Careers
The Urban Justice Center is always looking for people interested in moving social justice forward. See below for opportunities – vacancies are sorted by the name of the Project they are with.
Family Law Staff Attorney: Domestic Violence Project
The Domestic Violence Project (DVP) at the Urban Justice Center seeks a full-time Family Law Staff Attorney to work within a legal-psychosocial framework with survivors of intimate partner violence to provide legal representation and advocacy on matters including custody/visitation, orders of protection, child/spousal support, divorce, and lead community-based outreach and trainings.
Immigration Attorney – Domestic Violence Project
DVP is seeking an immigration attorney to work within a legal-psychosocial framework with survivors of domestic violence to provide legal representation and advocacy on immigration matters including U and T visas, SIJS, adjustment of status, VAWA Self-Petitions, Battered Spouse Waivers, naturalization, and removal defense.
Documentary Production Intern – Free to Be Youth Project
Free to Be Youth is looking for a Documentary Production Intern
Fall ’24 – Spring ’25 Policy Intern – Free To Be Youth Project
The Policy Intern will support the Project Director in our grassroots lobbying and coalition building on issues that are critical to the LGBTQ+ community in New York City.
Legal Fellowship 2025 – Free to Be Youth Project
The Free to Be Youth Project (FYP) seeks to sponsor third-year law students, judicial law clerks, and recent law graduates for Skadden/Equal Justice Works/Justice Catalyst public interest law fellowships starting in Fall of 2025
Fall 2024 Development / Communications Intern – Free to Be Youth Project
The Development & Communications Intern will support the Project Director in achieving our project’s development, PR, marketing, and communications goals.
Spring 2025 Legal Intern – Free to Be Youth Project
FYP seeks applicants for a semester internship/externship for Spring 2024.
Social Worker – Mental Health Project
The Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project (MHP) seeks a social worker with strong advocacy skills to work with clients with mental health concerns on our interdisciplinary team.
Disability Advocate – Mental Health Project
The Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project (MHP) seeks a disability advocate to assist and represent clients with mental health concerns on federal disability benefit claims (SSI/SSDI) on our interdisciplinary team.
Welfare Rights Organizer – Safety Net Project
SNP seeks applicants for a Welfare Rights Organizer position which will focus on organizing with SNP’s member-base of public benefits and welfare recipients, known as the Safety Net Activists (“SNA”).
Housing Director – Safety Net Project
The Housing Director’s role is to lead SNP’s landlord/tenant legal services and ensure that SNP’s housing staff receive high quality support and supervision, while maintaining the resources SNP needs to sustain a quality high-volume litigation practice.
Legal interns and Volunteers – Safety Net Project
The Safety Net Project offers internships and volunteer opportunities at our Lower Manhattan offices on a rolling basis. We welcome law students, prospective legal fellows, and legal volunteers who would like to help further our efforts to minimize evictions and ensure tenants obtain necessary repairs to their buildings and apartments.
Volunteer – Street Vendor Project
On one Saturday each month, a group of SVP volunteers get together to walk the streets and do outreach and recruitment. Apart from Saturday outreach, our teams of volunteers, students, interns and others help planning meetings, shooting videos, making phone calls, writing legal briefs, and doing all kinds of other stuff.
Transparency in Coverage Rule Disclosure:
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This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.
Page last updated on October 1st, 2024.
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