Careers

REPORTS TO: Director of Legal Services
FLSA STATUS: Dependant Upon Advanced Legal Degree
POSTING DATE: April 16, 2024
PRIORITY APPLICATION DATE: May 17, 2024
 

ABOUT DISABILITY LAW COLORADO
Disability Law Colorado (“DLC”) is a statewide, nonprofit legal organization dedicated to advancing the rights of Coloradans with disabilities. DLC works to achieve fairness and justice, through advocacy, legal action, education, and outreach. As Colorado’s designated Protection and Advocacy System (P&A), we use our federal authority to serve clients with disabilities—everywhere from nursing homes to prisons, schools to voting booths. For more information about DLC, please visit: http://www.disabilitylawco.org.
 

POSITION OVERVIEW
A primary purpose of Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agencies is to go into the places where people with disabilities live and/or are served to identify abuse and neglect. As the designated P&A for Colorado, we have unique and extensive access authority. The Investigations and Monitoring Coordinator (Coordinator) is vital to coordinating and supervising DLC’s important work in this area, shaping the future of our investigations and monitoring plans statewide, and asserting our access authority.
 

POSITION OVERVIEW
The Investigations and Monitoring Coordinator reports directly to the Director of Legal Services. The Investigations and Monitoring Coordinator is expected to work collaboratively across the organization, especially with team leaders.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
The following duties are an overview of the primary duties and responsibilities of the Investigations and Monitoring Coordinator and should not be considered an all-inclusive list:

• Works with others to develop investigation and monitoring plans.
• Coordinates and manages the implementation of investigation and monitoring plans and activities.
• Writes letters to gain access to monitor facilities and negotiates issues relating to access.
• Conducts and coordinates abuse and neglect investigations, including death investigations.
• Writes investigation reports, and writes and sends results including recommendations to the subjects of investigations.
• Coordinates and conducts onsite monitoring visits to look for evidence of abuse, neglect, or other legal rights violations of individuals with disabilities. The onsite monitoring visits will involve travel around the state and monitoring facilities and service providers that include jails, prisons, state hospitals, Division of Youth Services facilities, youth residential facilities, group homes, regional centers, host homes, nursing homes, voting polling places and other places where people with disabilities are served.
• Writes follow-letters to subjects of monitoring including any recommendations.
• Performs other duties, as assigned by the Director of Legal Services.

   

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The individual must also possess these qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in a related area (i.e. investigations, social work, or community outreach). 
• Experience in coordinating work with members of a team.
• Ability to work independently in a hybrid or remote environment, as well as under general supervision and on a team.
• Ability to work across teams.
• Ability and flexibility to travel throughout the state and work nonstandard hours, as needed for monitoring, investigations, advocacy, and other duties.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
The following qualifications are highly desired to advance DLC’s work, but they are not required:

• Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from an accredited law school.
• Bilingual or multilingual.
• Experience working with individuals with disabilities.
• Familiarity with relevant systems, including jails, prisons, state hospitals, nursing homes, regional centers, Community Centered Boards, special education, Medicaid, guardianship, group homes, and/or host homes.
• Experience working on federal grants.
• Experience conducting investigations.

   

WORK ENVIRONMENT
Applicants for this position must live in Colorado or be willing to relocate to Colorado before they begin the position.

DLC is promoting a mostly remote work environment to increase DLC’s presence and staffing statewide, with the understanding that employees will travel and meet in person as needed for conducting their job functions and collaborating with other staff members, the Board, clients, and partners. (DLC currently has office space in Denver, which is available, but not required, for employees’ use.) DLC provides equipment to employees to work successfully in a remote environment, including, but not limited to, laptops and phones. Due to the nature of investigations and monitoring, the Investigations and Monitoring Coordinator might experience frequent periods of travel, however, and should expect a more hybrid work experience.

DLC provides reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their jobs and participate in the recruitment and interview processes. For support with the application process, please contact Esther Brieno at ebrieno@disabilitylawco.org. 

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The hiring range for this position is $62,000-88,000 annually full-time (36 hours/week), depending on experience. (For reference, $75,000 represents DLC’s salary for people with 5 years of experience in a similar position.  Additional consideration may be given for individuals who meet the preferred qualifications.) Disability Law Colorado offers competitive salaries; generous leave; and an excellent benefits package, which includes a 403(b)-retirement savings plan and medical, dental, vision, life, and short term and long-term disability insurance. DLC employees also enjoy a 36-hour workweek as full-time employment, as well as flexible hours.
 

APPLICATION PROCESS
We encourage candidates with disabilities and others with lived experience and diverse backgrounds to apply. We also encourage people who live outside of the Denver metro area to apply.

Candidates should submit a cover letter, outlining their interest and qualifications, along with their resume to Esther Brieno at ebrieno@disabilitylawco.org by May 17, 2024 with the subject line: Investigations and Monitoring Coordinator Application, for priority consideration. Candidates wishing to mail or fax their materials, instead, may send them to:

Esther Brieno, Operations Manager
Disability Law Colorado
455 Sherman Street, Suite 130
Denver, CO  80203
FAX: (303) 722-0720 

Disability Law Colorado is committed to providing a work environment that is free of unlawful discrimination and unlawful harassment. Disability Law Colorado’s policy prohibits harassment and discrimination based on age (40 & over); ancestry; national origin or ethnicity; citizenship; immigration status; race; color; hair style or hair texture; marital, registered domestic partner or civil union status; pregnancy and perceived pregnancy (including breastfeeding or related medical conditions); religion; sex; gender, gender identity or expression; sexual orientation or an employer’s perception thereof; wage disclosures; lawful off-duty, off-premises activities; because the person is a victim of a crime, domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking; military or veterans' status; physical or mental disability; family or medical care leave status; or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance or regulation. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.