Legal Advocate & Data Management Coordinator

NYLPI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 64,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc. (NYLPI) seeks a full-time Legal Advocate and Data Management Coordinator to support NYLPI’s legal work and coordinate data management.

The role combines approximately 70% paralegal and advocacy tasks with 30% data management, including case management systems, reporting, and administrative support. The position is hybrid, in-office in NYC, with some remote Fridays.

Qualifications

• Commitment to NYLPI’s mission and cross-program work.
• Experience providing legal or administrative support.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent writing and analytical abilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently.
• Interpersonal and communications skills.
• Experience with databases and case management systems.
• Spanish language skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal and administrative support to NYLPI’s legal work.
• Assist with research, testimonies, and memos for program work.
• Help prepare for court appearances, depositions, and mediations.
• Support client work by joining meetings and handling logistics.
• Coordinate NYLPI’s work across program areas.
• Maintain SharePoint files and dockets.
• Provide technical assistance, including formatting and spreadsheets.
• Assist with recording requests and data collection tasks.
• Lead implementation of NYLPI’s Language Access Policy and training.
• Attend and support in-person events.

Skills

Attention to detail

Written and verbal communication

Collaborative work

Analytical thinking

Tools

Microsoft 365

Word

Excel

SharePoint

PowerPoint

Copilot

PDF editing

Job description

Legal Advocate & Data Management Coordinator

July 27, 2026

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), a community-driven civil rights organization, seeks a full-time Legal Advocate and Data Management Coordinator.

About the Role

The Legal Advocate and Data Management Coordinator will provide support to NYLPI’s legal work and coordinate the organization’s data management. Approximately 70% of their time will be spent performing paralegal and other advocacy work and assisting with coordination of NYLPI’s program work. The remainder of their time will be spent on data management, including NYLPI’s case management and data collection systems, and providing support as needed to NYLPI’s administration team.

Legal Advocate core duties include:

• Helpwith the preparationof legal documents.
• Assistwith research, testimonies, and memos in support of NYLPI’s program work.
• Participate inpreparations for court appearances, depositions, and mediations.
• Support client workby joiningmeetings,gathering information, and handlinglogistics.
• Support the coordination of NYLPI’s work across program areas.
• HelpmaintainSharePoint files, including dockets.
• Providetechnicalassistance, including proofreading, formatting, and creation of spreadsheets, tables, and graphics.
• Assistwith the preparation and tracking ofrecordrequests.
• Lead implementation of NYLPI’s Language Access Policy, including onboarding and training staff and interns.
• Attend and support in-person events.

Data Management Coordinator core duties include:

• Train staff on case management and data collection systemsand provide ongoing support and consultation.
• Compiledatareportsfor internal tracking, external reporting, and fundraising.
• ManageNYLPI’stimekeepingsystems forbillablelitigationmatters and lobbying.
• Partner with key staff to implement improvements in ourprogrammatic workflow,data collection practices, and compliance systems.
• Partner with other staff members and supervisors to ensure that NYLPI’s systems collect robust information on NYLPI activities and outcomes.

Administrative Team Support includes:

• Coverage, as-needed, of phones, intake, mail, data entry, and in-office support.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Commitment to supporting NYLPI’s mission and work in a role that crosses program areas and demands flexibility and attention to detail.
• Experience providing legal and/or administrative support.
• Experience in project and time management and have organizational skills.
• Excellent analytical and writing skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently.
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft 365 suite, including Word, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Copilot.
• Experience working with databases and data systems, and case management programs, and facilitating colleagues’ work with those systems.
• Ability to learn new technology tools and platforms.
• Ability to relate to and work in meaningful collaboration with a diverse range of clients, community partners, and staff.
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Preferred

• Experience analyzing data within Microsoft Excel, or other software, and running reports with case management systems.
• Experience compiling documents, for example organizing physical documents for mailing and using PDF editing software for electronic conveyance.
• Experience working with nonprofits and individual clients.
• Experience working with GIS mapping.
• Fluency in Spanish strongly preferred.

Salary and Benefits

NYLPI offers a competitive salary based on years of relevant experience. A person in this role with zero to three years of experience would earn $64,000 to $72,000. NYLPI offers comprehensive employer-paid benefits, including health insurance, short- and long-term disability and life insurance, an outstanding retirement savings plan, fifteen (15) days of vacation during the first year of employment, retirement fund matching after one year of employment, and a holiday swapping policy. NYLPI also offers funds for professional development.

NYLPI is a hybrid workplace. This position requires full in-office days Monday through Thursday. Fridays may generally be worked remotely, but in-person presence may be required periodically. Hybrid workplace requirements may change. The person in this role must be based in the New York City area upon starting employment.

We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourage candidates fluent in multiple languages and candidates from historically oppressed groups to apply. We are committed to advancing social justice and civil rights in our advocacy, and we value the dynamism and perspective that staff diversity, equity, and inclusion bring to the work and culture of our organization. We strive to promote behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable us to work inclusively and effectively in cross-cultural situations with clients, co-workers, and community partners. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity and national origin; disability; socioeconomic background; sex, sexual orientation and gender identity; religion; political affiliation; or any other legally protected status. We actively recruit and seek to grow and maintain a diverse staff.

About NYLPI

For 50 years, NYLPI has been a leading civil rights advocate for New Yorkers marginalized by race, immigration status, poverty, neighborhood pollution, and disabilities. NYLPI pioneered the practice of community lawyering in the five boroughs of New York City. These communities shape our priorities, and their struggles for justice demand innovative solutions. Our interdisciplinary teams of advocates use every tool available – community organizing, impact litigation and individual representation, policy advocacy, media, pro bono partnerships, and public education – to solve seemingly intractable problems, develop leaders, and build collective power to achieve justice. We strive to create equal access to health care, achieve equality of opportunity and self-determination for people with disabilities, ensure immigrant opportunity, strengthen local nonprofits, and secure environmental justice for low-income communities of color. Our unique model of partnership with and support from the private bar provides opportunities across all of our program areas to maximize impact. To learn more about NYLPI, visit www.nylpi.org .