Job Title:        Finance & Grant Manager, Job Description

Employer:      Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association

Location:        Anchorage preferred (not required)

Wage:              TBD (hourly)

Deadline to Apply:    Open until filled

Organization

Founded in 1979, BSFA’s mission is to support healthy and vibrant fishing communities by fostering greater social, financial, and political capacity to access, sustainably develop and protect fishery resources in the Arctic, Yukon, Kuskokwim, and Bristol Bay regions of Alaska.

We are committed to the sustainable management of Alaska’s resources. We are curators and stewards of the extraordinary lifestyle and culture of Alaskans. We serve to strengthen local communities, support long-term ecological integrity, and stimulate robust economies.

For more information, please visit www.bsfaak.org

Position

This position will provide overall management of program financial and budget activities to fund operations, meet grant objectives, and monitor expenditure of grant and operational funds. The ideal candidate has excellent communication skills, and ability to work well independently and as a team player. Strong spreadsheet skills will also be necessary for scenario planning, budget creation, and monitoring. This position is necessary for BSFA to proactively pursue and achieve short and long-term strategic financial and mission goals.

Qualifications:

• Excellent analytical, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate and design communication approaches for relaying technical, budgetary, and program details to staff, consultants, funders, and board in a clear and user-oriented manner.
• Strong MS excel, MS Word and ability to learn new software and systems.
• Demonstrated work experience or coursework in grants, project management, financial management, finance, and/or accounting.
• Experience building budgets, databases, preparing reports, forecasts, as well as scenario planning.
• Ability to think critically, act decisively, and synthesize program and operational issues.
• Ability to prioritize duties, multi-task, and meet multiple deadlines.
• Ability to identify various options, trade-offs, contingencies, and ramifications to achieve goals.
• Willingness to take initiative, high-level of self-motivation, and ease working independently or collaboratively as part of a team.
• Personal qualities of integrity, honesty, flexibility, discretion, positive attitude, and mission-driven are all crucial to the success of this role.
• Must be comfortable with occasional urban and rural travel.

Primary Duties: Perform functions of budget and grant administration to include, but not limited to:

Grants Management

• Develop and manage overall grant flow process throughout the life cycle of the grant including documentation procedures and database management as well as grant process implementation protocols, internal financial protocols, grant tracking documentation, compiling necessary data and statistics, monitoring, etc.
• Assists Executive Director with finding potential funding opportunities
• Assists Executive Director with preparing grant proposals and reports.
• Assists Executive Director with development of grant budgets and forecasts
• Work with project directors to build and monitor grant budgets.

Finance Management

• Assist Executive Director with development of organizational budgets and forecasts.
• Prepare annual budget, provide technical support, maintain accurate accounting and documentation, and prepare documents as necessary to provide budgetary perspective.
• Responsible for creating and updating forecasts, reviewing budget vs. actual variances, identifying red flags as to over or underspending as well as completing budget modifications as needed.
• Performs additional responsibilities as assigned by the Executive Director.

Compensation (additional details): This is a full-time, non-exempt hourly position (40 hours per week). The salary range for this position is $55,000-$65,000 per year. If position is remote BSFA will cover basic connectivity costs.

Work Environment: Employee must be able to work in a flexible and fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to juggle and prioritize multiple, competing tasks and demands while seeking supervisory assistance where appropriate. Employee must demonstrate a high-level of self-motivation and feel comfortable working independently in addition to being a strong team player.

To express interest in the position please submit a cover letter with compensation range, resume and 2 personal and 2 professional references via email to karen@bsfaak.org.