[Hamp-law] Medical-Legal Program Coordinator Job/ Boston

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Program Coordinator


Salary: Depends on experience. Includes a competitive benefits package
Education: Bachelor (BA, BS, etc.)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, United States
Posted by: Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston
Job Category: Administration, Communications, Event planning
Sector: Nonprofit
Last day to apply: February 19, 2010
Last updated: February 5, 2010
Type: Full time
Language(s): English
Job posted on: February 5, 2010
Area of Focus: Health and Medicine, Housing and Homelessness,
Immigration, Law and Legal Assistance, Poverty and Hunger


Description:
The Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston (MLP | Boston) allies health care
providers with lawyers to improve the health and well-being of
vulnerable populations. Combining the strengths of law and medicine, MLP
| Boston ensures that patients’ basic needs – for housing, food,
education, health care and personal and family stability – are met. MLP
| Boston currently provides services at Boston Medical Center and six
affiliated community health centers.

MLP | Boston’s staff and consultants (including doctors, lawyers and
paralegals) engage in three primary activities in support of the mission:

1. Direct Legal Assistance: Advocacy services for low-income
patient-families relating to income supports, housing and utilities,
education law, immigration and more.
2. Internal Systems Change: Development and delivery of trainings and
tools that assist health care professionals to screen for unmet advocacy
needs and connect patients with appropriate resources.
3. External Systems Change: Systemic advocacy projects that raise the
clinical voice in policy debates affecting the health and well-being of
vulnerable patient populations.

MLP | Boston also is the Founding Site of a national MLP network that
now numbers over 80. We are the primary laboratory for MLP innovation
and provide substantial technical assistance to the national MLP Network
and the growing Massachusetts MLP Network.

The Program Coordinator:

• Provides administrative and other support on all MLP | Boston team
operations
• Focuses on areas including but not limited to:
-Supporting coordination of the Massachusetts MLP Network, including an
annual conference
-Supporting grant management (proposal and reporting) processes
-Supporting communications activities, including but not limited to
maintenance of the MLP | Boston website and various contacts databases
-Supporting integration of new employees, volunteers, and interns
-Coordinating the program’s interface with various hospital departments
-Meeting and event coordination
-Work space management
• Is directly supervised by MLP | Boston’s Executive Director

Additional Qualifications:
Qualified candidates should have:
*Excellent written and oral communication skills;
*Stellar organizational skills;
*Experience with website and database management;
*Fluency in Microsoft Office;
*Commitment to working with low-income, immigrant communities;
*Ability to manage multiple tasks and work independently;
*Attention to detail and creativity; and
*Demonstrated interest in working in the public interest sector

Bicultural preferred

How to Apply:
Please send a cover letter and resume to Samantha Morton, MLP | Boston's
Executive Director, at mlpboston at gmail.com.

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