Wildsight is looking for an Operations Director to hitch our staff. This place is a key member of the senior administration staff, working intently with the Government Director, Program Managers, and Board of Administrators to make sure the fiscal integrity and environment friendly functioning of the group and help the long-term sustainability of the group. Core tasks embody administration and organizational insurance policies, technique and determination making, constructing environment friendly and efficient methods, organizational budgeting and forecasting, monetary reporting, and human sources coverage and implementation. This function is crucial for the well being and success of the group and works straight with numerous our program groups.
About Wildsight
Wildsight is an environmental charity with a mission to guard wilderness, wildlife and clear water, encourage the subsequent technology and encourage sustainable communities within the Columbia Basin area of BC. Our imaginative and prescient is to encourage a shared neighborhood want to guard the pure world for future generations. With 35 years of expertise, we’re acknowledged as a pacesetter in large-scale conservation, sustainable neighborhood initiatives and environmental training. We work intently with our community of six native Wildsight branches.
Our Staff
Our core staff is made up of 16 passionate, devoted and educated people who encourage one another each day by way of our dedication to creating change and defending nature. We had been doing digital work lengthy earlier than Covid. Whereas our headquarters are situated in Kimberley, our staff is situated all through the Columbia Basin. We’re dedicated to advancing our understanding of, and dedication to, Reconciliation and Range, Fairness, Justice and Inclusion.
Concerning the Place
This can be a full-time everlasting place, 37.5 hours/week, however a 0.8 FTE place could be attainable if desired. The perfect begin date for this place is January 2023, however we’re prepared to be versatile for the suitable candidate.
Location
We welcome functions from the Kootenay area; nonetheless being primarily based in Kimberley and capable of work from our headquarters could be supreme. We’re prepared to think about alternate preparations with the profitable candidate, however there could be a requirement to journey to the headquarters with some frequency. Kimberley was lately voted BC’s Finest Small City; nestled between the Purcell and Rocky Mountains and with a inhabitants of 7500, Kimberley is a novel neighborhood with many alternatives for nature-based recreation. Positioned half-hour from Cranbrook, the total vary of facilities are simply accessible.
Wages and Advantages
$57,750- $67,568 commensurate with expertise
Wildsight presents 5 weeks of paid trip to help psychological well being and connection to the landscapes we work to guard. We additionally provide a Non-public Well being Providers Plan to assist cowl dental, prescription and different medical prices.
About You
- You’re fantastically organized and revel in engaged on administrative coverage, danger administration, and human useful resource points.
- You’re a methods thinker who goals to optimize how organizations work and discover higher methods to acheive our objectives..
- You could have robust interpersonal abilities and work properly with small groups.
- You could have a eager eye for finance and why numbers matter, not simply within the particulars, but additionally the massive image.
- You take pleasure in speaking monetary knowledge, operational and administrative info non-financially/administratively minded folks and groups.
- You could have a minimal of three+ years of earlier expertise in a non-profit or different operational function on a small staff, enterprise administration, finance or accounting associated function; non-profit/charity expertise is a large asset.
- You could have data of accounting, administration, bookkeeping, auditing, inner controls, and payroll finest practices. Having expertise in on-line accounting methods (e.g.
- Quickbooks) could be an enormous asset however will not be required.
- You’re comfy with expertise and on-line platforms.
- You’re affected person and calm within the face of a number of, competing calls for, and deadlines and might assess precedence and handle your time accordingly.
- You maintain a powerful conservation ethic and are keen about environmental points.
Obligations and Duties
Reporting to the Government Director, the Operations Director has a broad remit over Wildsight’s administration, operations, funds and HR.
Operations
- Optimize methods for effectivity and effectiveness throughout the group, working with completely different groups to enhance processes and maximize influence This would come with working with our Schooling staff, with the Youth Local weather Corps and on fundraising.
- Assist and lead long-term planning to make sure the sustainability and stability of the group.
- Construct robust relationships with our 6 Branches, supporting our shared work, bettering effectivity and effectiveness, and managing reporting necessities between Wildsight Branches and Wildsight Regional.
- Develop a powerful relationship with Board of Administrators to help efficient and knowledgeable governance, together with participation in and help for Board sub-committees, together with the Fund Growth and Human Assets sub-committees.
- Coordinate growth of annual work plans and annual opinions with program groups
- Make sure the Board of Administrators, workers, and contractors carry acceptable and sufficient insurance coverage protection; handle danger administration insurance policies.
- Lead a evaluation to think about new fashions for membership construction to maximise engagement.
- Assist the Environmental Schooling Staff in creating new funding fashions to maximise long-term sustainability and stability of packages.
- Work intently with the Fundraising Staff to steward particular person giving.
- Plan and coordinate key occasions, like our AGM, Board-team retreats, bi-annual gathering, and so forth.
Finance
- Work with Program Managers to develop program and organizational budgets and forecasts and environment friendly administrative and monetary methods.
- Present fiscal steering to the senior administration staff and Board of Administrators. Current quarterly monetary statements to the Board of Administrators.
- Oversee bookkeeping, together with financial institution and bank card reconciliations. This may very well be your job however extra probably can be carried out by a bookkeeper, who you oversee.
- Oversee money move, accounts payable, and accounts receivable.
- Oversee payroll.
- Oversee processing of charitable donations and receipting.
- Lead the annual exterior auditing course of.
Human Assets
- Present onboarding to new workers and contractors.
- Write contracts and worker agreements for employees and contractors.
- Draft and implement human useful resource insurance policies; evaluation current insurance policies on an annual foundation and suggest modifications as acceptable.
- Oversee trip monitoring.
- Coordinate annual workers efficiency opinions, organizational opinions and remuneration and advantages opinions.
- Reply questions and deal with workers points as wanted.
Fund Growth and Grant Administration
- Assist fund growth by way of offering monetary enter on funding proposals and dealing with the fundraising staff to help particular person giving.
- Handle the grant administration course of, monitoring proposal and reporting deadlines.
The profitable candidate will carry a breadth of expertise and ability to the core capabilities recognized above, nonetheless proficiency in all areas will not be anticipated. You may be key to defining the administrator function.
To Apply
Please submit your resume and canopy letter in a single PDF to Robyn Duncan, Government Director, robyn(at)wildsight.ca. Inform us why this job excites you, what you’ll carry to it and why you’re the finest candidate for the job. Wildsight is dedicated to variety, fairness and inclusion in our hiring processes and work surroundings and we encourage girls, folks of color, folks of Indigenous ancestry and LGBTQ2+ people to use for this place. The place will stay open till crammed, however the first spherical of interviews is focused for late 2022/early 2023. We thank all candidates for his or her curiosity, nonetheless, we are going to solely contact these chosen for an interview.
