Grants, Contracts, and Accounting Financial Management Position

Join the Center for Watershed Protection (CWP) team and use your skills, knowledge, expertise, experience, and passion to support a national nonprofit organization that works to provide clean water resources for all communities.

About the role

CWP is looking for a self-motivated individual with at least 10 years of financial management experience dealing with grant, contracts, and accounting issues relevant to nonprofit organizations that award and manage federal, state, local, and private sector grants and/or contracts. This position requires an individual who can work independently with minimal supervision, meet deadlines, and is detail-oriented. The role involves handling financial, accounting, and administrative management tasks related to the proper award, execution, and management of federal and non-federal grants, contracts, and other funding vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Work with project managers and other staff to timely and accurately prepare, develop, and review invoices with backup, ensuring adherence to applicable requirements.
• Provide federal, state, local, and non-governmental grant and contract administrative and management support by ensuring required forms, reports, invoices, and documents are developed, reviewed, and submitted timely and accurately.
• Lead the submission of the negotiated indirect cost rate process and monitor it regularly.
• Involvement with the CWP budget process, eventually taking the lead in preparing, developing, and reviewing the CWP budget and related documents.
• Maintain, refine, and update the backlog of projects and associated forms in Excel.
• Accurately bill and include details for multi-year projects with federal funding, multiple funding sources, and/or match requirements.
• Coordinate with an accounting consultant to ensure audits, single audits, and other financial reviews are conducted on a timely and accurate basis; eventually assume leadership for developing audit responses and positions.
• Provide accurate and detailed reports on various financial management-related issues such as strategic planning, budget, and project progress.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of financial management experience, specifically dealing with grants, contracts, and accounting issues relevant to nonprofit organizations.
• Experience managing governmental and non-governmental grants, contracts, and other funding vehicles.
• Proficiency in preparing and developing documents, charts, budgets, spreadsheets, graphs, invoices, and similar types of documents for grants, contracts, and accounting purposes.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to proofread grants, contracts, invoices, and similar documents to ensure accuracy and minimize errors.
• Skills, experience, and ability to work efficiently and effectively with minimal supervision.

Pay

$65,000 to $90,000 per year

Schedule

Part Time

Additional Information

Hybrid/Remote is allowed. This position is mostly remote with possible occasional travel to the office, as necessary.