Senior Manager, Fiscal Mapping

Children's Funding Project

8d•$90,000 - $101,250•Remote

About The Position

Children’s Funding Project is hiring a Senior Manager, Local Fiscal Mapping, to grow its local fiscal mapping portfolio and help advocates use fiscal data to improve outcomes for children and youth across the country. The position works with local clients and partners to design, build, and effectively use fiscal maps to generate more dedicated funding for children and youth. The ideal candidate brings deep knowledge of funding streams that support children’s and youth programs, strong project design, implementation, and strategic consulting skills, and the ability to help communities build and understand fiscal maps that advance policy and advocacy goals. This is a new, full-time, exempt position reporting to the Vice President, Implementation and Impact. It is remote and may be performed from anywhere in the United States, with the ability to travel. The hiring range is $90,000–$101,250. Children’s Funding Project offers a generous benefits package and a work environment emphasizing professional development and growth. Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the United States; the organization cannot sponsor visas. A cover letter is required and should address the applicant’s interest in and vision for the position, as well as relevant professional and lived experiences. The organization is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, education, finance, public policy, social work, or a related field.
6–10 years of experience in the government, nonprofit, or human services sector, ideally in work involving project design and implementation, data and/or policy analysis, and strategic advising.
Comfort developing and communicating policy recommendations.
Strong analytical skills and proficiency with data analysis software such as Excel, Power BI, Data Wrapper, and/or Tableau.
Excellent communication skills, especially stakeholder management and community engagement.
Experience fostering a supportive and inclusive team culture.
Commitment to continuous learning and proactive feedback loops.
Actively seeks professional growth and improvement through ongoing training, professional development, openness to and delivery of performance feedback, and learning from and with colleagues.
Must be legally eligible to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is unavailable.
Ability to travel.

Nice To Haves

Master’s or professional degree in a relevant field, such as public policy.
Prior experience in education, child and youth policy or systems, or strategy consulting with state or community leaders.
Knowledge of federal, state, and local funding for children and youth.
Technical experience developing local fiscal maps.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and support the successful use of grant-funded and client-commissioned fiscal maps, including acquiring public budget and finance data, performing complex data cleaning, coding and analyses, and creating visualizations and recommendations to advance local policy and revenue goals.
Collaborate across teams to integrate local fiscal mapping data into revenue generation and strategic public financing work.
Create and manage project workplans, ensuring local fiscal maps are high-quality and delivered on time and within budget.
Support continuous quality improvement of fiscal mapping methodology and tools.
Identify when clients need more than standard support, and scope, design, and deliver custom consulting projects combining policy and systems knowledge with strategic public financing approaches.
Build relationships with prospective local fiscal map clients and develop scopes of work for clients seeking to generate new revenue for children’s and youth services and programs.
Contribute to proposals to foundations and other investors for fiscal data infrastructure work.
Analyze, synthesize, and share local fiscal mapping findings, lessons learned, and recommended practices with advocates, policymakers, funders, and other partners through reports, blogs, presentations, and other mediums.
Serve as a thought partner and strategic advisor to local fiscal mapping clients and partners on applying fiscal mapping data to advance policy and revenue goals.
Contribute to internal fiscal mapping strategy and planning by representing the local fiscal mapping portfolio.
Perform other duties as assigned.