GeoPolist
Senior Nonprofit Strategy & Finance Consultant 20 Degrees
GeoPolist, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Come and join a dynamic team as we expand our mission of creating sustainable and impactful nonprofits and social enterprises! If you are a person who thrives using your leadership experience and technical skills to create real social impact, the role of Senior Nonprofit Strategy & Finance Consultant could be a match.
Our Social Finance team specializes in empowering nonprofits to build toward financial sustainability with revenue strategies that actually work. We understand the limitations of traditional revenue models within the nonprofit sector. Our innovative team seeks to create, test, and implement new approaches to revenue for nonprofits, particularly those between $1M and $10M in annual revenue. Using a combination of deep experience in the social sector, rigorous financial methods, exceptional business insights, and authentic facilitation and coaching skills, we support nonprofits through critical growth and sustainability questions.
The Senior Nonprofit Strategy & Finance Consultant role is perfect for someone who wants to leverage their hard won experience and expertise to advance nonprofit sustainability in a fast‑paced and values‑driven environment. The Senior Consultant augments 20 Degrees’ team of nonprofit finance experts by translating their deep experience into actionable insights and recommendations for the project teams they’ll serve on and the client engagements they will lead.
Who You Are:
If you possess extensive experience and knowledge within the social and business sectors, and are dissatisfied with the traditional funding models, this role is for you. Ideal candidates would have senior‑level experience leading nonprofit operations and development, social enterprises, or small businesses.
We seek someone with the ability to tap their experiences within the philanthropic and/or social enterprise sector to adopt and implement the 20 Degrees approach to earned revenue with flexibility and openness. We are building a rocket ship here. Are you willing to go along for the journey?
Essential Responsibilities
Client Deliverables and Support (75%):
Client Engagement & Support: You will be the first point of contact for clients (nonprofit executives and board members) as a facilitator, guide, and subject matter expert by meeting leaders’ questions with significant experience, deep insights, and confident facilitation style.
Deliverable Creation & Client Facilitation: You will support nonprofit leaders by delivering 20 Degrees’ products, including:
Earned Revenue: support nonprofits focused on revenue diversification through exploring, validating, and implementing earned revenue lines; facilitate workshops and create strategy decks and reports that summarize activities and set recommendations.
Scenario Planning: support nonprofits concerned about volatility and uncertainty through facilitating workshops centered around scenario planning; create action plans and financial projections.
Financial Strategy & Modeling: support clients with dynamic financial questions; adapt or create financial modeling tools to help clients make sound decisions.
Revenue & Strategic Planning: support nonprofits in future planning by conducting strategic planning retreats and workshops; create frameworks to support their vision.
Solo & Dual Deployment: Lead and conduct technically rigorous projects individually and play a pivotal role in cross‑functional projects as a thought leader and project lead.
Quality, Efficiency & Excellence: Advise 20 Degrees’ work with high quality, adhering to a standard of excellence and thoroughness expected by our clients.
End-to-End Client Management (15%):
Project Management: Ensure the timeliness of deliverables, workflows, and overall project timelines while maintaining high quality.
Administration & Coordination: Act as the point of contact for managing, coordinating, and scheduling your project portfolio.
Collaboration & Team Coordination: Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure a smooth and successful engagement.
Team, Culture, & Impact Contributions (10%):
Culture & Values: contribute to the culture of 20 Degrees focused on scarcity slaying, field building, championing belonging, irreverent optimism, and truth‑telling.
Cross‑Pollination: create connections across departments to strengthen culture and identify collaboration areas.
Quality & Impact: contribute to project debriefs to examine quality and ensure impact.
Professional Development: continue to hone your deep skillset with additional professional development.
Other duties as assigned.
What Work Looks Like:
Your success is measured by the satisfaction and positive impact of your work on our clients. You’ll meet scoped deliverables, understand client needs deeply, and create and deliver quality tools and frameworks while stewarding client relationships.
Success means meeting high quality expectations, delivering on assigned projects, managing tasks efficiently, and fostering client relationships for more effective and profitable outcomes.
Qualifications
10‑12+ years of experience with nonprofits, impact‑focused startups, or consultancies during key moments or challenging times leading to meaningful outcomes.
Broad experience with the nonprofit or social sector with a focus or interest in revenue generation or social enterprise.
Experience with client engagement and self‑directed work in both remote and in‑person settings.
Desire to be in a fast‑paced, remote‑first workplace that’s growing and still figuring out some of its processes.
Experience conceptualizing, creating, and presenting information decks, presentations, business tools, and briefs.
Demonstrated success and exceptional client satisfaction in managing a diverse portfolio of work with key stakeholders.
Fluency and confidence in financial analysis including interpreting nonprofit financial statements and developing financial models.
Ability to collaborate within a remote‑first culture, self‑manage with light supervision, and be a self‑starter.
Demonstrated ability to learn new technical skills quickly.
Not afraid to ask for clear instructions or help.
Openness or excitement to learn new things or see challenges as opportunities for growth.
Determination to find good answers, even when things aren’t super clear.
Additional Qualifications That Make You Stand Out:
Bilingual fluency (Spanish preferred).
Supporting, coordinating, or participating in nonprofit partnership and merger activities.
Strong market research, analytical research, and industry trend analysis experience.
A network within the nonprofit sector.
What we bring to the table:
This salaried position is 100% virtual and full‑time. There is potential to travel 10‑20% including occasional travel for in‑person delivery of presentations and facilitation and an all‑hands strategic team retreat in Washington, D.C. 20 Degrees is open to candidates located anywhere in the United States with the DC area, South Florida, and South Carolina being of additional interest. Willingness and ability to work within the Eastern Time Zone is necessary. Base salary ranges between $90,000 – $110,000 based on experience, plus a target bonus of 8% with generous benefits. 20 Degrees offers floating holidays paired with accrued vacation days and allows staff a collective opportunity to rest and reset. Employees can also give back to the community via a contribution to local or national nonprofits.
20 Degrees is an equal‑opportunity employer. We believe in the power of diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment in which all employees can thrive. If you are concerned you don’t match the qualifications for this job description exactly, yet you have a passion for our mission, please consider applying. We welcome diverse thinking and experiences!
Application instructions Please be sure to indicate you saw this position on geopolist.com.
20 Degrees is a consulting firm that helps nonprofits, early childhood organizations, small businesses, and social enterprises design revenue strategies that actually work.
We specialize in earned revenue, scenario planning, and financial modeling—equipping mission‑driven organizations with the tools, coaching, and decision support they need.
Since 2018, 20 Degrees has supported hundreds of organizations across the country in aligning money and mission.
The company’s revenue strategy work and COVID‑19 Toolkit for Nonprofit Leaders have been featured by The Washington Post, WAMU, Impact Alpha, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., 20 Degrees works nationally, with particular deep engagements in the Mid‑Atlantic, South Carolina, and Minnesota.
When the pressure is high and the path forward is unclear, leaders turn to 20 Degrees for clear, actionable solutions.
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Our Social Finance team specializes in empowering nonprofits to build toward financial sustainability with revenue strategies that actually work. We understand the limitations of traditional revenue models within the nonprofit sector. Our innovative team seeks to create, test, and implement new approaches to revenue for nonprofits, particularly those between $1M and $10M in annual revenue. Using a combination of deep experience in the social sector, rigorous financial methods, exceptional business insights, and authentic facilitation and coaching skills, we support nonprofits through critical growth and sustainability questions.
The Senior Nonprofit Strategy & Finance Consultant role is perfect for someone who wants to leverage their hard won experience and expertise to advance nonprofit sustainability in a fast‑paced and values‑driven environment. The Senior Consultant augments 20 Degrees’ team of nonprofit finance experts by translating their deep experience into actionable insights and recommendations for the project teams they’ll serve on and the client engagements they will lead.
Who You Are:
If you possess extensive experience and knowledge within the social and business sectors, and are dissatisfied with the traditional funding models, this role is for you. Ideal candidates would have senior‑level experience leading nonprofit operations and development, social enterprises, or small businesses.
We seek someone with the ability to tap their experiences within the philanthropic and/or social enterprise sector to adopt and implement the 20 Degrees approach to earned revenue with flexibility and openness. We are building a rocket ship here. Are you willing to go along for the journey?
Essential Responsibilities
Client Deliverables and Support (75%):
Client Engagement & Support: You will be the first point of contact for clients (nonprofit executives and board members) as a facilitator, guide, and subject matter expert by meeting leaders’ questions with significant experience, deep insights, and confident facilitation style.
Deliverable Creation & Client Facilitation: You will support nonprofit leaders by delivering 20 Degrees’ products, including:
Earned Revenue: support nonprofits focused on revenue diversification through exploring, validating, and implementing earned revenue lines; facilitate workshops and create strategy decks and reports that summarize activities and set recommendations.
Scenario Planning: support nonprofits concerned about volatility and uncertainty through facilitating workshops centered around scenario planning; create action plans and financial projections.
Financial Strategy & Modeling: support clients with dynamic financial questions; adapt or create financial modeling tools to help clients make sound decisions.
Revenue & Strategic Planning: support nonprofits in future planning by conducting strategic planning retreats and workshops; create frameworks to support their vision.
Solo & Dual Deployment: Lead and conduct technically rigorous projects individually and play a pivotal role in cross‑functional projects as a thought leader and project lead.
Quality, Efficiency & Excellence: Advise 20 Degrees’ work with high quality, adhering to a standard of excellence and thoroughness expected by our clients.
End-to-End Client Management (15%):
Project Management: Ensure the timeliness of deliverables, workflows, and overall project timelines while maintaining high quality.
Administration & Coordination: Act as the point of contact for managing, coordinating, and scheduling your project portfolio.
Collaboration & Team Coordination: Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure a smooth and successful engagement.
Team, Culture, & Impact Contributions (10%):
Culture & Values: contribute to the culture of 20 Degrees focused on scarcity slaying, field building, championing belonging, irreverent optimism, and truth‑telling.
Cross‑Pollination: create connections across departments to strengthen culture and identify collaboration areas.
Quality & Impact: contribute to project debriefs to examine quality and ensure impact.
Professional Development: continue to hone your deep skillset with additional professional development.
Other duties as assigned.
What Work Looks Like:
Your success is measured by the satisfaction and positive impact of your work on our clients. You’ll meet scoped deliverables, understand client needs deeply, and create and deliver quality tools and frameworks while stewarding client relationships.
Success means meeting high quality expectations, delivering on assigned projects, managing tasks efficiently, and fostering client relationships for more effective and profitable outcomes.
Qualifications
10‑12+ years of experience with nonprofits, impact‑focused startups, or consultancies during key moments or challenging times leading to meaningful outcomes.
Broad experience with the nonprofit or social sector with a focus or interest in revenue generation or social enterprise.
Experience with client engagement and self‑directed work in both remote and in‑person settings.
Desire to be in a fast‑paced, remote‑first workplace that’s growing and still figuring out some of its processes.
Experience conceptualizing, creating, and presenting information decks, presentations, business tools, and briefs.
Demonstrated success and exceptional client satisfaction in managing a diverse portfolio of work with key stakeholders.
Fluency and confidence in financial analysis including interpreting nonprofit financial statements and developing financial models.
Ability to collaborate within a remote‑first culture, self‑manage with light supervision, and be a self‑starter.
Demonstrated ability to learn new technical skills quickly.
Not afraid to ask for clear instructions or help.
Openness or excitement to learn new things or see challenges as opportunities for growth.
Determination to find good answers, even when things aren’t super clear.
Additional Qualifications That Make You Stand Out:
Bilingual fluency (Spanish preferred).
Supporting, coordinating, or participating in nonprofit partnership and merger activities.
Strong market research, analytical research, and industry trend analysis experience.
A network within the nonprofit sector.
What we bring to the table:
This salaried position is 100% virtual and full‑time. There is potential to travel 10‑20% including occasional travel for in‑person delivery of presentations and facilitation and an all‑hands strategic team retreat in Washington, D.C. 20 Degrees is open to candidates located anywhere in the United States with the DC area, South Florida, and South Carolina being of additional interest. Willingness and ability to work within the Eastern Time Zone is necessary. Base salary ranges between $90,000 – $110,000 based on experience, plus a target bonus of 8% with generous benefits. 20 Degrees offers floating holidays paired with accrued vacation days and allows staff a collective opportunity to rest and reset. Employees can also give back to the community via a contribution to local or national nonprofits.
20 Degrees is an equal‑opportunity employer. We believe in the power of diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment in which all employees can thrive. If you are concerned you don’t match the qualifications for this job description exactly, yet you have a passion for our mission, please consider applying. We welcome diverse thinking and experiences!
Application instructions Please be sure to indicate you saw this position on geopolist.com.
20 Degrees is a consulting firm that helps nonprofits, early childhood organizations, small businesses, and social enterprises design revenue strategies that actually work.
We specialize in earned revenue, scenario planning, and financial modeling—equipping mission‑driven organizations with the tools, coaching, and decision support they need.
Since 2018, 20 Degrees has supported hundreds of organizations across the country in aligning money and mission.
The company’s revenue strategy work and COVID‑19 Toolkit for Nonprofit Leaders have been featured by The Washington Post, WAMU, Impact Alpha, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., 20 Degrees works nationally, with particular deep engagements in the Mid‑Atlantic, South Carolina, and Minnesota.
When the pressure is high and the path forward is unclear, leaders turn to 20 Degrees for clear, actionable solutions.
#J-18808-Ljbffr