Managing Director

National Immigration Law Center

. Drive implementation of IMVP’s strategic vision and multi-year workplan, ensuring clarity, coordination, and accountability across leadership teams and partners.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeLos Angeles • California, District of Columbia • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $140,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive implementation of IMVP’s strategic vision and multi-year workplan, ensuring clarity, coordination, and accountability across leadership teams and partners.
Lead the design and facilitation of regular leadership convenings, retreats, and working sessions to guide collective decision-making and strategy alignment.
Cultivate strong, trust-based relationships with immigrant justice leaders, partner organizations, funders, and allied movements.
Direct IMVP’s staff and consultants, fostering an inclusive, learning-oriented, and high-performance culture.
Design and implement staff development strategies, ensuring team members have the training, feedback, and resources to thrive.
Provide strategic guidance on national narrative and campaign priorities to build a cohesive immigrant justice movement.
Lead and manage all day-to-day financial accounting processes ensuring revenue and expenses are recorded accurately and timely.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated commitment to immigrant justice, workers’ rights, and social and economic equity.
7–10+ years of progressive leadership experience in advocacy, organizing, or movement-oriented organizations, ideally managing multi-stakeholder collaborations.
Proven record of leading complex campaigns or strategic initiatives, from design to implementation and evaluation.
Experience supervising and developing teams, with demonstrated ability to motivate and lead across lines of difference.
Strong facilitation and negotiation skills, with experience managing partnerships, coalitions, and collaborative processes.
Expertise in strategy development, campaign planning, and organizational management, including budgeting and program oversight.
Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage diverse audiences and stakeholders.
Strategic thinker with operational discipline, balancing visionary leadership with practical execution.

Benefits

Comp & perks

employer-paid healthcare coverage (100% for employees and 75% for dependents)
employer-supported dental and vision coverage
403(b)-retirement plan including an automatic contribution from NILC
paid parental leave
monthly cell phone and wellness stipends
pre-tax accounts for transit, health, and childcare benefits (FSA)
employer-paid short- and long-term disability and life insurance
generous paid-time-off policy
15 holidays and 22 days of paid time off annually (increased to 32 after 2 years of employment)

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial accountingbudgetingcampaign planningstrategy developmentorganizational management

Soft Skills

leadershipfacilitationnegotiationrelationship-buildingteam developmentstrategic thinkingcommunicationmotivation