The Center seeks a Budget Assistant who will support and report to the Director of Budget and Reporting (DBR) in the Finance Department. Providing administrative support to the DBR including scheduling meetings, maintaining files and calendar.
Deadline: November 3, 2014
Location: New York, NY
Organization: Center for Reproductive Rights
Center Background: Founded in 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is a non-profit organization that promotes women’s equality worldwide by securing reproductive rights in constitutional and international human rights law. Its mission is straightforward and ambitious: to advance reproductive health and rights as fundamental rights that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect and fulfill. The Center is unmatched as a reproductive rights organization in its expertise in U.S. constitutional law, comparative law, and international human rights law.
The Center works across the globe on issues including access to life-saving obstetrics care, contraception, abortion services, and comprehensive sexuality information. In the U.S. Legal Program, the Center’s preeminent litigation team has helped millions of women and their families by securing government funding for abortions, striking down abortion bans and other access restrictions, and protecting teens’ access to emergency contraception and confidential reproductive healthcare services and information. The Center’s complementary legislative advocacy initiatives and strategies have helped local advocates fight restrictive abortion legislation in over 25 states as well as promote reproductive rights and access to health care for millions of women. Through our human rights advocacy, the Center has been able to promote the integration and adoption of human rights principles in the domestic sphere while systematically norm-building and elevating local reproductive health issues within international treaty monitoring bodies and partner organizations.
The Center works across the globe on issues including access to life-saving obstetrics care, contraception, abortion services, and comprehensive sexuality information. In the U.S. Legal Program, the Center’s preeminent litigation team has helped millions of women and their families by securing government funding for abortions, striking down abortion bans and other access restrictions, and protecting teens’ access to emergency contraception and confidential reproductive healthcare services and information. The Center’s complementary legislative advocacy initiatives and strategies have helped local advocates fight restrictive abortion legislation in over 25 states as well as promote reproductive rights and access to health care for millions of women. Through our human rights advocacy, the Center has been able to promote the integration and adoption of human rights principles in the domestic sphere while systematically norm-building and elevating local reproductive health issues within international treaty monitoring bodies and partner organizations.
The Center’s Global Legal Program has brought groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. committees, and regional human rights bodies, and has built the legal capacity of women's rights advocates in over 50 countries. Our Government Relations Program, based in Washington, DC since 2009, focuses on both U.S. domestic and foreign policy, providing leadership within the community of reproductive rights allies. In recent years, the Center has been able to dramatically expand its pro bono support from U.S. and non-U.S. based law firms, supporting not only the work of our U.S. Legal Program, but also our Government Relations Program (engaged in federal advocacy in Washington D.C.) and our Global Legal Program (engaged in advocacy and litigation before the United Nations and various regional and national bodies throughout the world).
The Budget Assistant will be joining the Center at a critical time for reproductive rights globally. As opponents of women’s rights are mounting a scorched-earth campaign to turn back decades of hard-won progress, the Center is fighting back with short-, medium-, and long-term strategies, to reverse the erosion of reproductive rights protections across the U.S. and establish the right to affordable reproductive healthcare in the U.S. A key component of our strategic plan is to restore heightened protections for abortion rights, as promised to American women in the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade (1973).
To learn more about the Center for Reproductive Rights, go to www.reproductiverights.org.
The Center seeks a Budget Assistant who will support and report to the Director of Budget and Reporting (DBR) in the Finance Department. The position will be based in New York.
Responsibilities:
The Budget Assistant’s primary job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Providing administrative support to the DBR including scheduling meetings, maintaining files and calendar.
- Participating in the initial development and quarterly/final reviews of the Center’s institutional budget.
- Monitoring expenditures/obligations against approved budgets ensuring availability of budget and funds.
- Analyzing expenditure reports, investigate and make adjustment as required.
- Assisting in the preparation of reports and forecasts based on expenditure reports.
- Preparing budget to actuals reports by transferring the actuals from the Center’s accounting system (Financial Edge).
- Training staff members and providing technical assistance to program and other departments on the budgeting process and software
- Maintaining the benefit expense tracking sheets and other payroll-related tracking sheets.
- Assisting in the preparation of materials included in booklets for Finance & Audit Committees and Board Meetings.
- Producing or finalizing institutional documents or reports as needed.
- Carrying out such other duties as may be directed by the DBR.
Qualifications:
- Strong commitment to the Center’s mission, purpose, and values.
- Experience working in Finance and budgeting/planning is a plus.
- Knowledge of Non-Profit financial rules and regulations, accounting an advantage.
- Excellent presentation, writing and outstanding organizational and administrative skills
- Good inter-personal and communications skills and the ability to interact readily with staff members at all levels.
- Strong work ethic and attention to detail.
- Ability to adhere to work assignments and meet designated deadlines
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
- Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure
- Sound judgment, consider the perspectives of other departments, and to be helpful in resolving conflicts.
- Willingness to be hands-on and develop knowledge of operations and systems.
- Strong computer skills with Excel, Word, and Outlook.
- Bachelor’s degree required
- At least two years of experience in a similar role.
- Proven ability to manage multiple responsibilities and projects with competing priorities and deadlines.
Compensation:The Center offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and a comprehensive benefits program.
How to Apply: Please click on the link below to apply. A cover letter, résumé, and contact information for three references must be included in your application in order to be considered for this position. Please include these application materials as attachments.
Mailing address:
Center for Reproductive Rights
Attn.: Director of Budget and Reporting - Code 249
120 Wall Street, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Center for Reproductive Rights
Attn.: Director of Budget and Reporting - Code 249
120 Wall Street, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Deadline for applications: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they come in and we will not hold the position open for any specific time period. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply by November 3, 2014
The Center for Reproductive Rights is an equal opportunity employer, committed to inclusive hiring and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We strongly encourage candidates from all groups and communities to apply.
