Attorney 1 /REDMOND, WA (Remote)- 7 Months Contract

Attorney 1

Location: REDMOND, WA (Remote)

Required Skills Job Description

Candidate Location Requirements: Remote, REDW-D

If hybrid, # of days contractor will be required to work onsite: 5 days a week onsite

Daily Schedule & OT estimate: M-F, Standard core hours, 5 OT

Chance for Extension (Y/N): Yes

Equipment or Software Required: Suppliers to provide the laptop, mouse, headset, and 2 computer monitors.

Attestation Required/Type (if applicable): No.

Motivators for this need: This role has been opened due to net new position and finding someone with the right skillset is the most important.

Typical Day in the Role

Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to work on employment-based immigration.

Key projects: This role will contribute to supporting high volume U.S. business immigration operations including petition review, I-9, e-mail response support, and ensuring legal compliance with daily filings.

Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of:

• Use U.S. immigration legal knowledge to ensure daily workflow targets are completed and maintain integrity of the onsite case preparation program.
• Train admins on USCIS filings, USCIS document processing, and PERM job postings, assist with daily admin questions, and review work product to ensure legal accuracy and quality.
• Assist with root cause analysis and resolution for legal and operational issues.
• Identify and propose legal process improvement ideas to increase legal quality, improve employee experience, streamline workflow, and build operational resiliency.
• Complete remote and onsite legal review of filings.
• Address legal questions that arise related to I-9 completion and E-Verify.
• Support complex E-Verify issue resolution.
• Train and monitor admins who support I-9 reverification.
• Assist managers with understanding PERM requirements and obligations during applicant review
• Respond to emails from visa dependent employees on topics including visa and green card eligibility, travel, and maintenance of status.

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition

What makes this role interesting? This role provides the opportunity to have broader business immigration experience.

Unique Selling Points: The team is cutting edge on their operations piece of immigration. Will gain experience in how to manage to that high-volume and how to structure.

Candidate Requirements

Years of Experience Required – 1+ overall years of experience in the field.

Degrees or certifications required – Juris Doctor (JD), a Law Degree from a credible university and admission to the bar degree is required to be eligible for this role.

Disqualifiers - Candidates that do not have main requirements will not be eligible for the role.

Best vs. Average – The ideal resume would contain a high-volume experience.

Performance Indicators – Performance will be assessed based on Errors and speed.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

• 1+ Year of Immigration experience (some sort) – Business would be great, but they need to have something even if its family based.
• JD degree
• NA – Must have the first two.

Hard Skills Assessments

Expected Dates that Hard Skills Assessments will be scheduled: ASAP.

Hard Skills Assessment Process: The assessment process will include 1 round.

Required Candidate Preparation: N/A

Summary: The main function of an Attorney is to research legal precedent, investigating facts, or preparing legal documents. A typical Attorney is responsible for conducting research to support a legal proceeding, formulate a defense or to initiate legal action. Review of non-immigrant and immigrant visa filings. Require a Law Degree from a credible university and admission to the bar. 1 plus year of immigration experience, preferably in employment-based immigration, but will also accept family-based immigration experience. Normal rhythm of business with petition review. Coming into a busy time of the year based on volume increase.