cedp
Appellate Program Supervisor
Denver, Colorado, United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
RESTCommunicationCollaborationMicrosoft Office
About the role
- Launched in 2020 as the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, our organization was formed to keep our neighbors housed during the pandemic.
- Working with clients, we built a deeply integrative approach to eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness prevention that centers the legal and financial needs of housing-insecure families and uses a variety of tools to keep them housed.
- Our team now serves more than 1,000 people per month, bringing together housing lawyers, economists, data analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to serve our clients.
Responsibilities
- Create the appellate strategy and framework for the law firm to ensure long-term strategic impact
- Refine and develop appellate policies and procedures
- Assist with staff training and onboarding, substantive skills development, and professional development and growth with support from the Directors of Tenant Legal Services and Homeowner Legal Services
- The appellate specialist will be responsible for handling their caseload primarily on their own but may work on cases with other attorneys at the trial level to prepare cases for appeal.
- We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive.
- Similar to CEDP's work on rental housing, these efforts offer a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy.
Requirements
- 3+ years' experience as a housing attorney in Colorado
- Experience with trial and appellate litigation, including appeals to the Colorado Court of Appeals and Colorado Supreme Court
- Affirmative litigation experience in housing law
- Experience working in a legal aid/legal services/non-profit environment
- Knowledge of MS Office suite, CLIO, Google Suite, Adobe Acrobat desired
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis but must be received by July 17th, 2026
- As in-person work is required, all employees at CEDP & CED Law are expected to maintain current vaccination status in keeping with CDC recommendations.
Compensation
- A competitive annual salary of $90,000
- Employees who utilize two languages or more at work are eligible for a $2,000 salary differential per year added to the salary grade listed above.
Benefits
- We partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity.
- The position includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), and 401(k).
- All employees receive a technology stipend of $720 per year
Company info
- We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth.
- Our Organization
- The Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) is a Colorado-based nonprofit.
- We have served more than 68,000 low-income Coloradans across 54 counties, distributing more than $280 million in emergency assistance.
- We have also contributed to the passage of major legislation to prevent eviction, stop economic abuse, and make credit and life-saving medication cheaper.
- CEDP's model has been cited as a best practice by the White House and HUD in 2022-2023, think tanks like the Urban Institute, and in the media.
- Building on our work to stop evictions, CEDP has further expanded its integrated services model to include disaster response, predatory towing, debt collection, benefit access & navigation, long-term rental assistance, and homelessness response.
- More about the Appellate Specialist Role:
Equal opportunity
- CEDP is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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