Administration & Support Openings
To be considered for any of the positions listed below, please apply by clicking on the Apply Now button within the position page. You will need to upload a cover letter, resume and list of references. Candidates should include in the application materials reference to all prior work experience relevant to the position that they are seeking to aid with the placement on TRLA’s salary scale.
AUSTIN
$40840 - $54320 / year
The Community Education Outreach Specialist will support BASTA’s frontline community education efforts including materials development, adaptation, and organization, as well as workshop co-facilitation and community tabling. The Outreach Specialist will also take the lead on eviction-specific outreach activities, including responding to incoming eviction-related inquiries as a result of our Eviction Notification System and conducting flyering at “high evictor” and bad actor properties in Travis County to share tenant rights information. The Outreach Specialist will be crucial to ensuring that the lived experience of tenants guides BASTA’s work and advocacy strategies. The successful candidate thrives in engaging others, can find laughter and light even in hard situations, sees the importance of meeting people where they’re at, and believes that “knowledge is power.”
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Posted 5/31/2024AUSTIN
$70000 - $80000 / year
The Director of Community Education and Arts Advocacy plays a crucial role on the BASTA leadership team, bridging the gap between the policy/legal services and tenant outreach sides of our work and ensuring that tenants rights information is available to Austin renters in accessible and creative formats. The Director will develop and build out our tenant-centered community education and arts advocacy program. The person in this role will ensure that the lived experience of tenants grounds BASTA education efforts, while drawing clear, accessible, and engaging connections for tenants and organizers between their everyday experiences and the legal structures in Texas that shape the lives of renters.
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Posted 5/31/2024SAN ANTONIO
$39840 - $53230 / year
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) seeks a bilingual paralegal to provide support to domestic violence/family law attorneys litigating in state court. The paralegal will conduct trauma informed intakes for survivors of family violence, draft pleadings, discovery, and correspondence, maintain case files, and communicate with courts, counsel, and clients. In this position, the paralegal will work closely with attorneys, social workers, and other staff to provide quality legal assistance to survivors of family violence, stalking, and sexual assault. TRLA is looking for candidates with a strong work ethic, a passion for mission-driven work, and a commitment to addressing the needs of marginalized communities.
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Posted 5/29/2024TRLA SERVICE AREA
$58000 - $70000 / year
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) seeks a Grants Manager to join our Grants Team.
The Grants Manager will assist in leading the Grants Management Team, which will manage grants through their post-award lifecycle and ensure the proper management of and due diligence for all Federal, State, Local, and Foundation grants and contracts.
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Posted 5/16/2024TRLA SERVICE AREA
$54260 - $65590 / year
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) seeks an Assistant Grants Manager to join our Grants Team.
The Assistant Grants Manager assists the Grants Manager with the submission of grant reports, ensuring that TRLA is in compliance with requirements of its funders.
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Posted 4/30/2024MERCEDES
$70000 -$85000 / year
The TRLA Assistant Director of Human Resources works under the direct supervision of the Director of Human Resources. This role will be responsible for assisting with and supervising all aspects of Human Resources, including labor relations, recruitment, benefits, training, employee relations, Safety & Worker’s Compensation, and liability prevention and legal compliance.
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Posted 1/18/2024AUSTIN
The Research and Policy Director will play a crucial role in supporting BASTA’s work to create a more equitable housing landscape by lending policy analysis and expertise to support the development and implementation of campaigns. This new position will work collaboratively with the Project Director and the rest of the BASTA team to build out BASTA’s policy program, ensuring that it is responsive to and informed by tenant experiences and needs This role requires an individual with expertise in policy research and housing issues who is a dynamic and persuasive oral and written communicator. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who enjoys the iterative process of making complex information accessible; likes wrestling with seemingly-intractable problems; and whose combination of insatiable curiosity, tenacity, and fastidiousness brings the depth of knowledge needed to tailor meaningful solutions.
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Posted 11/1/2023SAN ANTONIO
$39840 - $53230 / year
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) seeks a paralegal to work with our Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) project in San Antonio. Our MLP is an exciting opportunity to work with medical professionals to improve the health and well-being of low-income families. The MLP is based on a national medical-legal partnership model which places lawyers in a clinical setting to facilitate the provision of legal services crucial to vulnerable patient-families. MLP model takes a holistic approach to help families to overcome some social determinants that can harm their health. Some of the MLP’s priority areas will include, but not be exclusively, education, public benefits, and housing.
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Posted 9/26/2023SAN ANTONIO
$39840 - $53230 / year
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid seeks a full-time Paralegal A in San Antonio, Texas to work with clients to address issues important to the community and the surrounding TRLA service area including, but not limited to: government benefit issues, and various veterans assistance issues.
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Posted 5/13/2023 CORPUS CHRISTI - SAN ANTONIO - SINTON - RGV
$40840 - $54230 / year
TRLA’s Public Benefits Team represents clients in administrative proceedings before the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Updated 9/22/2023