Senior Project Manager

Immigrant Legal Resource Center•Los Angeles, CA

13d•$125,000 - $140,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is seeking a full-time Senior Project Manager. This position reports to the Directing Attorney and is supported by a grant, with continuing employment potentially impacted by future funding availability. The ILRC operates on a hybrid work model, requiring two in-office days per week. The ILRC is a leading immigrant rights organization dedicated to educating, supporting, and empowering immigrants, community organizations, and legal practitioners. This role offers an opportunity to join a mission-driven team focused on strengthening California-based projects that advance legal, outreach, and social services for immigrant families. The Senior Project Manager will oversee project implementation, compliance, and reporting, supervise project staff, coordinate internal departments, and engage with external partners, funders, and state agencies.

Requirements

Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
Organizational skills
Data analysis skills
Project management skills
High attention to detail
Ability to collaborate effectively
Commitment to advancing the power of immigrant communities
Program management and non-profit experience, preferably related to grants compliance and administration
Experience managing large and complex projects with the ability to take initiative and hold primary responsibility for overall coordination and implementation
Ability to collaborate cross-departmentally
Appreciate working as part of a team
Able to problem solve
Enjoy the initial building phase of a new project
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including strong facilitation skills and presentation skills, report writing skills, and the ability to communicate complex data, findings, and ideas clearly
Advanced aptitude for complex data analysis and experience managing and analyzing large data sets
Advanced Excel skills including usage of and experience creating formulas, graphs and pivot tables as well as some knowledge of data visualization principles and tools
Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 products including Excel, SharePoint, Word and PowerPoint
Experience working in databases
Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of ten years of relevant experience
At least three years of supervisory experience
Passionate about immigrant rights
Able to travel throughout the state of California at least once a month
Support the organization in other duties as assigned

Nice To Haves

Holding a PM certification is a plus
Salesforce experience in particular is a plus
Familiarity with immigration legal services
Previous experience working with or in government agencies

Responsibilities

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
Oversee subgranting and reporting
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