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Role Description

Afton Partners seeks a Senior Director to lead strategic finance initiatives with our charter school client partners around the country. This is a full-time, remote position within the United States, requiring up to 10% travel.

• Directly advise school leaders on critical financial decisions.
• Expertly navigate difficult situations and discussions by building and leveraging trusting, collaborative, and effective relationships with school leaders, boards, and their financial partners.
• Directly advise charter school boards, CEOs, CFOs, and other leaders on critical opportunities to improve their financial sustainability, governance and compliance practices, forecasting accuracy, and decisions about facilities, growth, and operational plans.
• Independently lead successful projects/engagements through client and team management.
• Ensure assigned client partners are satisfied with Afton’s services through thoughtful project planning and staffing, proactive communication, adjusted approaches based on feedback, and adherence to the scope, goals, and allocated resources of each project.
• Independently and collaboratively develop financial projections and financial analysis, prepare client-facing plans, and advise charter school leaders on important decisions.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects of varying complexity and duration.
• Coach, mentor, and support colleagues.
• Support the development of colleague’s technical, project management, and communication skills through formal coaching as a project leader and informal mentoring and information sharing.
• Advance Afton and our client partners’ goals by serving as a thought partner to Afton colleagues, within and beyond the Charter Finance team.
• Lead by example by soliciting feedback reflecting on growth areas, and taking action.

Qualifications

• A minimum of ten (10) years of relevant work experience in education or non-profit finance, financial services, management consulting, or similar roles.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, particularly in virtual environments.
• Demonstrated experience identifying potential challenges and taking initiative, creating structures to address ambiguous or complex problems, leading teams, and coaching and developing colleagues.
• Excellent project management skills as demonstrated by project outcomes and a positive experience for clients and colleagues.
• A strong interest in our client partners’ mission and communities.
• Alignment with Afton’s core values.

Requirements

• Demonstrated proficiency in financial projection modeling, financial planning, budgeting, school debt financing processes, and communication.
• Advanced project management and coaching skills.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits, including health insurance, paid time off, and 401(k) with company match.
• The salary range for the position is $160,000-$180,000 per year.