expand relationships with members of the media; represent NHeLP’s perspective to the press as appropriate.
• Collaborate with other staff as appropriate.
• Supervise law student interns.
• Assist the Executive Director and Development staff in developing fundraising proposals, and cultivating relationships with foundation officials and major donors.
• Conduct legislative and administrative advocacy in cooperation with field attorneys and health advocates including drafting legislation, performing research, and participating in coalitions, when appropriate.
• Write articles and columns for NHeLP’s Health Advocate newsletter and other journals, as appropriate, on recent developments and advocacy strategies.
• Attend training sessions and maintain and expand professional competency.
• Participate in staff meetings and fulfill such administrative responsibilities as are delegated by the executive director and/or the professional staff.
Additional Qualifications:
• J.D. degree and admission to a state bar
• 5 years legal experience
• Knowledge of public health programs, especially Medicaid preferred
• Commitment to NHeLP’s mission of providing the best possible representation to the low-income community
• Applicants should possess a high level of independence and initiative, good judgment, excellent speaking and writing abilities, the ability to produce the highest caliber legal work, creativity, and a willingness to work with others toward the most effective strategies and initiatives to advance civil rights. In addition, the successful candidate will have the ability to talk about legal and other complex issues in clear, persuasive terms for non-lawyer audiences.
COMMITMENT: Full-time, immediate availability
SALARY: Commensurate with experience; generous benefits
ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION:
The National Health Law Program was established in 1969 to serve as a national resource for expertise on eligibility, access and quality concerns in public health programs. With offices on both coasts, we manage a broad array of national, state, and local projects ranging from complex analyses of Medicaid law to consumer education and our award-winning web site for health care advocates, www.healthlaw.org. We provide legal expertise to non-profit health organizations as well as frame new legal theories and work with policy makers to design public programs grounded in the experience and needs of health consumers. NHeLP works on a day-to-day basis with other national advocacy and community-based organizations on strategy, analysis, and joint activities to address the health access problems that imperil the ability of people, particularly low-income and special needs populations, to get the care they need.
NHeLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. NHeLP provides equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, pregnancy, military or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by state or federal law.
TO APPLY: Send letter describing interest and relevant experience and resume to:
Laurence M. Lavin, Director
National Health Law Program
2639 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90054
FAX: 310/204-0891
Or email:nhelp@healthlaw.org
Note: This position can be based out of any of our three offices: Los Angeles, Washington, DC, or Chapel Hill, NC.
The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) is seeking a staff attorney to direct its Initiative to Promote Reproductive Health for Low-Income Women (“Initiative”). The Initiative is NHeLP’s strategy for enhancing low-income women’s access to reproductive health services in the United States, within NHeLP’s broader health advocacy agenda. The Initiative promotes the reproductive health and rights of low-income women and women of color by providing leadership and catalyzing collaboration among mainstream health advocacy organizations and reproductive rights groups throughout the country.
NHeLP seeks a dynamic attorney with substantive expertise on reproductive legal and policy issues who can effectively advance the reproductive health and human rights of low- income women. The attorney must be able to demonstrate a history of working in
national coalitions, strong leadership skills, and ability to develop and implement NHeLP’s legal, policy, and advocacy strategies for achieving reproductive justice. The attorney should have experience working within communities of color and demonstrate an understanding of the unique issues of reproductive justice as they impact women of color and other marginalized populations.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Lead, plan, oversee, and implement NHeLP’s reproductive justice agenda, including developing a broad array of strategies and policy solutions at the national, state and local levels.
• Develop analyses of legal and policy developments, legislation, and laws concerning reproductive justice; respond to requests for legal analysis from staff as well as external sources including elected officials and candidates, coalition partners, attorneys, media, and scholars.
• Draft legal and policy publications, including fact sheets, memoranda, and articles.
• Promote NHeLP’s visibility in the areas of human rights, social justice, health advocacy, and reproductive health among policymakers, government entities, and the advocacy community through participation in coalitions, writing, presentations, trainings and public speaking.
• Participate in major case litigation in cooperation with the field attorneys including conducting research, preparing pleadings, participating in oral argument, and writing and reviewing amicus curiae briefs where appropriate.
• Respond to requests for assistance from field attorneys and health advocates by performing legal research and preparing memoranda.
• Maintain and expand relationships with members of the media; represent NHeLP’s perspective to the press as appropriate.
• Collaborate with other staff as appropriate.
• Supervise law student interns.
• Assist the Executive Director and Development staff in developing fundraising proposals, and cultivating relationships with foundation officials and major donors.
• Conduct legislative and administrative advocacy in cooperation with field attorneys and health advocates including drafting legislation, performing research, and participating in coalitions, when appropriate.
• Write articles and columns for NHeLP’s Health Advocate newsletter and other journals, as appropriate, on recent developments and advocacy strategies.
• Attend training sessions and maintain and expand professional competency.
• Participate in staff meetings and fulfill such administrative responsibilities as are delegated by the executive director and/or the professional staff.
Additional Qualifications:
• J.D. degree and admission to a state bar
• 5 years legal experience
• Knowledge of public health programs, especially Medicaid preferred
• Commitment to NHeLP’s mission of providing the best possible representation to the low-income community
• Applicants should possess a high level of independence and initiative, good judgment, excellent speaking and writing abilities, the ability to produce the highest caliber legal work, creativity, and a willingness to work with others toward the most effective strategies and initiatives to advance civil rights. In addition, the successful candidate will have the ability to talk about legal and other complex issues in clear, persuasive terms for non-lawyer audiences.
COMMITMENT: Full-time, immediate availability
SALARY: Commensurate with experience; generous benefits
ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION:
The National Health Law Program was established in 1969 to serve as a national resource for expertise on eligibility, access and quality concerns in public health programs. With offices on both coasts, we manage a broad array of national, state, and local projects ranging from complex analyses of Medicaid law to consumer education and our award-winning web site for health care advocates, www.healthlaw.org. We provide legal expertise to non-profit health organizations as well as frame new legal theories and work with policy makers to design public programs grounded in the experience and needs of health consumers. NHeLP works on a day-to-day basis with other national advocacy and community-based organizations on strategy, analysis, and joint activities to address the health access problems that imperil the ability of people, particularly low-income and special needs populations, to get the care they need.
NHeLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. NHeLP provides equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, pregnancy, military or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by state or federal law.
TO APPLY: Send letter describing interest and relevant experience and resume to:
Laurence M. Lavin, Director
National Health Law Program
2639 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90054
FAX: 310/204-0891
Or email:nhelp@healthlaw.org
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