Senior Project Manager

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center is Hiring! Senior Project Manager San Francisco, Southern California, or Central Valley

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is seeking a full‑time Senior Project Manager based in our San Francisco office. Alternatively, candidates in the Southern California or Central Valley area will be considered. This is an exempt position that reports to the Directing Attorney. This position is supported by a grant, and continuing employment might be impacted by the availability of future funding.

The ILRC currently has a hybrid work model requiring two in‑office days per week.

The ILRC is a leading immigrant rights organization headquartered in San Francisco with staff in Washington, D.C., Texas, Southern California, the Central Valley of California, and Washington state. Since 1979, our mission has been to educate, support, and empower immigrants, community organizations, and legal practitioners to build a more just, inclusive, and democratic society. Our team is passionate, collaborative, and committed to equity and innovation in all we do.

Additional information about our organizational values is available here.

This position offers an opportunity to join a mission‑driven team dedicated to strengthening California‑based projects that advance legal, outreach, and social services for immigrant families. The ideal candidate will oversee implementation, compliance, and reporting across several projects advancing immigrant rights. This includes supervising project staff, coordinating efforts of multiple internal departments on implementation, and engaging with external partners, funders and state agencies.

The Senior Project Manager’s primary goals are to ensure overall management of projects for which the ILRC serves as Program Administrator. The Senior Project Manager will lead at least one large project as well as oversee, coordinate, and track effective administration and coordination across multiple projects. The specific duties of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Manage program administration
• Monitor and ensure necessary project progress in close coordination with respective project teams and ILRC programs
• Ensure internal ILRC coordination of various project components as well as alignment across ILRC programs and with other relevant ILRC projects.
• Develop and strengthen internal systems to improve efficiency, transparency, communication, and collaboration
• Supervise project staff and provide professional development support and relevant tools
• Plan and contribute to strategic planning discussions to ensure projects are responsive, leverage resources effectively, and are poised to grow
• Participate in regular remote and in‑person team, funder, partner, and stakeholder meetings
• Maintain current understanding of project goals and initiatives, focus areas, successes, and overall results to communicate to partners and funders effectively
• Identify opportunities to engage ILRC programmatic staff and facilitate collaboration across internal teams

• Work collaboratively with finance, grants, and administrative teams to ensure systems to execute timely subgrantee agreements and payments
• Provide analysis and oversight of subgranting process and budget, including partner expense reports and payments
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and consultants to support the design and effectiveness of reporting portals
• Oversee the collection of data, drafting of findings, and timely submission of reports to funders
• Serve as liaison for communicating data and findings to funders and internal ILRC teams, including best practices and trends identified

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