SFILEN Program Manager

Position Summary: This position manages the 11-agency San Francisco Immigrant Legal and Education Network (SFILEN) at both the programmatic and administrative levels, ensuring a unified vision and approach to network services and campaigns.

The Program Manager administers SFILEN grants and contracts, including deliverables, compliance, reporting, invoicing, and budget monitoring, while coordinating partners and logistics for network-wide events and meetings.

The role partners closely with the SFRRN Program Manager and supervises the SFILEN & SFRRN Program Coordinator.

About Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) CAA was founded in 1969 to protect the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States.

Today, CAA is a progressive voice in and on behalf of the broader Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

CAA advocates for systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial and social injustice.

About SF Immigrant Legal and Education Network (SFILEN) The San Francisco Immigrant Legal and Education Network (SFILEN), a 20 year old trailblazing network, was founded in 2006 to provide free multi-lingual and culturally relevant immigration legal services and community education to San Franciscos working class, limited-English proficient, immigrant communities.

Since its founding the network has paved the way as a successful model for multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-strategy coalition building to advance immigrant rights and immigrant access to legal services.

In 2026, CAA became the lead and fiscal agency to house SFILEN, and the San Francisco Rapid Response Network (SFRRN).

As a founding and active member of these networks, CAA is committed to the health and wellbeing of both collaboratives in order that partners may continue to serve immigrant communities with immigration legal services and community education in the face of heightened immigration enforcement and rising xenophobia.

Position Description Reporting to the Managing Director of Programs, the SFILEN Program Manager manages the 11 agency network at the programmatic and administrative levels ensuring unified vision and approach to SFILEN services and campaigns, managing grants and contracts, driving network-wide events and programming, coordinating administrative and logistical needs for events, funders, and compliance purposes, and provides political leadership on immigrant rights issues.

This position works very closely with, and at times shares work with, the San Francisco Rapid Response Program Manager.

Key Responsibilities Manage SFILEN Contracts and Grants Ensure network and partner success in timely implementation and completion of: program activities, deliverables and goals, performance measures, reports, partner agreements including compliance requirements, and other funder requirements across all SFILEN related funding sources.

Manage programming of SFILEN towards demonst...