Careers
The Urban Justice Center is always looking for people interested in moving social justice forward. See below for opportunities – vacancies are sorted by the name of the Project they are with.
Ongoing Development Interns – Free to Be Youth Project
The Free to Be Youth Project seeks interns for the Development team on an ongoing, semester-to-semester basis.
Ongoing Communications Interns – Free to Be Youth Project
The Free to Be Youth Project seeks interns for the Communications team on an ongoing, semester-to-semester basis.
Ongoing Legal Interns – Free to Be Youth Project
The Free to Be Youth Project seeks interns for their Legal team on an ongoing, semester-to-semester basis.
Director of Social Work – Mental Health Project
The Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project (MHP) seeks a passionate full-time Director of Social Work.
Disability Hearing Appeals Staff Attorney – Mental Health Project
MHP is seeking a staff attorney to represent clients at later stages of appeal before the SSA, including administrative hearings and the possibility of representing clients in federal court appeals.
Disability Appeals Staff Attorney
MHP’s Disability Advocacy Project (DAP) advances the mission by helping clients obtain federal disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
Social Worker – Mental Health Project
The Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project (MHP) seeks a social worker with strong advocacy skills to work with clients with mental health concerns on our interdisciplinary team.
Housing Practice Manager/Managing Attorney – Safety Net Project
The Safety Net Project seeks a Practice Manager/Managing Attorney to work with SNP’s Housing Director to develop, implement and oversee SNP’s systems for practice management, intake, grants and contract compliance, and data management.
Benefits and Homeless Litigation Supervising Attorney
The role of a Benefits and Homeless Litigation Supervising Attorney is to develop and work on impact litigation and direct legal services to advance and protect the rights of homeless New Yorker and public benefits recipients
Housing Staff Attorney – Safety Net Project
The Safety Net Project is seeking housing staff attorneys who are looking for a creative and non-traditional environment.
Housing Director – Safety Net Project
The Housing Director’s role is to lead SNP’s landlord/tenant legal services and ensure that SNP’s housing staff receive high quality support and supervision, while maintaining the resources SNP needs to sustain a quality high-volume litigation practice.
Legal interns and Volunteers – Safety Net Project
The Safety Net Project offers internships and volunteer opportunities at our Lower Manhattan offices on a rolling basis. We welcome law students, prospective legal fellows, and legal volunteers who would like to help further our efforts to minimize evictions and ensure tenants obtain necessary repairs to their buildings and apartments.
Volunteer – Street Vendor Project
On one Saturday each month, a group of SVP volunteers get together to walk the streets and do outreach and recruitment. Apart from Saturday outreach, our teams of volunteers, students, interns and others help planning meetings, shooting videos, making phone calls, writing legal briefs, and doing all kinds of other stuff.
Summer 2025 Communications and Development Intern – Sex Workers Project
The Sex Workers Project is looking seeks a Summer intern/volunteer to help manage our social media, communications and support development and fundraising efforts.
Fall 2025 Bilingual Case Manager Intern – Sex Workers Project
The Sex Workers Project is looking for a bilingual case management intern.
Transparency in Coverage Rule Disclosure:
https://www.cigna.com/legal/compliance/machine-readable-files
This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.
Page last updated on April 14th, 2025.
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