Finance & Operations Director

Position Summary

NEC is seeking a full-time (32 hours / week) Finance & Operations Director to join our team and coordinate our Finance Circle. The ideal candidate will have a deep commitment to racial, economic, and environmental justice, and will have skill sets at the intersections of systems building, financial management, maintaining relationships, and creative problem solving.

The Finance & Operations Director’s main goal is to maintain the financial health of the organization with collaboration from Finance Circle members, including the Board Treasurer. The FOD will also work with the Radical Operations Circles (HR & IT) to maintain staff systems. This role is primarily internal-facing, and interacts with external work through member working groups and external partnerships.

Responsibilities (100%)

Finance (60%)

• Coordinate Finance Circle
  • Schedule with appropriate staff, board, and vendors
  • Create meeting agendas
• Co-lead annual participatory budgeting process with Resource Mobilization Director
• Review and approve financial statements and expenses
• Work with our accountant and staff to support gift processing, expense tracking, donation tracking, A/P and A/R, banking relationships, and cash flow management as needed
• Maintain relationship with board treasurer, external accountant, and other vendors
• Stay up to date with compliance for a remote organization working across states and update compliance

Radical Operations (25%)

• Participate in Radical Operation Weekly Meetings
• Auditing procedures support for HR Circle Yearly Auditing
• Auditing procedures lead for Financial Yearly Auditing
• Write and edit organizational policies with support of Radical Operations Circle Members
• Maintain documentation retention and continuity alongside HR Circle and other internal circles
• Supporting with translating new and innovative updated systems for staff credit card reporting
• Supporting with the Member onboarding data systems such as outline and transferring onboarding

Collective Governance (15%)

This is the same for all staff unless elected for a term on General Circle

• Participating in weekly staff meetings, quarterly board meetings, member meetings, and applicable circle meetings.
• Responsiveness to Slack, Loomio proposals, and topics related to our WSD model and sociocracy
• Offering to support with all-hands-on-deck projects in staff circle and other governance projects
• Ad hoc committees like hiring committees, retreat planning, program planning, etc.

Values of the Ideal Candidate

• Understanding of and commitment to solidarity economy values, such as racial, economic, and climate justice; cooperative ownership; democratic governance; and systems change.Deep commitment to anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices
• Desire to work in a Worker Self-Directed organization, including participation in collective governance and democratic decision-making, and taking on roles to support the overall health of the organization.
• Has informal experience with the solidarity economy outside of work/activism (i.e. gift economy, time banking, mutual aid)
• Self-identifies with our North Star Communities, or has organized in deep partnership with North Star Communities
• Has a clear self-defined stake in building solidarity economies
• Excited to learn from mistakes, receive feedback, and give feedback to others.
• Commitment to building a culture of self-direction, mutual accountability, liberation, respect, and joy.

Qualifications & Skills

• Any combination of formal education, paid work experience, unpaid/volunteer experience, and life experience will be considered to meet the following:
• Strong relationship building skills; listening to and taking an interest in others.
• Commitment to building a culture of self-direction, mutual accountability, liberation, respect, and joy.
• Tech savvy and proficient with Google Workspace, organizing platforms (NEC uses Action Network), CRMs (NEC uses Powerbase).
• Commitment to solidarity economy values, such as racial, economic, and climate justice; cooperative ownership; democratic governance; and systems change.
• Strong time management skills: self-motivated with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Desire and ability to work in a remote environment.
• Willing to learn from mistakes, receive feedback, and give feedback to others.
• Experience leading non-profit and/or democratic workplace operations, finance, and administration.
• Understanding of and experience creating financial statements and reports
• Demonstrated experience in building internal systems which are transparent, efficient, and accountable
• Strong project management skills
• Experience with auditing

Who is NEC?

New Economy Coalition (NEC) is a membership-based organization working to build the power and scale of the solidarity economy movement in the United States. Our network of 170+ member organizations is working to transform the extractive economy and build up community ownership and just transition solutions with a strong intersectional lens. NEC members work across regions and various solidarity economy sectors, including co-ops, community land trusts, participatory budgeting, public banks, credit unions, energy democracy, and more!

NEC adopted a worker self-directed nonprofit model in 2020. This means we operate under a peer-management and collective governance framework. We are continuing to build our tools, including sociocratic models and we are growing ways to share collective governance. Prior experience in these areas is a plus, but not a requirement. The person who fills this role should be interested in learning about and building their collective governance muscles over time!

NEC is a fully remote organization. The person in this position may be expected to travel within the United States several times a year to staff retreats or conferences. This role requires extended use of a computer & technical expertise. Working hours are flexible but everyone on staff is generally expected to be available between 12-4pm EST Monday through Thursday.

Compensation

NEC uses an Equitable Merit Compensation Policy with a self set salary. The organization empowers employees to be transparent with their needs and name them in our yearly salary setting process.At NEC, we use solidarity principles to determine some considerations for setting your salary that may include cost of living in the state in which you reside, the number of your dependents,your educational background, past leadership experiences. We believe that our Equitable Merit Compensation Policy ensures that all full-time employees receive compensation aligned with their actual needs, not constrained by traditional hierarchies, colonial-capitalistic systems or market-driven wage suppression.

At NEC, our mission-aligned goals for salary setting is to ensure that we have a compensation system that embodies a compensation system that:

• Honors lived realities and cost of living in our current societal environment
• Supports economic dignity for all staff members differentiated circumstances
• Promotes transparency, participation, and collective accountability
• Ensures the financial sustainability of the organization through planning and development of the budget with NEC’s Board of Directors on an annual basis
• Follows all applicable IRS considerations for reasonable compensation for non-profits

Currently, our policy has a pay range of $78k – $150k

Benefits

• Full healthcare, dental, and vision insurance – Company-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Short and long term disability
• 401K Retirement fund, with automatic 3% employer contributions
• Employer-provided laptop
• $200 Home Office monthly stipend
• Time off:
  • 20 Wellness days
  • 16 Vacation days
  • 3 Floating Holidays
  • Summer and Winter office closures (in addition to federal holidays).
  • Bereavement days
  • $1,500 Professional Development yearly commitment

How to Apply

Please submit this form by December 16, 2026. Be ready to include:

• A resume (PDF) and/or CV
• A short cover letter about why you are interested in the position, your skillsets, and your stake in the solidarity economy movement (PDF)
• A link to a work sample. Examples can include: policies, presentations, proposals. (instructions in the application form)

We will begin reviewing applications in January 2027, and hope to schedule first round interviews in late-January/early-February. The projected start date is April 1, 2027.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

NEC aspires to build an inclusive and liberatory organization. We value having a diversity of life experiences, identities and perspectives on our staff. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, disability, gender, nationality, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by law. People of color, women, working-class, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

This listing was sourced from 4dayweek.io.