Executive Director

Oregon Law Center (OLC) seeks an Executive Director to lead and advance the mission of this highly regarded statewide nonprofit civil legal aid organization.

Minimum Requirements: To be eligible, the candidate must have a JD and a license to practice law in Oregon, or commit to join the Oregon State Bar within a reasonable time. Candidates must also have exhibited an enduring commitment to justice for low-income clients.

Preferred Qualifications: In addition, OLC prefers a candidate with the best possible mix of experience and the demonstrated capacity to add to the candidate’s skills once hired with respect to the following fundamental characteristics, skills, capabilities, and expectations: • Continuously exhibits passionate mission-centric leadership. • Committed to reinforcing and deepening OLC’s emphasis on helping clients whose pursuit of justice is impaired by racism, poverty, or discriminatory practices. • Committed to reinforcing and deepening OLC’s emphasis on creating the respectful, inclusive, and diverse workplace that is best suited to provide service to all of OLC’s clients. • Aptitude for managing a complex budget in an organization fueled by multiple funding sources. • Effectively and respectfully engaging OLC’s essential partners and collaborators, including clients and low-income communities, Legal Aid Services of Oregon, the Campaign for Equal Justice, funders such as the Oregon State Legislature and public interest grantors, and the members and leadership of the Oregon Law Center Workers Union. • Broad experience in the practice of law, experience with a range of lawyering skills, and knowledge of poverty law across substantive areas. • Experience managing and supervising the employees of a large organization delivering legal services to clients. • Consistently exhibits professionalism, integrity, hard work, respect, empathy, humor, intellectual agility, creativity, and calmness

The successful candidate will join an organization with top-notch staff, including a strong central management team, an engaged Board, deep support within the Oregon State Bar and Oregon State Judiciary, stable financing, as well as excellent relations with state and local governmental and non-governmental organizations thereby maximizing the effectiveness of OLC. OLC staff are diverse, collegial and talented professionals, resolute in their commitment to OLC’s mission and to an inclusive and
respectful workplace in which differences are acknowledged and valued. The Board is committed to helping the newly-hired candidate marshal the administrative and executive support required to be successful in this challenging but deeply rewarding position.

$125,000-150,000 annually