Project Coordinator
Montana Legal Services Association
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Billings • Montana • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $56,000 - $62,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead day-to-day operations of the CJW Project across multiple counties and tribal reservations.
- Develop, refine, and manage project workflows, timelines, and deliverables consistent with MLSA’s strategic goals and grant obligations.
- Coordinate pilot phases for Medicaid Appeals representation and simple housing and consumer law matters, as well as working with the Domestic Violence CJW Project Coordinator.
- Maintain compliance with Montana Supreme Court certification requirements, Rule 14 modifications, and all program-specific practice limitations.
- Recruit community partner staff, tribal lay advocates, and other community members to serve as CJWs.
- Coordinate curriculum development with appropriate experts.
- Organize the delivery of training programs covering: Client confidentiality and ethics, Conflicts of interest avoidance, Professional conduct obligations, etc.
- Administer certification processes, including tracking training completion, simulation evaluations, and certification exams.
- Maintain and update training materials, manuals, and evaluation tools.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for active CJWs across the state.
- Monitor caseloads and ensure CJWs are operating within authorized practice areas.
- Represent MLSA and the CJW Project at meetings, conferences, task forces, and public presentations.
- Collect data on training, certification, cases handled, client demographics, and program outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree; equivalent professional experience will be considered.
- Experience working with low-income clients.
- Demonstrated commitment to access to justice, community-based advocacy, or the high quality delivery of legal services.
- Strong program coordination, project management, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse partners including courts, tribal communities, advocacy organizations, and legal professionals.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working collaboratively and empathetically with diverse groups of colleagues and clients who have varying cultural backgrounds, perspectives, experience, and expertise.
- Comfort with data tracking, reporting, and documentation.
- Ability to travel, occasionally overnight.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project managementdata trackingreportingdocumentationcurriculum developmenttraining administrationcertification processescase monitoringworkflow managementcompliance maintenance
Soft skills
program coordinationorganizational skillscollaborationcommunicationempathycommitment to access to justiceadvocacyprofessional conductclient confidentialityconflict resolution
Certifications
Montana Supreme Court certificationRule 14 compliance