Volunteer Opportunities

Recruiting Deadline: 8/15/26 | Start Date: late August early September The IRC’s Refugees Empowering Peers (REP) Mentoring program is an after-school program for high-school aged refugees. The program provides a safe and healing space for newly arrived youth to be around youth have gone through similar experiences.

Community Ambassadors will work in coordination with the Resource & Partnership Development (RPD) team in Sacramento to engage the local community through resource development, outreach, and other community engagement activities. This role is distinct from all other IRC volunteer opportunities in that it can accommodate all kinds of work schedules.

Recruiting Deadline: 8/28/26 | Start Date: Early September The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Department, provides essential oversight of program quality assurance, data management, and compliance across all organizational levels. The Quality Assurance Intern will support these efforts by focusing primarily on client feedback. This includes contacting clients by phone to conduct surveys, recording and tracking feedback and helping to organize and analyze responses. The intern will gain hands-on experience in client engagement, quality assurance processes and how feedback informs program improvement and accountability within a nonprofit setting.

Recruiting Deadline: 8/28/26 | Start Date: Early September Immigration interns work with Immigration Legal Representative(s) to directly assist clients with the processing and follow up of applications for lawful permanent residence, family reunification, and other immigration petitions necessary to receive legal residency in the United States and reunite family members.

Recruiting Deadline: Rolling basis until needs are filled | Start Date: Ongoing This branch of the Economic Empowerment department is tasked with assisting refugees in learning American workforce norms, expectations in the workplace, and comprehension on how to thrive financially in the U.S.

Recruiting Deadline: 8/28/26 Start Date: Early September The Sacramento IRC’s Survivors of Torture (SOT) project provides targeted services and assistance to refugee and immigrant survivors of torture

Recruiting Deadline: 8/28/26 | Start Date: Early September The Anti-Trafficking program supports survivors of labor and sex trafficking on their path to safety, security, and self-sufficiency.