Interim Executive Director

Date posted: February 11, 2026

Pay: $95,000.00 - $105,000.00 per year

Job description:

The Organization

Mission: The Student Immigrant Movement (SIM) is a political home for working-class, undocumented, and immigrant youth, ages 14-26, in Massachusetts. We are a membership-led organization that builds power to advance racial, economic, and social justice. We do this by developing the leadership of immigrant youth across the state through community organizing, popular education, and cultural activism.

Vision: We imagine a world where immigrant youth and all marginalized communities can live with dignity, respect, and freedom, beyond the identities forced on us, beyond borders, beyond status, and beyond the barriers that hold us back.

Role Summary

For more than 20 years, generations of undocumented and immigrant youth have come through SIM to find their voice, build community, and fight for dignity, belonging, and power in their schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, and across the state.

Right now, SIM is undergoing a restructuring and rebuilding process that will set the stage for the organization’s next chapter. This organizational moment is about embracing our roots, strengthening what we’ve built over these 20 years, and shaping the next era of immigrant youth leadership. SIM is seeking a seasoned organizer to serve as Interim Executive Director for a 12-month term, playing a critical role in guiding the organization through its next chapter. The Interim Executive Director will steward SIM’s Statewide Hub by partnering closely with local groups to support youth leadership and align local and statewide organizing efforts.

Working closely with the Board, the Interim Executive Director will facilitate the organization’s political framework, ensuring youth leaders and members continue to deepen their understanding of the current socio-political and economic context. They will be responsible for strengthening the statewide leadership structure by coaching, mentoring, and supervising local youth leaders and organizers.

Finally, the Interim Executive Director will work closely with the Board to advance fundraising and strengthen internal operational systems, ensuring that SIM continues to thrive in its commitment to being a bold, transformative, movement-centered, immigrant youth-led organization.

SIM is a fiscally sponsored project of Resist, Inc.

Responsibilities

Capacity Building & Leadership Development (60%)

• In close partnership with the board, oversee the implementation of SIM’s statewide hub infrastructure, including facilitating the strategic direction of SIM’s programs, managing statewide campaigns until permanent leadership is hired
• Build, scale, and steward SIM’s statewide core leadership committee, including designing and facilitating leadership meetings
• Supervise, coach, and mentor SIM Fellows, supporting their leadership development and capacity to organize and build a base within their communities through regular check-ins and structured support
• Oversee the planning and execution of SIM trainings and statewide membership gatherings (e.g., SIM Camp), serving as lead facilitator and agenda-setter while ensuring logistics are effectively coordinated and delegated as appropriate
• Implement popular education and ensure the learnings are integrated into SIM’s organizing practices through meetings, retreats, and workshops
• Represent SIM at external meetings with partners and stakeholders, including in coalition and network spaces
• Build and actively maintain relationships with movement partners, supporting local partners in growing their own internal capacity to advancing youth leadership

Fundraising & Operations (30%)

• In close partnership with the Board, lead the execution of SIM’s annual development plan, serving as the primary relationship manager for donors and institutional funders
• Oversee the management of SIM’s donor database and grant systems, ensuring accurate tracking, compliance, and timely reporting
• Serve as the primary liaison to SIM’s fiscal sponsor (Resist, Inc.), ensuring strong coordination, transparency, and alignment across financial management, compliance, and reporting
• In partnership with the Board Chair and Treasurer, co-lead organizational budgeting,

forecasting, and financial planning to align resources with SIM’s strategic priorities and long-term sustainability

• Provide strategic oversight of organizational expenditures, ensuring fiscal accountability, budget discipline, and clear, timely financial reporting to the Board
• Support the Board in building a shared understanding of SIM’s financial position by translating complex financial data into accessible insights that inform collective decision-making
• Stabilize and strengthen internal systems, roles, and workflows during the leadership transition, positioning the organization for a successful handoff to permanent leadership

Communications & Other Administrative Tasks (10%)

• Provide strategic oversight of monthly donor and supporter communications, ensuring systems and processes are in place to keep SIM’s listserv regularly updated with timely information on organizing, campaigns, and programmatic priorities
• Set direction and provide high-level guidance on social media strategy and content, delegating execution to youth leaders, contractors, or partners as appropriate
• Regularly co-facilitate monthly Board meetings and develop meeting agendas in partnership with the Board Chair.

The Ideal Candidate

• A seasoned organizer who is a strong relationship builder with a sharp power analysis
• Demonstrated commitment to racial, economic, and social justice, and passionate about the organization’s mission
• Demonstrated commitment to transformative and healing justice, and ensuring that it is woven into the organizational culture
• Experience working with youth populations and building leadership pipelines is strongly preferred.
• Strong, facilitative leadership that will guide SIM’s leadership (including the board) toward shared alignment
• A strategic thinker who is intellectually curious and can recognize the tactical opportunities and proactively pursue them
• Can relate and connect with SIM’s base of immigrant youth, and can engage, inspire, support, and encourage them to lead
• A bilingual speaker who is fluent in either Spanish or Portuguese, or both
• Knowledgeable about the immigrant justice ecosystem in Massachusetts, strongly preferred but not required
• Detail-oriented collaborator who has proven experience managing deadlines and multi-tasking
• Strong financial reporting and budgeting skills are preferred
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to create and sustain positive and effective working

relationships with others

• Ability to work a flexible schedule, as the role requires occasional work during weekends and nights
• A team player with the ability to work independently as necessary
• Ability to produce in-person, hybrid, or fully remote donor cultivation events.
• Able to travel and drive, required
• Access to reliable internet and the ability to navigate digital platforms such as Google Workplace tools, Action Network, and Zoom
• High school diploma and/or GED certificate preferred, but not required journey!

This is a full-time, 12-month position with compensation of $95,000–$105,000. There is the possibility of contract renewal based on organizational needs and performance. Full-time employees are entitled to unlimited PTO. Health and Dental insurance are provided.

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Boston, MA 02133

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

English and Spanish preferred.