Civic Innovation Financial Projects Director
About The Position
enFocus seeks a Civic Innovation Financial Projects Director to plan, initiate, and manage project-based financial services across various sectors. This role involves establishing client relationships, developing statements of work, and overseeing financial planning, forecasting, and other financial activities for clients in municipality, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and nonprofit industries. The Director will also support sector management by developing internal financial tools for organizational decision-making and guiding a team of Project Managers and Innovation Fellows to deliver projects on time and within budget. The position reports to the Vice President of Projects and collaborates with other Directors. This role supervises Project Managers who oversee the organization's Fellows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
- 1 year of experience as a Financial analyst in education, municipality, healthcare, and/or non-profit
Responsibilities
- Direct, coordinate and evaluate the activities of the civic innovation project portfolio related to financial services
- Present scenarios for securing clients within the local market based upon industry and economic trends
- Act as a liaison between enFocus and regional civic innovation clients to interpret customer needs, develop quality criteria and maintain customer satisfaction
- Utilize strategic planning techniques to identify and implement financial improvement activities with clients
- Suggest and implement service techniques in response to client strategic and operational issues such as developing a business plan and/or investment models
- Develop statements of work and manage contractual engagements considering key pricing strategies, cost structure, and legal requirements
- Supervise the development and delivery of forecasts and statements for clients based upon sound financial judgment and knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Lead the development of financial models to guide decisions by integrating operational, economic, and sector-specific data to guide client decision making
- Direct hiring decisions and staff assignments to projects across the portfolio based upon known factors contributing to the success of the project and the skills of the project team
- Evaluate portfolio-level financial and operational performance using quantitative analysis to inform resource allocation and long-term strategy
- Manage financial risk and performance across multiple concurrent projects, incorporating scenario analysis and long-term forecasting methodologies
- Oversee professional development activities for staff in areas such as project management, business administration and financial techniques
- Support recruitment activities including interviewing, onboarding, and team development
- Assist in the development of Board level reporting and external presentations to clients and potential donors
- Utilize financial awareness of local public, private and nonprofit sector issues to solve problems for regional clients and individuals
- Oversee the application of financial modeling, forecasting, and data visualization tools to support decision-making across project teams
- Support organizational decision making related to portfolio and administrative policies, systems and services
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
