Advisor

Movement Strategy Center• US,

9d•$77,000 - $90,000

About The Position

Movement Strategy Center (MSC) is a social and environmental justice incubator that has served as a movement hub for over two decades. MSC houses visionaries and emergent networks, and provides core intermediary functions to advance ecosystem-wide impact by resourcing leaders, networks, and projects, and offering fiscal sponsorship and philanthropic services. MSC's in-house incubation efforts focus on cross-sector movement building to accelerate a Just Transition from a world of domination, extraction, and violence to a world of interdependence, liberation, and resilience. MSC centers Black, Indigenous, and People of Color intergenerational systems leaders and networks that are committed to transformation and whose communities are most impacted by extraction, domination, and violence. MSC recognizes that movements change the way we think, our structures and systems, the way we live, and who we are, and that interconnected issues require interconnected solutions.

Requirements

A minimum of 5 years experience working and/or actively volunteering in nonprofit, community-based, advocacy or public sector fields.
A minimum of 3 years experience in a leadership role managing operations, finance or development for a nonprofit.
A minimum of 2 years experience in finance and/or accounting, preferably non-profit.
Experience providing innovative and values-based business development strategies.
Skill in providing capacity building education and trainings.
Strong tech literacy skills, proficiency in Google Suite including Google Sites and utilizing online work productivity tools.
Ability to work independently and in teams, while managing multiple projects with competing timelines.
Fast learner and able to integrate new systems collaboratively.
Ability to work independently and in teams, managing projects with competing timelines.
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
Strong oral and written communication skills; ability to present clearly and effectively.
Ability and willingness to adapt to systems, processes, and matrix management.
Proficient in Netsuite and Bill.com.
Proficient in Asana and other project management tools.

Nice To Haves

Passionate about building the capacity of individuals, organizations, networks and sectors towards transformational, strategic and sustainable goals.
Passionate about supporting organizational management and development.
Value systems-based design, operational excellence and a network-based ecosystem.
Proactive and data-inspired innovator with strong strategic advising skills.
Experience tracking permissible lobbying activity for advocacy organizations.

Responsibilities

Manage a mixed partner portfolio of 501c3 and 501c4 Model A, and Model C fiscally-sponsored organizations.
Provide high-level strategic, financial, and organizational guidance to fiscally-sponsored organizations for social impact and mission success.
Partner with internal MIIC team members, finance, legal, HR, and compliance experts to support activities of the portfolio.
Deliver high quality service as the point of contact for clients, ensuring a coordinated and efficient sharing of information, including communications, systems support, and a cadence of ongoing meeting touchpoints.
Manage daily operational service requests with attention to timely responsiveness, and route incoming questions to appropriate departments and staff.
Build and deepen a relational and transactional base for the long-term partnership with partners.
Work collaboratively with team members and across departments to address financial and grant management, legal and risk compliance, human resources, and event support for clients to achieve significant and scalable impact toward team goals.
Identify gaps in operations and propose/create systems and processes, and bring in other departments where needed.
Proactively support compliance with grant provisions, state and local laws and regulations, MSC policies, and knowledge of relevant lobbying activity.
Serve as a main source of knowledge for MSC’s policies, and procedures, to provide proactive literacy support on our processes and systems (Netsuite, Divvy, Bill.com).
Partner with Finance Department to track the financial health and sustainability of projects, and support the annual budgeting process.
Support operational, evaluative, business development, and strategic efforts for continuous improvement and asset growth.
Assist in cultivation of relationships with individual, foundation, and corporate funding partners to support fund development as needed.
Support on-boarding, policy development, and business development processes as needed.
Leverage and deepen expertise to curate relationships and knowledge in a specific focus area (e.g., issue, functional skill, community).
Support, contribute to, and implement strategic programmatic work for the MIIC Team.
Identify emerging trends, and sustainable initiatives that can be brought into MSC.
Plan and support MIIC programming, trainings, events, and convenings and briefings related to issue areas to expand and deepen issue, and power-building knowledge.
Represent MSC externally and build collaborative networks across sectors and issue areas, in support of business development strategies.
Research, propose, and present at conferences, gatherings, professional associations, and other external events.
Curate educational and capacity building materials for MSC organizations and the field as needed.
Participate in internal and cross-department teams to identify and create materials for events, capacity building services, and business development as needed.