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American Rivers

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1973

💼 Consulting

🤝 Non-profit

Consulting • Non-profit • Environmental

American Rivers is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of rivers throughout the United States. They focus on ensuring clean water, restoring rivers, and protecting river ecosystems, with goals such as removing harmful dams and promoting climate resilience in urban communities. American Rivers aims to protect one million miles of free-flowing rivers by 2030 and half of all rivers in the U. S. by 2050, focusing on areas where people live, and they work to ensure federal funds are used effectively to improve safety, health, and biodiversity. They also aim to educate and mobilize the public to become advocates for river conservation.

📋 Description

• Serve as a key operational partner to assigned Conservation Division team leaders • Implement upgraded operational systems, tools, and efficient processes as Conservation teams grow • Ensure conservation work is executed efficiently and complies with organizational policies and applicable laws and regulations • Coordinate with Finance and Grants Management to ensure compliance with enterprise processes and systems • Ensure timely and accurate invoicing, time and expense reporting, and grant reporting • Track and manage team-level budgets and provide project and grant budget tracking tools and reports • Ensure grants are spent down in compliance with donor restrictions and on time • Implement grant extension requests as needed • Ensure staff time is properly distributed across available funding sources • Support grant proposal budget development with project managers and the Advancement team • Review donor gift tracking managed by the Advancement team • Coordinate fundraising priorities based on identified budget gaps • Ensure procurement and contracting procedures and laws are followed • Flag work requiring additional legal review, consultation, or insurance coverage • Steward team projects through approval and funding phases • Ensure organizational staff are notified and consulted about new work • Coordinate with Conservation team leads and the Director of Operations, Conservation on emerging operational needs • Integrate Conservation teams with the centralized Business Strategy and Operations and Advancement divisions

🎯 Requirements

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree required • 7+ years of experience managing budgets, grants, and/or contracts with complex compliance requirements • Nonprofit or mission-driven organization experience preferred • Proficiency with Microsoft Office: Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Proficiency with core enterprise software tools, including accounting and budgeting software, project management software, and/or CRM • Must be legally allowed to work as an employee in the United States • Ability to work in states where American Rivers can do business

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, long-term and short-term disability, and life insurance • After one year of service, 3% employer contribution to retirement/financial security plan • 100% vesting upon participation • Four weeks of paid leave • Eleven paid holidays • Three floating holidays • Sick leave • Focus Fridays with no internal meetings • Professional development opportunities • Home office stipend • Sabbatical leave every seven years • Paid parental leave of six weeks with one year of service • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities