Flex Fund Coordinator
Position: Flex Fund Coordinator
FLSA: Exempt Status: Full-Time
Reports to: Sr. Manager, Support Services & Community Partnerships
Position Summary: The Flex Fund Coordinator (FFC) is responsible for partnering with JVS coaches and the finance team to administer financial support for clients to overcome obstacles to training and employment. The FFC is a member of the Support Services and Community Partnerships Team, which works to remove barriers to employment for JVS clients and applicants through building reciprocal relationships with Community Based Organizations that address these challenges. JVS is in the process of creating a pool of funds to help solve some of these challenges for our clients. In addition to this newly created fund, the FFC will oversee the administrative process for a separate funding source for a specific program, adhering to each program’s unique guidelines. The FFC oversees the process of administering $250K+ of funds to clients annually and requires the ability to solve complex problems while navigating bureaucratic systems with minimal oversight, as they coordinate a portfolio of clients’ needs through JVS’s financial support programs.
This is a hybrid position and will require at least two days working in the office at JVS and other days remotely.
Essential Job Functions:
Accountability and Results Focused:
- In collaboration with Client Services leadership, design, implement, and improve upon a process to administer flex funds to JVS clients
- Administer an additional, separate Client Support funds program, meeting all funder and programmatic requirements
- Be willing to learn and apply knowledge of local systems to help clients navigate benefits and services such as housing, childcare, DTA benefits, unemployment, and other needed resources
Build relationships, collaboration and teamwork:
- Support and promote the mission and philosophy of JVS both internally and outside the agency
- Partners with Support Services and Community Partnerships Team members to meet CS goals
- Partners with coaches from across the organization to meet their clients' needs
Administrative/ Communications
- Excellent financial management skills
- Proven ability to prioritize and organize tasks while working between departments
- Independent judgment and discretion to assess and meet client financial needs
- Ability to solve complex problems and navigate bureaucratic systems.
- Outstanding interpersonal, customer service and organizational skills required
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment required
Qualifications and Experience
- BA/BS 4-year college degree and 3+ years experience project management experience
- Experience with government contracts and funding initiatives preferred
- Strong knowledge of issues related to individuals with significant barriers to employment
- Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills required
- Salesforce skills preferred
Key Competencies:
- Instructional planning
- Instructional delivery
- Progress reporting /tracking
- Student skill attainment
- Promotes Agency
- Initiative
- Building Relationships, Collaboration and Teamwork
- Adapting to Change
- Accountability and Results Focused
- Communication Skills
- Cultural Competency and Respect
- Planning/Organizing
JVS CULTURE:
JVS is strongly committed to diversity and a workplace environment that respects, appreciates and values employee differences and similarities. By providing and supporting a work culture that fosters and builds upon diversity and its strengths, JVS will better serve our local communities and continue to provide quality services.
JVS is an employment at-will organization and an equal opportunity employer committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, JVS prohibits retaliation against an applicant or employee because he or she has engaged in protected activity under the statutes prohibiting discrimination in the workplace.
About JVS Boston:Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) is a non-profit, non-sectarian agency that is one of the largest providers of workforce development services in Greater Boston. Our mission is to: Empower individuals from diverse communities to overcome barriers to employment and begin building careers. Establish partnerships with employers to hire and train productive workforces.
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