This role will be based in our Richmond, Charlottesville, Falls Church, or Petersburg offices.
Salary Note: Salary range is $90,000 to $134,660.36 based on years of relevant experience and LAJC s formal salary scale, upward 12% cost-of-living adjustment ($100,800 to $150,819.61) is available for positions based in Falls Church. To allow for salary growth within the position over time, the anticipated hiring range for this position is between $90,000 - $119,122.63 ($100,800 - $133,417.34 12% adjustment for Falls Church). Placement on the range will be based on factors such as years of relevant experience, budget, and internal equity.
About the Legal Aid Justice Center
The Legal Aid Justice Center is a nationally recognized, non-profit organization that partners with low-income clients and communities of color in Virginia to fight for racial, social, and economic justice. We understand that the harms our clients endure are inextricably linked to overarching systems of injustice. Together we are dismantling those systems through a combination of community organizing, litigation, policy advocacy, public relations, and individual legal services.
Founded in 1967, LAJC has offices in Charlottesville, Richmond, Petersburg, and Falls Church and provides services under six key program areas: Civil Rights & Racial Justice (focuses on the criminal legal system), Housing & Consumer Justice, Youth Justice, Health Justice & Public Benefits, Immigrant Justice, and Worker Justice. As examples of LAJC s recent work, our lawsuit and organizing against the state forced reform of Virginia s unemployment insurance system, including advocacy that resulted in the distribution of over $1 billion in illegally withheld payments to over 160,000 Virginians. During the pandemic, we demanded and secured a statewide eviction moratorium and emergency pandemic protections that helped hundreds of families avoid eviction. We reduced incarceration across the state, including reducing the population of a local immigration detention center down to historically low levels through a coordinated effort of organizing paired with impact and individual litigation. Our staff are on the front lines of some of the most important anti-poverty fights happening today.
With a staff of over 90, the past few years have been a time of exciting growth and opportunity for the organization. In addition to the growth of programmatic efforts including increased organizing capacity, LAJC has expanded its operations and administrative capacity, created new opportunities for professional growth and leadership among staff, engaged in ongoing race equity work, and explored changes to organizational structure to deepen its efforts to create long-term, sustainable, community-driven change.
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For more information about LAJC s work and programs, visit www.justice4all.org.
About the Position:
As a member of the organization's senior management team, the Director of Finance is responsible for strategically developing, maintaining, and overseeing the operations that support the financial health and sustainability of the organization. This role directly supervises a team of finance and accounting professionals to take primary responsibility for managing the financial, accounting, grant accounting, budgeting and treasury functions of the organization. The Director of Finance also oversees real estate leases and both owned and leased office properties, including assessing and managing future office expansions or relocations. In this capacity, the individual works with LAJC's four onsite office managers to ensure our facilities appropriately support the organization's strategic goals and operations.
As the finance and accounting subject-matter on the senior management team, this individual must possess a deep understanding of and significant experience complying with nonprofit accounting principles. Commitment to service-oriented leadership is required. Because this individual balances a variety of responsibilities and collaborates with people throughout the organization, the position requires a high degree of flexibility and comfort with ambiguity; a positive, solution-oriented attitude; significant initiative and problem-solving skills; and attention to details.
Job Duties:
Organizational Leadership
Accounting and Fiscal Management
Grants and Federal Reporting
Board of Directors Relationships and Responsibilities
People Manager Duties and Responsibilities
Quality Improvement Duties and Responsibilities:
Facilities Management and Growth Planning:
Racial Equity: Promotes racial equity across all dimensions, including within LAJC, by doing the following:
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:
A Note to Potential Candidates: Studies have shown that women, trans, non-binary folks, and BIPOC are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every single one of the qualifications as described in a job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization, and strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don't believe you meet every one of the qualifications described.
Location: This role can be based in any of our offices Charlottesville, Falls Church, Richmond, or Petersburg. Occasional travel between offices will be required. Although a regular presence in the office is required, LAJC offers a remote work policy to support employees in co-creating schedules and arrangements that allow us all to do our best work.
Application Deadline: June 3rd, 2024, is the last day applications will be accepted. We accept applications on a rolling basis and encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible.
Salary: Salary range is $90,000 to $134,660.36 based on years of relevant experience and LAJC s formal salary scale, upward 12% cost-of-living adjustment ($100,800 to 150,819.61) is available for positions based in Falls Church. To allow for salary growth within the position over time, the anticipated hiring range for this position is between $90,000 - $119,122.63 ($100,800 - $133,417.34 12% adjustment for Falls Church). Placement on the range will be based on factors such as years of relevant experience, budget, and internal equity.
Vaccination Requirement: The Legal Aid Justice Center requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have an approved medical or religious exemption as a qualification of employment. Proof of vaccination or accommodation request must be provided within one day of employment.
The Legal Aid Justice Center is an equal opportunity employer, committed to inclusive hiring and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We strongly encourage candidates of all identities, experiences, and communities to apply. The Legal Aid Justice Center is committed to strengthening the voices of our low-income clients, working in collaboration with community partners, and rooting out the inequities that keep people in poverty. We strive to take on the issues that have broad impact on our client communities and to be responsive to client input. Recognizing the particular impact of racism on our clients and staff, we devote special attention to dismantling racial injustice. All applicants must be dedicated to working in and sustaining an environment that enables staff and clients to feel empowered, valued, respected, and safe. In reviewing applications, we look for evidence that applicants have experience and/or thoughtfulness in working with traditionally marginalized populations.
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