Manager, Consulting

What you’ll do:

Support with the design and delivery of new and innovative client work

• Facilitate in-person, remote, virtual meetings, and dialogues with nonprofit leaders that both identify and communicate key findings and recommendations for addressing core strategic and financial issues.
• Develop presentations for clients that both identify and communicate key findings and recommendations for addressing core strategic and financial issues.
• Collaborate with other departments (Community Engagement, Loan Origination, Finance, Marketing & Communications, and Learning & Impact) in designing workplans and project goals.
• Lead work with clients to identify and frame key financial, strategic, and organizational issues.

Conduct in-depth financial analyses, organizational assessments, and sector research

• Utilize NFF’s proprietary Analysis Engine for multi-year historic financial analysis of clients and cohorts; interpret complex financial information from audits and other sources to accurately reflect unrestricted operating results, liquidity, and availability.
• Build custom financial models that provide the data to test options and scenarios.
• Synthesize data and integrate findings into clear, accessible materials; write and present reports that outline key findings, options, opportunities, risks, scenarios, and recommendations.

Contribute to sustaining and optimizing the consulting infrastructure

• Proactively follow up and help develop analyses and materials for meetings and manage follow up of items resulting from meetings.
• Support the evolution of Consulting models, tools, services, and content including maintaining the consulting resources on the NFF Knowledge Wiki Platform.
• Lead and manage meetings, agendas, notes, feedback, and meeting schedules.
• Work closely with and collaborate with key stakeholders both internal and external to monitor program quality and serve the organizational mission and aspirations for core constituents.
• Liaise closely with NFF partners to support the design of communications tools, including messaging and outreach efforts to promote and brand NFF’s mission and services to the community.

Inform and support department growth activities

• Collect and analyze data via meetings, on-site involvement, and research; use relevant data to inform business decisions and inform plans to achieve outreach and engagement strategies that solicit and strengthen community engagement at NFF.
• Provide effective support, suggestions, and editing on drafting of high-quality deliverables, including concept papers, presentations, proposal submissions and other development documents.
• Communicate insights and actionable recommendations for concept notes, proposals, and reports to the Development department.
• Gather and elevate trends, perspectives, learnings through dialogue, networking, and connections to effectively advance knowledge of community aspirations and goals.

Who you are:

• You have a minimum of 5 years of professional work experience, preferably in nonprofit management, philanthropy, government, consulting and/or financial services.
• You possess knowledge in nonprofit accounting, finance, and excel-based financial model building
• You have strong relationship-building approach with the ability to center the needs of clients and communities
• You possess strong project management skills with demonstrated success managing multiple projects
• You are a strategic thinker; you combine strategy and innovation to successfully design and implement processes, systems and policies that support the organization's overall vision and growth
• You have strong analytical skills and can present complex analytics in an accessible manner
• You maintain a high level of integrity and can handle sensitive information in a confidential manner
• You have exceptional and proactive communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• You have experience facilitating adult learning sessions, such as webinars and presentations
• You enjoy collaborating with team members who are working together to re-envision how we combine investments and financial expertise to drive change in communities
• You promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality. 
• You are flexible, adaptable, and willing to pivot on short notice to meet the organization’s needs
• You possess a commitment to continuous improvement and demonstrate a growth mindset
• You embody NFF’s mission, core values and commitment to equity