Company description

About the HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance:

Co-founded by the Food Chain Workers Alliance, the National Black Food & Justice Alliance, Real Food Challenge, and the Union of Concerned Scientists, HEAL is a multi-sector, multi-racial coalition building collective power to transform our food and farm systems, with racial justice and community self-determination at the core. We are led by our member organizations, who represent over 2 million rural and urban farmers, ranchers, fishers, farm and food chain workers, indigenous groups, scientists, public health advocates, policy experts, community organizers, and activists nationwide.

HEAL is committed to achieving food and farm systems that are nourishing for our families, accessible and affordable for all communities, and fair to the working people who grow, distribute, prepare, and serve our food — while protecting the air, water, and land we all depend on.

Our staff team is strong and growing — we are highly accountable to our members and to each other. Each of us contributes to the overall functioning of the organization, maintaining relationships with members, and adapting workflows to support one another’s needs. For more about how our team operates, please see our protocols and principles.

Job description

HEAL currently operates a $3.1 million annual budget, with a portion of all revenue redistributed to members. The Finance Manager contributes to the overall functioning of HEAL by managing and tracking all aspects of HEAL’s finances – from programmatic expenses to fundraising – with support from the Operations Team. The Finance Manager reports to the Director of Operations and Culture.

The ideal candidate has meticulous attention to detail and knows that sound financial management enables an organization to thrive and achieve its mission. They recognize the value of impeccable recordkeeping, tracking, follow-through, managing complex financial issues, and reporting. This position works closely with the Operations Team and fundraising consultants, supports program leaders in budget development and management, and interfaces with all staff, members, Steering Council and the general public.This is not a traditional bookkeeping or accounting role that solely works on the backend, we are looking for someone who will integrate and engage with our team and membership.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES. The core responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

60% FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

• Tracks and reports all HEAL expenditures, including credit card coding
• Reviews and ensures integrity of monthly financial reports
• Tracks all incoming grants, donations, stipends, and honoraria
• Ensures that all committed and received funds are accounted for
• Manages individual donor and grants databases, maintaining accurate and up-to-date donor and grant records via existing donor database systems
• Generates reports on fundraising activities and prepares reports on progress
• Tracks grant reporting deadlines
• Manages HEAL’s regranting, working with staff to ensure funds received for regranting purposes are distributed in a timely manner, reports are completed by grantees and for funders, and all regranting is tracked
• Processes all payment requests on HEAL’s behalf, such as from contractors, speakers, trainers, and staff reimbursements
• Manages annual membership dues collection
  Liaises with HEAL’s fiscal sponsor for financial tracking, including monthly financials review
• Create and manage financial systems and processes ensuring efficient financial tracking, transparency, accuracy
• Lead financial data analysis to support program leadership & ED making sound and strategic financial decisions

30% BUDGET MANAGEMENT

• Drafts and tracks annual organizational and programmatic budgets – including income and expenses – in collaboration with program leaders and ED, forecasting projections, identifying financial opportunities and risks
• Supports program leadership in managing and tracking their program budgets
• Provide budgets for grant proposals, reports, HEAL Steering Council, and membership

10% CONTRIBUTE TO OVERALL EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF HEAL

• Attend staff meetings and operations team meetings
  Represent HEAL at public events, conferences, coalition meetings, and to members. Make public presentations on HEAL’s vision, theory of change, and campaign work; recruit potential members and engage potential members in HEAL campaign work; represent HEAL in cross-sector coalitions.
• Maintain competency in issue areas related to racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice.
• Participate in planning and strategy sessions to achieve HEAL’s goals, using the experience and learning in this position to inform HEAL’s work plan, infrastructure development, and strategic planning
• Contribute to foundation proposals and reports.
• Maintain relationships with HEAL member organizations, including those local to where staff is based

QUALIFICATIONS

Detail-Oriented: Must have the ability to organize and track materials, set priorities between multiple demands, and meticulously track financial details.

Experienced: Must have at least 3 years experience with managing and tracking financials and developing and managing budgets at a similar scale. Must have experience with nonprofit financials and financial reporting.

Communicative: Must have excellent English language skills in all areas of verbal and written communications, and be skilled in interpersonal relations.

Adaptive: Must be able to work effectively with individuals with a wide range of professional experience, budget savviness, and financial literacy levels. Must be willing to work effectively with various systems and processes, adapting as organizational circumstances and timelines change.

Organized: Must be able to prioritize, take initiative, be independent, accountable, and comfortable managing projects remotely.

Collaborative: Must excel as a team player, demonstrating strong listening and communication skills and an appreciation for working with others

Tech Savvy: Must be able to utilize Google suite, Microsoft Office, bookkeeping software, CRMs like Airtable, and online project tracking and communication tools such as Asana and Slack.

Values Alignment: Demonstrated understanding of the intersections of racial, economic, and environmental justice and committed to transformative change.

Mindful: Must be able to steward our budget with care and adapt as the organization shifts and grows

Even if you do not believe that you meet every single criteria, we still encourage you to apply. We are most interested in finding the best candidates for the role, our team, and the alliance.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, $75,000 - $100,000

Location

job can be done remotely

Application instructions

Deadline

November 08, 2024