Reach Out and Read Chief Financial and Administration Officer

The Opportunity

As the Chief Financial and Administration Officer (CFAO), you will have the extraordinary opportunity to transform Reach Out and Read's financial and operational foundation into a strategic engine that drives mission impact and organizational growth. In this leadership role, you'll serve as the CEO's key strategic partner, architecting fiscal frameworks that align resources with programmatic priorities while designing strategies that ensure long-term sustainability.

Beyond traditional financial management, you'll lead all operational functions including talent management, IT infrastructure, and administrative systems—creating an integrated ecosystem where each element supports organizational excellence. You'll shape the vision for an exceptional employee experience, implement forward-thinking technology strategies, and ensure regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

As a vital member of the nine-person Senior Leadership Team, you'll help steer the organization toward its mission while actively contributing to Reach Out and Read's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This role represents a unique chance to connect financial stewardship directly to strategic outcomes, transforming support functions into drivers of organizational vision and creating measurable impact through thoughtful resource allocation and cross-functional leadership.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Include:

Financial Leadership & Management :

• Provide strategic level leadership and oversight of the financial management functions, including delivering high-quality financial analysis for the CEO and Board Leadership
• Serve as key strategist with the CEO in connecting financial resources to the overall strategic plan and managing funds to meet organizational needs
• Work with board leadership to manage investments and reserves to grow the overall financial foundation of the organization
• Provide strategic direction to the staff leading the partnership with the external accounting vendor
• Ensure accurate financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting to support data-driven decision making
• Serve as liaison to the Finance Committee of the Governing Board to partner with them as they help manage the overall organization and approve the annual budget
• Uphold organizational compliance by ensuring the timely and accurate submission of required reports and filings, while adhering to relevant accounting standards and legal regulations

Talent Management and Organizational Culture :

• Oversee Human Resources (HR) and collaborate with CEO on key HR priorities by providing leadership to the outsourced HR department
• Shape the vision, priorities, and plan for building on the existing talent/HR function to create an exceptional employee experience during organizational growth
• Supervise the process and strategy of hiring and retaining staff across the network, ensuring our team is mission-driven, diverse, and demonstrates the skills needed to excel
• Partner with the senior team to foster a culture of learning and professional development
• Promote diversity and inclusion efforts across the network in hiring and retaining diverse staff
• Manage contracted resources to ensure employment practices are compliant with local, state, and federal law
• Identify ideal structure for medium- and long-term HR function to support Reach Out and Read as a growing organization

Information Technology:

• Lead and oversee Information Technology services, currently outsourced to a contracted partner
• Set and oversee implementation of IT strategy that ensures best-in-class infrastructure, help desk support, and future planning
• Lead collaboration with Human Resources on relevant onboarding, offboarding, and other processes that span HR and IT functions
• Provide administrative oversight and implementation of select systems, including communication platforms

Operations Leadership:

• Ensure compliance with various local, state, and federal regulations (e.g., legal questions, trademark/intellectual property, contracts, audit components)
• Manage office-related administrative items, including facilities management for the national office in Boston, MA
• Oversee management of fringe benefits, 401(k) plans, and organizational insurance to ensure comprehensive employee support and compliance.

Senior Leadership:

• Serve as a member of the 9-person Senior Leadership Team and help lead the entire organization for effective progress towards meeting its mission
• Identify opportunities to integrate across functional teams; leverage strengths to take advantage of new opportunities and/or address organizational challenges
• Serve as an active participant in our ongoing aspiration to be an antiracist organization
• Maintain a working knowledge of significant developments and trends in nonprofit leadership, finance, and operations

Qualifications and Experience:

There are innumerable ways to learn, grow and excel professionally. We respect this when we review applications and take a broad look at the experience of each applicant. We want to get to know you and the unique strengths you will bring to the work. We'll honor your lived and professional experience as key aspects of your candidacy for the role and prioritize applicants with experience dismantling the structural inequities that disproportionately impact children and families with traditionally marginalized identities. We are most likely to be interested in your candidacy if you can demonstrate the majority of the qualifications and experiences listed below:

• Commitment to increasing equity in opportunity and outcomes for children and to recognizing factors known to significantly impact differential outcomes for children
• 10+ years of progressive financial leadership experience, preferably in nonprofit organizations
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field; MBA or CPA strongly preferred
• Proven experience in strategic financial planning, budgeting, and resource allocation
• Experience managing outsourced vendor relationships in finance, HR, and IT
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, with the ability to manage relationships with a diverse set of colleagues and stakeholders
• Belief in the power of diversity and excitement for working in a diverse culture and on diverse teams
• Successful track record in setting priorities, managing relationships and ability to work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills and use of data to drive decision-making and to build consensus
• Experience in nonprofit accounting, compliance, and reporting requirements
• Ability to translate complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, meet deadlines, and adapt flexibly within a growing organization

Position Specifications:

This is a full-time, exempt position remote position. Occasional travel will be required for organizational meetings and events and to visit the national office.

Compensation and Benefits:

The salary range for this position is $175,000-195,000 commensurate with experience. Reach Out and Read offers a robust benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan with match, paid time off, and more.

Commitment to Diversity:

Reach Out and Read is committed to building an organization that embraces diversity, pursues equity, and fosters an environment of inclusion. Reach Out and Read sits at the intersection of health and education, uniquely positioned to play a critical role in addressing systemic disparities and inequities in the public health framework. Reach Out and Read strives to be an antiracist organization, using its influence to fight against social injustice by supporting a culture of learning, empowerment, equity, and a deep appreciation for the unique experiences that we each bring to our communities. And, we believe that changing the world begins with holding ourselves and our workplace to that same standard.

About Reach Out and Read:

Reach Out and Read gives young children a foundation for success and reaches 4.6 million children across the country – half of whom identify as BIPOC and two thirds of whom come from low-income families. The nonprofit recently set a strategic goal to double its impact by 2030, to serve 10 million young children — 50 percent of all U.S. children from birth to 5.

In deep partnership with a network of clinicians, Reach Out and Read leverages the near-universal reach of the pediatric well-child visit. It uses children's books and shared reading to support parents and caregivers in strengthening healthy relationships with their infants and young children from birth through 5 years old.

Reach Out and Read works directly with pediatric care providers to share the lifelong benefits of parents reading aloud with their children daily. Nurturing, language-rich interactions like shared reading give young children a foundation for success — building early language and literacy skills; teaching curiosity, patience, and empathy; and creating deep bonds between parents and their children. By integrating our evidence-based model into pediatric care and providing the tools and encouragement families need to read aloud together, we can transform pediatric care practices, foster healthy families and communities, and give children of all backgrounds and means a better start to life.

The Impact:

• Reach Out and Read program sites are located in 6,500 clinics, safety net hospitals, medical systems, and other healthcare settings in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• Reach Out and Read serves 4.6 million children and their families annually.
• More than 7.7 million new, developmentally appropriate books are integrated into well-child visits with families annually.
• 39,000 clinicians currently participate in Reach Out and Read
• Our peer-reviewed body of evidence demonstrates that Reach Out and Read parents are two-and-a-half times more likely to read regularly to their children, and that children experiencing Reach Out and Read show enhanced language development.

To learn more about Reach Out and Read, visit www.reachoutandread.org.

Reach Out and Read is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Reach Out and Read is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, cultural heritage, ancestry, political belief, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability or veteran status. Reach Out and Read is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and we are committed to making special accommodations for your interview or work as a member of our team. If specific accommodations are needed, please email hr@reachoutandread.org and our HR team will work to accommodate your needs.