WHO WE ARE
Since 1984, Larkin Street Youth Services has been committed to helping San Francisco’s most vulnerable youth ages 12-24 move beyond street life. This commitment has fueled the development of a comprehensive continuum of services that is nationally recognized as a model of innovative and effective care. We offer stability, safety, and the opportunity for a better life.
Larkin Street’s continuum provides a range of housing options—from immediate emergency shelter to permanent supportive housing—in addition to essential wraparound services that offer kids the resources and skills they need to exit street life. Supportive services include education, technology and employment training; healthcare, including mental health, substance abuse, and HIV services; and case management.
Our success rate in helping kids get off the street for good testifies to a simple truth: Given safety, shelter, compassion, guidance, and enough positive options, kids can find their own solutions. We believe all youth deserve the chance to reach their full potential and contribute their best to the world.
The Chief Operating Officer is a member of the Senior Management Team, works closely with other members of senior management, and reports directly to the Executive Director to ensure that the organization continues to grow while maintaining financial stability. In this role, he/she will be involved in senior management activities such as retreats, weekly meetings, personnel management issues, fund raising plans, and long term strategic planning. The COO is expected to operate on both strategic and functional levels in order to develop and oversee internal controls, work with employees at all levels of the organization; manage financial reporting, modeling and forecasting; maintain LSYS’ facilities, and ensure compliance with all reporting entities. The successful candidate will understand the language and expectations of both the non-profit and for-profit worlds, and have demonstrated his/her ability to foster communications across these contexts.
He/she is responsible for the functional accountabilities and professional development of the Finance Department. This includes communicating organization goals to the team, as well as on-going supervision.
He/she is also a leader in developing innovations that support the organization’s mission effectively. The organization is contemplating an improved MIS that will enhance project tracking ability, integrating financial reporting, donor/fund development, program and billing data and multiple reporting requirements to a diverse group of stakeholders.
General responsibilities include:
• Ownership of all metrics related to the financial health and stability of the organization, evidenced by the ability to provide fact-based updates at any time.
• Collaborate with the senior management team to build the organization’s annual budget, balancing projected income from revenue streams against forecasted expenses across multiple departments and revenue pools,
• Develop and management financial practices, accounting procedures, and internal controls to ensure that budgets are maintained and that appropriate documentation exists for all reporting entities.
• Direct the day to day management of income and expenditures, accounts receivable and payable and the general ledger.
• Oversee for the upkeep, repair and maintenance of the LSYS’ facilities.
• Supervision of staff and coordinate the work of outside vendors and services.
• Work closely with the organization’s financial institutions that ensure the strength of the organization’s cash flow throughout seasonal ebbs and flows of income.
• Provide senior management and the Board with financial reports, profit analysis, and cost/benefit projections in formats that are both usable and understandable for a variety of audiences.
• Develop and utilize forward-looking, predictive models and activity-based financial analyses to provide strategic insight into the organization’s operations and business plans.
• Serve as a responsible and authoritative financial expert for the organizational, oversees the annual audit, and ensure compliance with all reporting entities, including an array of foundation and government funders.
• Remain current in field of non-profit audit best practices, and current with California state law regarding non-profit operations.
Additional responsibilities:
• Act as the responsible party and provide oversight and recommendations pertaining to facilities management (maintenance and repair), security of the organization’s owned and leases properties, health and safety, engineering and information systems.
• Responsible for the retention of Finance Department staff and recommendations for their training and mentoring for their advancement within the organization.
Job Certifications:
• Passionate commitment to the organization’s mission
• Bachelor’s degree, plus CPA and/or MBA, (both preferred)
• 5-10 years progressively responsible experience in financial management, preferably in both for-profits and non-profits, with responsibilities for multi-faceted direction, oversight, planning and systems development
• Significant leadership experience with boards, advisory committees, external organizations and peers.
• Experience working as a financial officer, controller or accounting professional.
• Demonstrated success as an energetic, passionate and dynamic leader who can manage other professionals and foster subordinates’ professional development, is flexible, will take initiative and problem solve, and will work to develop and exceed goals
• Superior analytical and abstract reasoning skills, plus excellent organization skills and excellent verbal and written communications skills required.
Professional Performance:
1) Maintain professional standards of performance, demeanor and appearance at all times.
2) Perform tasks and responsibilities in a complete and timely manner, complying with agency policies and standards and conforming to scheduling requirements of this job description and program.
3) Maintain a creative, team-building, cooperative approach to job performance and seek to bring a constructive, problem-solving orientation to all tasks.
4) Maintain an awareness of the agency's mission and work to promote the positive individual and social change goals it embodies.
5) Exercise discretion and professional judgment at all times keeping with the responsibilities carried personally and by the agency for the care and welfare of youth and families.
6) Actively strive to upgrade professional skills through engaging in appropriate professional training and experience.
7) Ability to work with diverse staff and excel in a multi-cultural environment.
Larkin Street Youth Services is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Larkin Street Youth Services seeks qualified candidates with interest in the Non-Profit Sector or Social Work. We are committed to embracing diversity and consider all applicants for all positions without regard to color, ethnic background, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, HIV/AIDS status, veteran status, or any other legally protected class. We encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply for any open position in which they feel qualified. For detailed information regarding this opportunity, please visit our website at http://www.larkinstreetyouth.org/employment/jobdetail.php?jobid=6
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