Auditing Project Lead jobs in Denver, CO

Launched in 2020 as the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, CEDP was formed to keep our neighbors housed during the pandemic. Working with clients, we built a “continuum care” approach to eviction 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 1,200 households per month. CEDP brings together housing lawyers, economists, data analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to serve our clients, distributing between $7M and $10M of assistance each month. Our model has been cited as a best practice by the White House, HUD, the Urban Institute, and in the media.

In recent months, CEDP has further expanded its integrated services model to include mortgage foreclosure, predatory towing, and debt collection. 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. To further improve financial access for clients, CEDP will be launching a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) in the months ahead, allowing the organization to offer affordable financial services to clients alongside its current suite of benefits and services.

More about the Lead Designer

The Lead Designer will found and lead CEDP’s Community Access Lab, developing tools and technologies that improve people’s access to benefits and the legal system.

In This Role You Will

Launch and lead an interdisciplinary Community Access Lab to develop technology tools using user-centered design principles.

Develop a creative curriculum that excites and motivates the Team and all of CEDP about new technologies by communicating successes and opportunities to increase access to justice.

Engage in creative problem-solving around identified problems, by researching, designing, prototyping, testing, improving, and refining original digital solutions. These digital solutions will be built on a variety of no-code platforms, including Neota Logic, Joseflegal and Lawdroid.

Publicly communicate and demonstrate an understanding of how design decisions impact marginalized communities

Publicly communicate ways to develop and embrace product and process innovations to scale scarce resources and to improve access to justice.

Develop and communicate a comprehensive go-to-market strategy to deploy the technology tools into the hands of those who need them most, sensitively addressing possible barriers to adoption and community concerns.

Publicly evangelize the Community Access Lab's successes as a way to increase access to justice.

Requirements:

JD required

Demonstrated passion for social and racial justice

3 years experience in housing, bankruptcy, or consumer protection law

Experience managing diverse, medium-sized teams

Strong desire to center client and community needs

Excellent interpersonal communication skills

Ability to successfully work primarily remotely (home office setup provided by the organization with access to a co-working space in Denver)

Strong organizational abilities

Knowledge of MS Office suite, CLIO, Google Suite desired

Other language skills not required but are a strong plus and eligible for additional stipend

To Apply:

Interested candidates should apply by clicking the button to apply linked on this page.

Equal Opportunity

CEDP (“The Community Firm”) is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Benefits & Compensation:

Salary range is $100-110K per year, based on experience.

Benefits include health, vision, dental, unlimited paid vacation, short-term and long-term disability, and 401K.

As in-person work is sometimes required, all employees are expected to maintain current vaccination status in keeping with CDC recommendations.