The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is seeking a full-time, temporary Project Director to lead and ensure the successful fulfillment of the Ready California project through direct coordination with all statewide and regional partners, outside partners and consultants, and national, statewide and local funders. The purpose of Ready California is to support California not-for-profit institutions and organizations to ensure the maximum number of eligible Californians benefit from DACA and DAPA while strengthening the statewide infrastructure to respond to future immigration reform. The Project Director will report to the ILRC Deputy Director. This is a one year position, renewable depending on funding.
The ILRC is a national nonprofit legal support center located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1979, we specialize in immigration law, policy, and immigrants’ rights. The ILRC is a team-based organization that makes most of its decisions in a collaborative fashion that allows for significant staff input. The organization’s work concentrates on three main program areas: (1) building the capacity of attorneys, paralegals, organizers, service providers, immigrants, and others by providing legal technical assistance, trainings, and publications; (2) assisting immigrants with civic engagement projects to help expand immigrants’ rights and political power; and (3) conducting policy and advocacy work related to immigration law and immigrants’ rights.
This position’s primary focus involves coordination and supervision of the day to day operations of the project; establishment of systems and standards to carry out operations to fulfill goals and priorities; inspiring mutually respectful and cooperative relationships among the collaboration partners; and maintaining a sense of vision, competence and confidence for the ILRC as lead and coordinator of the Ready California project, among other goals. The Project Director will:
Set goals and priorities with the ILRC Executive Director, ILRC Deputy Director and Ready California project team;
Facilitate the development of reasonable and useful reporting and metrics systems to guide the work of Ready California partners toward completion of project goals, encourage innovative practice, promote the sharing of ideas and approaches, and document success;
Manage the ongoing collection of reporting and metrics data from Ready California partners, including supporting partners’ ability to gather and submit data;
Collaborate with organizational leads in each region to gather community-level information and direct coordination between partners;
Analyze partner approaches and metrics data to identify best practices;
Communicate findings internally among the partners and funders, and externally with the field by documenting innovative processes and sharing those learnings with the other partners through site visits, meetings, tool kits, calls, website content, and/or white papers;
Negotiate budget allocations and deliverables and communicate expectations with partners;
Ensure that communication channels among all members of the project collaboration are open, effective, and in use;
Plan and facilitate Ready California partner convenings, meetings, and teleconferences;
Demonstrate leadership-level decision-making and delegation skills; and
Work with the Deputy Director, Executive Director, Board, and staff, to ensure that adequate funding is available to effectively carry out the goals and priorities of the project, and assist with grant proposals and grant reporting.
Qualifications: The following requirements will be expected of the successful applicant:
A bachelor’s degree, or higher, and at least five to eight years of experience in program management and meeting facilitation;
Regular travel throughout the state to Ready California meetings, convenings and regional sites; with occasional national travel for funders meetings and/or conferences;
First-rate leadership and visionary skills, which include the ability to lead and facilitate meetings, persuade others to try new approaches, and the ability to identify future problems and opportunities;
An operational understanding of collaboration and how to inspire in others;
Strong interpersonal skills;
A willingness to exchange ideas and to be flexible as to approaches for carrying out the goals and priorities;
Respect for all co-workers and partner collaborators;
Experience engaging with groups composed of individuals with diverse educational experiences and cultural backgrounds;
Ability to develop, document and communicate project time lines and processes and to manage geographically and organizationally dispersed stakeholders through them;
Work effectively with data and tools for data analysis;
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to write grant reports and proposals, and communicate complex data, findings and ideas clearly to diverse audiences including funders and the general public;
A strong work ethic, including the following qualities: organized, flexible, reliable, goal-oriented, and dependable, with the ability to be an independent worker, and able to handle several projects simultaneously while thriving in a team-based collaborative decision-making environment.
Familiarity with online community technology platforms is preferred.
Salary/Benefits: Pay is commensurate with experience, with a range of $65,000 – $85,000. The ILRC provides competitive salaries, excellent benefits including professional membership dues, health/dental/vision insurance, a flexible spending account for medical and dependent care, vacation, and sick leave. The ILRC sponsors a retirement plan option upon fulfillment of eligibility.
How to apply
Applications: This position will remain open until it is filled. We will consider applications on an ongoing basis beginning immediately. To ensure consideration of your application, please submit a cover letter explaining your qualifications for the position and salary requirement, a resume, two writing samples – one sample that demonstrates project management skills and a second sample that shows relationship correspondence acumen — and the names of three references.
Please send your application to:
Ready CA Project Director Hiring Committees
ILRC
1663 Mission Street, Suite 602
San Francisco, CA 94103
Fax: (415)255-9792 (no calls, please)
The ILRC is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, people of color, persons with disabilities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals to apply.