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Job Announcement

CorpsAfrica

(Posted: January 2025)

(Preference for Washington, DC; will also consider candidates in the ten African countries (listed below) where CorpsAfrica has a presence.)

CorpsAfrica has retained Slesinger Management Services to recruit an experienced nonprofit accounting professional with strong financial management, leadership, and intercultural skills to serve as chief financial officer. This is an outstanding opportunity for a finance leader with a proven track record of creative problem-solving and change management to develop exceptional financial systems for a fast-growing, mission-driven, nonprofit organization that, in 2025, will have a budget of $18 million, a staff of about 160 (7 in Washington, DC; the rest in 10 countries in Africa), and 470 fulltime volunteers, who form the essence of the organization.

The Organization

CorpsAfrica is a nonprofit organization that recruits and places ambitious, young Africans in rural, high-poverty communities in their own countries to apply their education, build their critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and venture beyond their comfort zones to learn about their countries and about themselves. They facilitate small-scale, high-impact projects identified by local community members, to fulfill key needs and whose impact and success can be carefully measured.

Currently, CorpsAfrica has 470 volunteers in ten countries that span the continent – Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda.

The Position and its Principal Responsibilities

Reporting directly to the CEO, the chief financial officer is responsible for providing leadership for the organization’s financial functions, ensuring the organization’s fiscal health.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Overseeing and administering CorpsAfrica’s financial management, including implementing sound processes and systems that will accommodate continued future growth.
2. Leading a finance and accounting team of seven, all of whom (except possibly the next CFO) are based in various offices in Africa.
3. Serving as a strategic business partner to the CEO, other senior staff, and the board of directors, including assessing the financial implications of key opportunities and decisions the organization is considering.
4. Evaluating all current procedures and processes related to the organization’s financial management and identifying improvements as necessary.
5. Directing the creation of the annual budget, in collaboration with local office directors, and then tracking actual versus planned activity throughout the year by producing monthly and other periodic financial reports and analyzing financial performance.
6. Working with country office staff to create, manage, and report on budgets to donors.
7. Managing timely completion of the annual audit and 990, overseeing the outside audit firm, providing financial data, and coordinating the engagement of relevant board committees.
8. Serving as primary staff liaison to the board’s finance committee.

Desired Skills and Characteristics

1. Highly experienced in financial management at organizations with budgets greater than $15 million, and revenue that comes from private foundations and US or other government agencies.
2. Deeply proficient in accounting, including strong knowledge of GAAP, IFRS, and other relevant standards that affect nonprofits working globally.
3. A track record of working with organizations that operate in many countries and have staff from a broad array of nationalities and cultures.
4. Able to think strategically, providing the CEO and the rest of the senior team with sound analysis and advice as the organization considers new opportunities and new ways of carrying out its mission.
5. Experienced with fast-growing organizations, whose growth often requires new systems and procedures that are more appropriate to the more complex entity.
6. Fully up-to-date with the best ways to use technology to make organizational systems operate as efficiently and effectively as possible.
7. A superb communicator, orally and in writing, including presenting and explaining financial and other quantitative data to staff and board.
8. Collegial and open. The CFO must have a personality and work style that ensures that the internal atmosphere will be open and collaborative.
9. Unequivocally supportive of the organization’s mission, demonstrated ideally through professional, volunteer, or personal experiences.

Compensation

The anticipated salary will be $160,000 to $170,000, plus a comprehensive benefits package.

To Apply

Please e-mail the following two items:

1. A cover letter that explains:

• Why you are interested in this job;
• Why you are qualified for this job;
• In which of the 11 countries you are currently authorized to work. (Please be explicit.)

to search consultant Larry Slesinger, Founder and CEO of Slesinger Management Services, at Please include “CorpsAfrica CFO” in the subject line.

CorpsAfrica is an Equal Opportunity Employer.