Director of Finance

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Townsend, TN, inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Compensation: $65,000-75,000 annually

Benefits: Medical insurance, dental insurance, paid annual leave, paid holidays, paid sick leave, doubled holiday pay, retirement matching, free meals, program discounts, Tremont Visitor Center discounts, and more.

Our Values and Culture

• We create experiential education programs focused on the natural world, knowing such learning and research opportunities are uniquely suited to bring about life changing outcomes in individual passion for learning, sense of worth, and behavior.
• We believe a lost connection with the natural world can be repaired beginning with experiences that take place in the original classroom—the outdoors. We believe such experiences produce cascading results that enrich individual lives, strengthen communities, and empower community members.
• We celebrate the distinctive setting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) provides as a living laboratory to explore the biodiversity that forms the building blocks of healthy ecosystems, examine past and present human impacts on the land, and navigate questions about how to best support the land that supports us.
• We carry out our mission with both urgency and joy, recognizing that the work of connecting people and nature could not be timelier.

We are seeking an individual to serve as a strategic thought partner on the leadership team, providing oversight in the areas of finance, salary and benefits, business planning, and budgeting. 

Briefly, responsibilities include the following (more details listed in the position description):

• Manages all organizational bank, credit and merchant accounts related to revenue and expenses.
• Oversee bookkeeping functions of accounts payable and receivable.
• Compile, analyze and present month-end and year-end data for financial reports for CEO and Board in an accurate and timely manner. Clearly communicate monthly and annual financial statements.
• Works to oversee grant income and expense tracking, provides financials for grant reporting purposes, work with senior leadership to identify organizational capacity for grant seeking purposes
• Leads Financial Aid application process for groups and individuals.
• Analyzes wage/salary/ benefit reports and data with senior leadership team to determine competitive compensation plans.
• Manages health insurance and other employee benefit packages, including retirement contributions.
• Consults with CEO and Board Operations committee to ensure employment policies, program and record-keeping policies comply with federal and state law.
• Member of leadership team in planning and implementing both short and long term strategies in support of the Institute’s mission, strategic plans and day-to-day operations.

Please see the full position description for more details and to apply.