Paladin’s admin tools enable you to create, share, and manage available pro bono opportunities in one centralized place.
Creating Pro Bono Opportunities in Paladin
Select “+New Pro Bono Opportunity” to open the opportunity form.
Now you can create a new opportunity!
Enter a descriptive, concise and clear name for the opportunity. We do not recommend including or sharing personal identifying information in the opportunity title or description.
Outline the opportunity in further detail using the “Description”. This will form the primary content of the opportunity listing and should replace the current step in your workflow of creating an email, case digest, word document etc. You can then circulate this more broadly, and manage one record that is updated in real time.
Use the “Referring Organization” drop down menu to select which organization you are inputting this opportunity on behalf of.
Select the type of engagement. You can choose from Fixed Time Commitment, Litigation, Policy Advocacy & Research, Training and Education and Transactional.
Categorize the opportunity by Practice Area and Community Served. You must select at least one, and up to four in each category. Attorneys can browse, sort and filter by these tags on the internal database. Ensuring you tag opportunities correctly increases visibility, leading to higher engagement.
Training & Experience Details: This information helps a potential volunteer assess the fit of the opportunity. Enter any training provided or required, language requirements, as well as any specific skills a volunteer might develop. Potential volunteers are especially interested in understanding the time commitment involved.
6. Opportunities will remain available for volunteers to express interest in until they either expire or are manually set as “not recruiting”. Select a date for the opportunity to stop recruiting, up to 6 months in the future.
Publishing Opportunities
Once you've entered all relevant information, you will see a drop-down list of your respective “teams” (typically, the relevant office locations) as the final option on the form.
Select the teams you would like to have access to the listing. Only those teams selected will be able to view the opportunity and express interest.
Once you select “publish,” the opportunity will immediately be available to those teams. It will remain available until it either expires (if you have entered an expiration date) or you manually “stop recruiting” – effectively removing the listing from circulation wherever it has been published. You can do this at any point.
