Application Closing Date: August 4, 2024 at 23:00 MT
Location: Remote within the United States through a Hybrid work model preferred; strong preference for individuals in the Colorado area to ensure team continuity and collaboration with episodic in-person office days in Colorado as needed and prescribed by the organization.
Term: Full-time – 40 hours a week (exempt)
Organization: Global Greengrants Fund
Salary: Salaries at Global Greengrants Fund are dependent on applicable salary scales, and internal pay policies including equity considerations and budget. Due to how salary negotiations perpetuate existing structural inequities, GGF has moved away from salary negotiation processes for any candidate. We will make our best offer, and it will be the same regardless of the candidate. Our best offer for this position for someone in the US as per work band S is $83,000 per annum.
Benefits: Group medical and life insurance. Paid time off (10 vacation days in the first year, 12 sick days, four personal days, and up to 11 paid public holidays). Contribution to retirement savings. Remote/hybrid work and flexible work arrangements.
About Global Greengrants Fund
Global Greengrants Fund is a leading funder of the world’s grassroots environmental and climate justice movements. Since 1993, we have been growing our networks of activists, experts, donors, and leaders to provide these movements with the resources they need to work toward a healthy and just future.
Global Greengrants uses a variety of participatory grantmaking models to provide funding and other forms of support to grassroots groups around the world. We work with over 200 grantmaking advisors from around the world, all of whom are experts and activists, connected with the grassroots movements, issues, and challenges in the regions where they work. These advisors make grantmaking decisions as members of our organization’s regional and thematic advisory boards, of local funds that grew organically out of advisory boards in the regions where we work, and of other organizations that share our mission and values. We strive, however, for our grantmaking to be a relationship rather than a unidirectional flow of resources. Relationships built on trust and shared learning are essential to the success of our grantmaking.
Our advisors help the organizations they fund with mentoring and connections to larger movements and other institutions. By bringing back ideas and knowledge from grantees, advisors also help their colleagues and broader movements to work out new solutions to the problems that confront them.
The role
Global Greengrants Fund is looking to hire a highly motivated individual who is proficient in the best practices of nonprofit financial management and internal controls. Through direct support from the Accounting Manager, they will support the Chief Financial Officer and the finance team in the daily finance operations and accounting functions in maintaining complete and accurate financial records and financial transactions. The Staff Account will ensure the accuracy of accounts payable journal entries to ledger accounts and reconcile subsidiary ledger accounts to the general ledger. They will also support the compilation of data for statements of financial position, financial activity, and other related financial reports.
The candidate profile
The successful applicant will ideally have significant relevant experience in a similar role in a charitable/non-profit organization for whom grant making represented the core of the business model. They will have strong financial management acumen; knowledge of accounting procedures and protocols, budgeting, and financial analysis; and demonstrated experience with FASB and ASA nonprofit accounting standards. They will have strong knowledge and working experience with US GAAP and working knowledge and professional experience with annual audits and the IRS 990 process. They demonstrate excellent organizational skills, and the ability to ensure accuracy of work and demonstrate precise attention to detail. They will be meticulous with exceptionally strong follow-up and follow-through skills. They also thrive in a virtual environment, motivated to take on challenges and collaboratively find innovative and creative solutions. English fluency is a must. Higher education in Finance or Accounting would be preferred.
The right candidate will understand GGF’s core values and be committed to the guiding principles and mission of GGF and ensure they uphold them in the way they take up the responsibilities of the role.
How to apply
Please submit in English, a current CV, along with a cover letter explaining why you want to work for Global Greengrants Fund and how you meet the requirements of the role. Please include “Staff Accountant” in the subject line of the email and submit it to careers@greengrants.org by August 4th, 2024, at 23:00 MT. Please see the detailed Job Description by clicking here. If you’re intrigued by this position but feel like you don’t fit the profile precisely, please still apply. You can ask questions or seek further information to feel able to apply by writing to careers@greengrants.org.
We thank all those who apply, but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Women; trans, non-binary, and intersex persons; persons with disabilities and other candidates from historically oppressed groups, of all ages, are strongly encouraged to apply for this position. Global Greengrants Fund is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Global Greengrants Fund are based on organizational needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, health, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression.