Project Advisor

About Movement Strategy Center (MSC)

Founded in 2001, Movement Strategy Center over the last two decades has been a social and environmental justice incubator, serving as a movement hub both housing visionaries and emergent networks, and providing core intermediary functions to advance ecosystem-wide impact: resourcing a robust and maturing ecosystem of leaders, networks, and projects, and offering core infrastructure support through fiscal sponsorship and philanthropic services.

In recent years, MSC’s in-house incubation efforts have focused on cross-sector movement building to cultivate the power necessary to accelerate a Just Transition from a world of domination, extraction, and violence, where the few live at the expense of the many – to a world of interdependence, liberation and resilience, where the many govern for the benefit of all. MSC centers Black, Indigenous, and People of Color intergenerational systems leaders and networks that are committed to transformation and boldly leaning into the future and whose communities are most impacted by extraction, domination, and violence.

MSC understands that transformative movements change the way we think, our structures and systems, the way we live, and even who we are. We recognize that we are whole people, and whole communities, and because the issues and problems we face are interconnected, our systemic solutions and movements must be interconnected as well. The way we achieve our goals and with whom are just as important as our outcomes.

Position

Overview

Reporting to the Director of Fiscal Sponsorship, the primary role of the Advisor is to advise fiscally-sponsored projects (FSPs) in support of their acceleration and growth. A relational role, the Advisor works with FSP staff leads as well as internal MSC departments to build FSP financial and operational literacy, and enhance their empowerment and organizational management. This position is central to the operationalizing of MSC’s commitment to transformative movement building. The Advisor seeks to understand FSPs’ operations and development goals to inform growth strategies.

The Advisor works in a team to provide responsive and effective fiscal sponsorship services. Through collaboration, this team identifies systemic service delivery and capacity building needs as well as growth and impact strategies.

Essential

Duties And

Responsibilities

Partner Management And Movement Cultivation

Manage a mixed partner portfolio of Model A and Model C fiscally-sponsored organizationsProvide high-level strategic, financial, and organizational guidance to fiscally-sponsored organizations for social impact and mission successPartner with internal MIIC team members, finance, legal, HR, and compliance experts to support activities of the portfolioDeliver high quality service as the point of contact for clients, ensuring a coordinated and efficient sharing of information, including communications, systems support, and a cadence of ongoing meeting touchpointsManage daily operational service requests with attention to timely responsiveness, and route incoming questions to appropriate departments and staffBuild and deepen a relational and transactional base for the long-term partnership with partnersWork collaboratively with team members and across departments to address financial and grant management, legal and risk compliance, human resources, and event support for clients to achieve significant and scalable impact toward team goalsIdentify gaps in operations and propose/create systems and processes, and bring in other departments where neededProactively support compliance with grant provisions, state and local laws and regulations, MSC policies, and knowledge of relevant lobbying activityServe as a main source of knowledge for MSC’s policies, and procedures, to provide proactive literacy support on our processes and systems (ADP, Xero, Bill.com)Partner with Finance Department to track the financial health and sustainability of projects, and support the annual budgeting processSupport operational, evaluative, business development, and strategic efforts for continuous improvement and asset growthAssist in cultivation of relationships with individual, foundation, and corporate funding partners to support fund development as neededSupport on-boarding, policy development, and business development processes as neededLeverage and deepen expertise to curate relationships and knowledge in a specific focus area (e.g., issue, functional skill, community)

Capacity Building And Thought Leadership

Support, contribute to, and implement strategic programmatic work for the MIIC TeamIdentify emerging trends, and sustainable initiatives that can be brought into MSCPlan and support MIIC programming, trainings, events, and convenings and briefings related to issue areas to expand and deepen issue, and power-building knowledgeRepresent MSC externally and build collaborative networks across sectors and issue areas,in support of business development strategiesResearch, propose, and present at conferences, gatherings, professional associations, and other external eventsCurate

educational and capacity building materials for MSC organizations and the field as neededParticipate in internal and cross-department teams to identify and create materials for events, capacity building services, and business development as needed

Knowledge &

Skills

A minimum of 5 years

experience working and/or actively volunteering in nonprofit, community-based, advocacy or public sector fieldsA minimum of 3 years

experience in a leadership role managing operations, finance o development for a nonprofitA minimum of 2 years

experience in finance and/or accounting, preferably non-profit

experience providing innovative and values-based business development strategiesPassionate about building the capacity of individuals, organizations, networks and sectors towards transformational, strategic and sustainable goalsSkill in providing capacity building

education and trainingsStrong tech literacy

skills, proficiency in Google Suite including Google Sites and utilizing online work productivity toolsAbility to work independently and in teams, while managing multiple projects with competing timelinesFast learner and able to integrate new systems collaborativelyAbility to work independently and in teams, managing projects with competing timelinesStrong analytical and critical thinking

skillsStrong oral and written communication

skills; ability to present clearly and effectivelyAbility and willingness to adapt to systems, processes, and matrix managementPassionate about supporting organizational management and developmentValue systems-based design, operational excellence and a network-based ecosystemProactive and data-inspired innovator with strong strategic advising

skills

Experience tracking permissible lobbying activity for advocacy organizationsProficient in Xero and Bill.comProficient in Asana and other project management tools

Equal Employment Opportunity

Movement Strategy Center Is An

equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions.

Application Instructions

Only Candidates Who Meet The Above-stated

qualifications will be considered. To apply,

complete the application

requirements. No phone calls please.

Applicants With Disabilities

Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.