POSITION SUMMARY (cont. from above)

Background
The Northern California Community Loan Fund’s Fiscal Fitness program provides practical, financial management technical assistance and training to nonprofits serving low-income communities in the Bay Area and throughout Northern California. Through facilitated workshops and customized consulting engagements, Fiscal Fitness helps nonprofits learn to use financial information as a strategic management tool – crucial skills that help organizations to better manage their finances and thus serve their clients more effectively. For organizations who seek to acquire a building for their programs, assessing their own Fiscal Fitness is a prerequisite for assuming the overhead cost of building operations and the long-term financial obligations of building ownership.

Fiscal Fitness builds long-term capacity and knowledge throughout the client’s organization. Services include training Board members on roles and responsibilities, assessing strengths and weaknesses of financial procedures and practices, and working with staff to produce financial information that will help them manage their organization more effectively. The templates, systems and other tools that we help our clients create all support a healthy, sustainable organizational infrastructure.

Primary Responsibilities
Client Services
• Scope consulting contracts for Fiscal Fitness engagements.
• Work with Sr. Managing Consultant to organize, plan and conduct Fiscal Fitness workshops.
• Facilitate client organization’s board and staff in reaching agreement on organizational financial goals and desired outcomes.
• Build client financial monitoring systems based on prioritized program goals and financial outcomes to be monitored by client.
• Conduct and analyze individual client assessments designed to assess their capacity to take on facility projects.
• Present assessment results to organization in summary written form.
• Create partnerships with existing organizations for service delivery.
• Create and maintain referral network of accounting professionals.
• Measure and track results of consulting engagements.

Program Management & Administration
• Work with Sr. Managing Consultant and Director of Consulting to implement new NCCLF programs and processes.
• Provide strategic input into the direction of organization.
• Work to develop internal (NCCLF) staff partnerships for efficient service delivery.
• Work with Director of Consulting to identify projects for Consulting Analyst that will support work with clients and review work of Consulting Analyst and provide feedback to Consulting Analyst.

Minimum Requirements
• 5+ years experience building financing systems for nonprofit organizations.
• Ability to conduct site visits to assess existing financial systems.
• Experience with nonprofit financial management and ability to teach nonprofit financial management material in both classroom and small group settings.
• Extensive familiarity with Microsoft Excel and QuickBooks.
• Ability to design and build financial analysis models with multiple worksheets in Microsoft Excel.
• Valid California Drivers License for required driving.

Desired Qualifications, Skills & Experience
• Great sense of humor.
• Familiarity common finance accounting systems used by nonprofit organizations.
• Experience with nonprofit facility development and/or management practices.
• Unflappable under pressure.

Compensation and Benefits
Starting salary is commensurate with experience with a range of $62 – $69,000, plus an excellent benefits package including health, dental, retirement plan and three weeks vacation.

To Apply
Send resume and cover letter to:
Northern California Community Loan Fund
Attn: Finance Consultant Search
870 Market Street, Suite 677
San Francisco, California 94102

OR Fax to 415-392-8216

OR Email to hr@ncclf.org

If emailing, please paste cover letter and resume into text of email. Do not send any attachments.

Application Deadline: Open until filled.