NON PROFIT STAFF ACCOUNTANT

Non Profit Staff Accountant sought for The HistoryMakers, a national African American nonprofit educational/archival institution (https://www.thehistorymakers.org) with annual revenues of $2 million, seeking to grow to $3 million annually. He/she will report directly to the Chief of Staff and President. The applicant must be proficient in file management and extremely well-organized. He/she must have 3-7 years of prior fund accounting and business management experience.

COMPENTENCIES

Experience

1. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
2. 3-7 years of fund and cost accounting experience.
3. Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. Knowledge of FileMaker Pro preferred. Strong and accurate typing speed and database entry.
4. Prior experience supporting a capital campaign.
5. Prior non profit experience preferred.

Responsibilities:

1. Handle monthly bill payments, bank and credit card reconciliations using Quickbooks.
2. Maintain excellent electronic and physical filing systems.
3. Prepare and record daily deposits and expenses.
4. Develop monthly and annual budgets as well as financial reports for the Board and other reports as needed.
5. Monitor online contributions and donor acknowledgements are sent.
6. Support a capital campaign with physical and electronic filing systems and timely correspondence and receipts.
7. On-going front-office administrative tasks such as file maintenance, correspondence, mailings, greetings guests, problem-solving, etc.
8. Other projects as needed.

Behavioral

1. Must be a self-starter.
2. Ability to be flexible and to multi-task with strong ability to meet deadlines.
3. Highly organized and detail-oriented.
4. Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.
5. Timely completion of work and strong ability to communicate verbally and in writing.
6. Strong interpersonal skills.

Salary and Benefits

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. The HistoryMakers also offers a competitive benefits package that includes 403(b), PTO, health, vision and dental insurance, tuition reimbursement and school loan repayment assistance.

The HistoryMakers

The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive(www.thehistorymakers.org), is a one-of-a-kind collection, housed permanently at the Library of Congress. Its website (www.thehistorymakers.org), accessed by millions worldwide, is sited in Wikipedia and used as a “go to” reference tool. Its digital archive(https://da.thehistorymakers.org user name: [email protected]; password: THMDemo) has been licensed by colleges, universities, K-12 schools and public libraries for use by faculty, students and patrons and is growing in popularity in the wake of COVID19 and the focus on online learning. Within the next few years, The HistoryMakers will become the digital repository for the Black experience: providing much needed content, role models, success pathways and frameworks for a 21st century citizenry that has become increasingly less tolerant, divisive and economically and educationally disparate.

Please send resumes to:

The HistoryMakers

1900 S. Michigan Ave. | Chicago, IL 60616

[email protected]