Pre Law Fellowship

Position Summary
NMILC seeks Pre-Law Fellowship Proposals for a one-year fellowship to commence in Summer 2025.

The Opportunity

NMILC seeks pre-law fellows who are committed to defending immigrant rights and who want to work in a border state. Now as ever maybe more than ever is the time to defend due process rights and the rule of law for our communities. Like the Freedom Summer following the passage of the 1964 Voting Rights Act we seek committed recent graduates and professionals who will work to support immigration legal screening for all eligible immigrants support rural pro se clinics and mobile clinics around our largely rural state support work in our states three detention centers and support statewide rapid response and deportation defense work. On-the-ground bootcamp training will be provided. We have a strong policy team that works to advance systemic statewide changes. NMILC works in coalition and partnership with power- and movement-building organizations throughout the state. We have three offices in Albuquerque Santa Fe and Las Cruces New Mexico. New Mexico has very strong statewide rights to reproductive freedom and gender affirming healthcare.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Recent college graduate or experienced professional seeking to make a career change to law.
  
• Experience working with children preferably immigrants or experience working with vulnerable populations including asylum seekers survivors of abuse human trafficking or other trauma
• Knowledge of immigration law including humanitarian immigration claims such as Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Asylum U visas and T visas a plus.
• Record of cultural responsiveness and cross-cultural communication skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Spanish.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suites (such as Teams Excel etc.
• Ability to work collaboratively and multi-task in our NMILC environment managing numerous priorities and emerging opportunities
• Excellent organizational skills with ability to work on multiple projects in a deadline-oriented environment. Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate as appropriate.
• Ability to work effectively with people of diverse backgrounds lived experiences and communication styles
• Showing the ability to multi-task and work with a sense of urgency in a dynamic fast paced environment.
• Committed to practicing and supporting wellbeing.
• Experience working successfully and communicating in hybrid and/or remote environments.

Our Salary and Benefits -

This is a full-time position. Starting rate is $20.50/hour.

NMILC currently offers a generous benefits package including:

• 100% of Individual Employee Health Premium paid by NMILC for the Base Plan and 50% for dependents. Buy-up Plan also available.
  
• Optional Flexible Spending Account for pre-tax funds for medical and/or dependent care cost.
• Employer paid life insurance as well as short-term and long-term disability insurance.

NMILC also recognizes the value of creating an environment of positive work/life balance acknowledging that investing in staffs ability to take care of themselves and their families enables them to do their best work. The plan currently includes:

• Flexible work schedule and hybrid remote work options;
• 15 paid vacation days (3 weeks) annually;
• 1 earned sick leave hour for every 30 hours worked;
• Company-paid federal holidays in addition to 2 weeks of winter break 1 week for spring break and 1 week for summer break and other days as established in coordination with the local public school schedule.

Application Instructions:
Applicants will be considered on a rolling basis. Please be advised that a resume 3 references and cover letter including why you are interested in becoming a fellow with NMILC will need to be submitted in order to be considered for the desired role.