Executive Director, Mayor’s Office of Pro Bono Legal Assistance
At a glance
New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD)
Full-time
Manhattan, NY, US
23 July 2025
Key responsibilities
The Mayor’s Office is recruiting for an Executive Director to facilitate Pro Bono Legal Assistance to serve as a centralized resource repository to connect New Yorkers who are facing poverty or other socioeconomic challenges, or violations of their constitutional or civil rights, with existing legal and support services they can access, as needed, for pro bono representation. Rather than directly providing legal representation. The Executive Director will lead a unit that will serve as an information hub that streamlines access to pro bono attorneys in the private sector, law school clinics, non-for-profit legal services organizations, and government programs and agencies. Given the vast array of services available throughout The City of New York, this initiative seeks to facilitate accessibility, visibility, and coordination and serve as a resource to match New Yorkers unable to afford counsel with pro bono legal services available to handle the types of cases in which they need legal representation.
The Successful Candidate
Admission to the New York State Bar; and four years of recent full-time responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys, in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or performing highly complex and significant legal work.
Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.