About the role

This position will support Afton’s public charter school finance practice with a keen focus on financial projection modeling and fiscal data analysis. The position will engage in consulting projects with public charter schools of all sizes, with the goal of strengthening our clients’ capacity to achieve and maintain long-term financial sustainability.

The pay range for this role is $90,000 - $110,000 USD per year.

What you'll do

• Build financial projection models for school systems, incorporating senior management’s strategic and operational plans.
• Quickly sense-check through metrics and input assumptions in data analytics for reasonability and feasibility.
• Provides analytics on key metrics for the forward-looking financial health of an organization.
• Draft communication and recommendation materials for clients with supervisor oversight.
• Communicate independently with clients for tactical project matters.

Qualifications

Our experience suggests that the following types of professional experiences and skills have prepared candidates for this work:

• Alignment with Afton's core values.
• Advanced financial acumen and financial projection modeling skills, developing projections with minimal supervision, using reasonable and well-researched assumptions.
• Demonstrates intermediate project management skills, leading work streams, meeting project deadlines, highlighting issues, and driving towards solutions.
• Demonstrates self-awareness.
• Intermediate supervisory skills.
• Strong verbal communication skills.
• Perform effectively in a remote team environment.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Zoom, and similar professional services software.
• You take initiative, solve problems, are a reliable team player, are flexible, quick and organized, and can take ambiguous problems/requests and structure a path for addressing them.
• A minimum of four years of relevant work experience.

About Afton Partners

Afton Partners is an impact-driven consultancy that reimagines and implements systems, policies, and practices that improve lives. We bring technical savvy and a relational approach to partnerships with clients across the early care and education, K-12, higher education, and workforce development sectors. Since 2011, Afton has collaborated on more than 150 initiatives in 40 states, and our clients include state and local government agencies, public school systems, charter schools, and philanthropies. We’re creative, committed, and energized by complexity. Together, we can solve our toughest societal challenges and co-create a future where each person has the opportunity for growth and fulfillment.