Manager and Senior Director, Charter School Finance

About the role

This is a full-time, remote position within the United States, requiring up to 10% travel.

Responsibilities

• Directly advise school leaders on critical financial decisions.
• Navigate difficult situations and discussions by building and leveraging trusting, collaborative, and effective relationships with school leaders, boards, and their financial partners.
• Directly advise charter school boards, CEOs, CFOs, and other leaders on critical opportunities to improve their financial sustainability, governance and compliance practices, forecasting accuracy, and decisions about facilities, growth, and operational plans.
• Independently lead successful projects/engagements through client and team management.
• Ensure assigned client partners are satisfied with Afton’s services through thoughtful project planning and staffing, proactive communication, adjusted approaches based on feedback, and adherence to the scope, goals, and allocated resources of each project.
• Independently and collaboratively develop financial projections and financial analysis, prepare client-facing plans, and advise charter school leaders on important decisions.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects of varying complexity and duration.
• Coach, mentor, and support colleagues.
• Support the development of colleague’s technical, project management, and communication skills through formal coaching as a project leader and informal mentoring and information sharing.
• Advance Afton and our client partners’ goals by serving as a thought partner to Afton colleagues, within and beyond the Charter Finance team.