Changing Lives Every Day
Our mission is to bring hope, dignity, and justice to underserved Iowans through legal services and advocacy. Join us in breaking down barriers and ensuring equal access to justice for all.
Why Work Here?
See your impact.
Your work directly impacts people’s basic needs like safety, income, and housing. You’ll see individual lives transformed and contribute to systemic changes that benefit entire communities.
Fast-track your growth.
Gain hands-on litigation practice and tackle challenging projects. You’ll get real-world experience early on, with support from experienced attorneys and staff.
Prioritize your well-being.
Enjoy generous paid time off, great benefits, and a culture that values work-life balance. We care about preventing burnout, and many team members have been with us for years or decades.
“I’m a firm believer in second chances and giving people the tools they need to become successful — removing barriers that are unjust and shouldn’t be there. I enjoy working at Iowa Legal Aid because I like helping people and doing work that’s fulfilling.”
Arianna Eddy
Managing Attorney
“The community of people who work for Iowa Legal Aid are just really wonderful, caring people.”
Danielle Huffman
Office Manager
Open Positions
Assistant Litigation Director
Iowa Legal Aid seeks an Assistant Litigation Director to help lead the organization’s statewide program of litigation and legal advocacy. This is an executive level position, working under the supervision of the Director of Litigation & Advocacy to ensure Iowa Legal Aid continues to provide the highest possible quality of civil legal assistance to low-income Iowans.
Staff Attorney - Community Schools Project
Iowa Legal Aid seek an attorney to join our Council Bluffs office to help grow our Community Schools Project and to support other important work in our regional offices. Duties may be split between these two roles. For the schools project, contingent on funding, the Staff Attorney will join our existing team and will have the opportunity to provide a broad range of direct legal services through school-based clinics.
Staff Attorney
Job Location: Various offices
Iowa Legal Aid is recruiting Staff Attorneys. Through free legal assistance and community legal education, Staff Attorneys bring hope, dignity, and justice to low-income and other vulnerable Iowans. Legal assistance at Iowa Legal Aid ranges from advice and brief service to full representation before administrative agencies and state and federal trial and appellate courts.
Staff Attorney - Farmworker Rights Project
Iowa Legal Aid’s Farmworker Rights Project is recruiting a staff attorney. This statewide position will focus primarily on labor and employment issues faced by migrants, seasonal farmworkers, and temporary agricultural workers in Iowa under the H-2A visa program. Through outreach, education, and direct representation, our dynamic and collaborative farmworker rights team advocates for agricultural workers as they experience challenges related to low wages, workplace safety issues, substandard housing, sexual harassment and discrimination, and labor trafficking.
AmeriCorps Justice Intern
AmeriCorps Justice Interns get the opportunity to work on projects from a broad range of legal areas, including ensuring housing stability, helping victims of domestic and sexual abuse secure safety and independence, protecting consumers from scams and identity theft, and safeguarding access to basic income, food, disability, and health benefits.
AmeriCorps Member
Individual AmeriCorps members will participate in various tasks that can include: helping seniors, veterans, people with disabilities and other low-income Iowans get free legal help; enhancing the unified client intake system; increasing outreach to underserved Iowans; advancing self-help legal education; recruiting and managing volunteers; improving volunteer management practices; connecting low-income and elderly Iowans to financial/social supports; enhancing Iowa Legal Aid’s website.
Paralegal/ Case Manager - Community Schools Project
Iowa Legal Aid seeks applicants for paralegal/case manager positions in our Council Bluffs and Waterloo offices. This position will support the anticipated future expansion of our Community Schools Project in those cities.
Grant Writer
Iowa Legal Aid is recruiting a grant writer. The grant writer will: write persuasive, error-free grant applications; compile data and write grant reports in coordination with development and finance teams; conduct research to ensure applications and reports are strategic and aligned with funder interests and requirements; utilize grant team resources (database, tracking calendar/tickler system, text library, document management system) to organize work and effectively and efficiently meet deadlines; and work with finance team to develop grant budgets and billings.
Rural Outreach Coordinator /Paralegal
Iowa Legal Aid is recruiting a Rural Outreach Project Coordinator/ paralegal, based in our Council Bluffs office. Full-time paralegal responsible for supporting the creation and execution of an outreach plan to promote legal clinics in southwest Iowa with the goal of expanding access to justice in rural counties, including “legal deserts.”
Staff Attorney - Rural Outreach Project
Iowa Legal Aid is recruiting two staff attorneys for our Rural Outreach Project, based in our Council Bluffs office. The Rural Outreach Project is designed to expand access to justice in rural areas of southwest Iowa, including “legal deserts.”
Your Impact at Iowa Legal Aid
You give more Iowans access to justice.
Your work helps us create a state where income doesn’t determine your outcome.
You give underserved people a voice.
Your advocacy amplifies the voices of people who are often overlooked.
You give people hope for a better future.
You’ll help clients overcome legal challenges and set a foundation for long-term stability.
Join Our Team
Let’s work together to build an Iowa where there is equal access to justice for all.