Job Type:
Full-Time The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (www.iskme.org), an independent, nonprofit research institute seeks an experienced Senior Director of Operations and Finance. Candidate has hands-on experience in helping non-profits or start-ups develop a thriving and sustainable model for growth. Equally important will be to support the unique and innovative culture that has defined ISKME since 2002 through this growth.
Requirements:
- A unique systems-driven hybrid who can relate to the operations of ISKME with phenomenal integrity for the people who work here.
- Prior experience in helping an organization facilitate its way through growing pains while helping to hold the vision of where it is going as an organization.
- Ability to look and think across different service and product areas
- Able to not only deliver at the operational level, but have the foresight to ask questions about what they see, in order to enable the President to lead ISKME to achieve its goals.
- Experience in how to leverage existing capacity within an organization and turn it into what they need to deliver on the other side.
- Capacity to future-think, while maintaining the ability to operate in the present.
- Possess a natural people sense, and understand how to translate the operational and financial to people.
Key responsibilities include the following:
- Financial planning and reporting, including monitoring and budgeting project revenues, costs and cash flows
- Accounts payable and accounts receivable
- External grants and contracts
- Proposal writing and grant reporting
- Scheduling and timely completion of all deliverables
- HR and staff-related activities
- Marketing and communications oversight
- Manage technology infrastructure of small office
- Develop metrics to measure organizational goals
- Design of feedback loops necessary to achieve team happiness and organizational effectiveness
Qualifications:
- An MBA and 5-10 years of operations and finance experience, including specifically non-profit finance and accounting
- A deep interest and passion in the education sector
- Excellent writing and presentation ability, and critical thinking skills
- Proven ability to plan and execute resourcefully, with minimal supervision, and to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative problem-solving environment while also working independently, juggling multiple priorities and deadlines, and accomplishing tasks on time
- Exemplary interpersonal skills
Location:
ISKME is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, approximately 25 miles south of San Francisco, in Half Moon Bay.