Northern Nevada Legal Aid is in the search for a business-oriented Executive Director to shape, manage and expand a team providing low-cost, top quality legal services to those in need.

Northern Nevada Legal Aid (NNLA) is the oldest provider of legal services and the largest private law office in Northern Nevada serving qualified residents in Washoe County and rural northern Nevada counties. A pillar of the community, NNLA has a distinctive impact on the fair administration of justice across all practice areas and services, which include Housing/Consumer Protection, Immigration, Domestic Violence, Adult Guardianship, Child Advocacy, Senior Law Center, and Civil Law Self-Help Center. In 2023 NNLA’s free legal aid services assisted more than 9,600 individuals and directly represented more than 1,240 protected persons in adult guardianship cases, 1,244 children in foster care, and 86 survivors of domestic violence.

The Executive Director will lead NNLA to: provide legal aid to those who cannot otherwise afford an attorney, reduce barriers to accessing the legal system for society’s most vulnerable; protect rights and promote a fair and just civil society, and increase the number of cases handled by the legal system by decreasing litigant self-representation.

Reporting to the Board, the Executive Director leads and coordinates all staff and provides the overall vision, leadership, management, culture and strategic direction to the organization. NNLA has a center out, customer-serving culture, not a top-down management-by-executive-fiat culture.

The Executive Director will be a friend-raising and fund-raising leader who involves the entire group of professionals in making friends in the community and in fundraising activities that generate various kinds of material and in-kind support. The Executive Director must promulgate professional standards, hold members of the team accountable for providing best-in-class service, build and evolve a cohesive workforce able to row together, have budgeting and financial management acumen, and be able to promote the work of NNLA in Nevada and the USA.

The complete position description can be found here. We appreciate your sharing this announcement with your networks and for your support of Northern Nevada Legal Aid.

For additional information or to apply, please contact Lisa Grossman, Oscar Quiros, or Steven Oppenheim at info[at]moppenheim[dot]com.