Senior Group Funding Associate

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Group Funding Associate based in the United States.** As a Senior Group Funding Associate, you will play a vital role in supporting grassroots organizations by helping them navigate fundraising programs, financial processes, and compliance requirements. You will serve as a key point of contact for participating groups, providing practical guidance, resolving questions, and ensuring access to funding resources. Working closely with legal, finance, and program teams, you will help maintain accurate records, streamline administrative workflows, and promote responsible financial management. You will also contribute to developing training materials, improving funding processes, and strengthening the operational capacity of community-led initiatives. This opportunity is ideal for a detail-oriented professional who combines excellent customer service with strong organizational skills and independent problem-solving abilities. Join a collaborative, mission-driven environment committed to advancing an inclusive democracy, supporting grassroots leadership, and creating meaningful social impact. ### Accountabilities - **Program Management & Participant Support:** Serve as a primary point of contact for participating groups and their treasurers, responding promptly and professionally to inquiries about fundraising programs, financial procedures, eligibility, and available resources. - **Fundraising Program Onboarding:** Guide new groups through onboarding, ensuring leaders understand program requirements, compliance obligations, funding opportunities, and procedures for effectively managing and spending funds. - **Financial Compliance & Governance:** Collaborate with legal, finance, and program teams to help participants understand and comply with applicable funding rules, restrictions, and financial requirements. - **Funding Administration & Transfers:** Coordinate funding transfers and manage administrative processes that enable eligible groups to receive and use financial resources efficiently. - **Financial Tracking & Recordkeeping:** Maintain accurate records of fundraising activity, spending, funding transfers, approvals, and compliance checks, ensuring information remains organized, complete, and accessible. - **Process Improvement:** Help design and implement efficient review, approval, and spending-tracking procedures that improve program administration, reduce bottlenecks, and support participants effectively. - **Training & Resource Development:** Create and maintain training materials, practical guides, toolkits, and educational resources that help group leaders navigate fundraising and financial management processes. - **Funding Request Review:** Support the review of additional financial assistance requests while ensuring that required compliance checks and program guidelines are consistently applied. - **Proactive Follow-Up & Issue Resolution:** Monitor outstanding requests, identify items requiring attention, follow up with relevant stakeholders, and resolve administrative or compliance issues before they escalate. - **Cross-Functional Team Support:** Contribute to broader team initiatives, collaborate across departments, and support the continued development of movement support programs and related processes. - **Equity & Continuous Improvement:** Evaluate existing and future workflows through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens, helping make funding processes more accessible, transparent, and user-friendly. ## Requirements - **Professional Experience:** Three to five years of relevant professional experience, including at least two years in nonprofit fundraising, program administration, operations, or a related field. - **Independent Work & Accountability:** Demonstrated ability to take ownership of responsibilities, manage an established workload independently, meet deadlines, and move projects forward with minimal supervision. - **Customer Service Excellence:** Strong service-oriented approach, with the ability to provide personalized support, respond to inquiries professionally, and build positive relationships with a diverse range of program participants. - **Organizational Skills & Attention to Detail:** Exceptional organizational abilities and accuracy when managing records, reviewing documents, reconciling information, tracking compliance, and coordinating multiple priorities. - **Data Management & Technical Proficiency:** Strong proficiency in Google Workspace, particularly Google Sheets, including organizing, maintaining, reviewing, and manipulating data accurately. - **Administrative & Process Management:** Comfort with recurring, detail-intensive tasks such as data entry, record reconciliation, documentation, financial tracking, and compliance monitoring. - **Communication Skills:** Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain policies, funding requirements, and sensitive information clearly, tactfully, and consistently. - **Prioritization & Time Management:** Proven ability to manage competing deadlines, track outstanding tasks, follow up proactively, and handle time-sensitive responsibilities in a fast-paced environment. - **Problem-Solving & Adaptability:** A flexible, solutions-oriented mindset and the ability to navigate sensitive compliance issues, identify process improvements, and respond effectively to evolving program needs. - **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Ability to work effectively with colleagues across legal, finance, operations, and program teams while maintaining independent ownership of assigned responsibilities. - **Confidentiality & Professional Judgment:** Ability to handle sensitive financial information and participant communications with discretion, accuracy, and professionalism. - **Commitment to Equity & Inclusion:** Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and creating accessible, supportive processes for a broad range of grassroots organizations. - **Mission Alignment:** Genuine interest in supporting community organizing, strengthening grassroots fundraising capacity, and contributing to a more inclusive and participatory democracy. ## Benefits - **Competitive Annual Salary:** Fixed annual salary of **$83,900**. - **Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage:** Employer-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance. - **Health Reimbursement Arrangement:** Access to an employer-sponsored Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA). - **Flexible Spending Account:** Access to a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with limited employer matching. - **Retirement Savings:** A 401(k) retirement plan with an employer contribution match of up to 5%. - **Immediate Vesting Upon Eligibility:** Employees are fully vested in the retirement plan upon becoming eligible. - **Remote Work Flexibility:** Fully remote position based in the United States. - **Full-Time Employment:** Standard work schedule of 40 hours per week. - **Mission-Driven Work:** Opportunity to support grassroots organizations, strengthen community-led initiatives, and contribute to meaningful civic and social impact. - **Collaborative Team Environment:** Work alongside colleagues committed to equity, inclusion, shared learning, and collective progress. - **Equal Opportunity Workplace:** A commitment to fair employment practices, inclusive recruitment, and reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities.