Grants Accounting Assistant (part-time, fully remote)

Grants Accounting Assistant (part-time)

The Refugee Center is looking for a Grants Accounting Assistant to join our team in supporting refugee and immigrant clients with resettlement.

The Refugee Center, with an office in Champaign, IL, exists to provide services essential to refugee and immigrant resettlement in East Central Illinois, and to aid in the exchange and preservation of their respective cultures. Globally aware but locally focused, our professional, compassionate staff provide interpretation services and advocacy in court hearings, doctors' appointments, school conferences, and other settings. For 40 years, we've helped people find stability in their new homes through counseling, tutoring, community health programs, and support in completing paperwork for work, school, and government programs.

The Grants Accounting Assistant will be a support member of our Operations team to provide administrative capacity to bridge our grants and financial data.

The Grants Accounting Assistant is a part-time position and an hourly role that we expect to be around 20 hours per month of work.

The role will report to the Assistant Director of Operations.

Responsibilities:

• Provide administrative support to our Operations team around grants and financial data
• Allocate funding sources for journal entries in the general ledger
• Generate vouchering documentation for funders
• Support the generation of fiscal grant reports
• Support the drafting of grant budgets
• Support grant compliance, including reporting, documentation, nad tracking job openings covered by grants
• Support Database Coordinator on Salesforce implementation for grants function
• Train staff on processes and policies related to the grants data entry process
• Coordinate and maintain contracts for contacts

Qualifications:

• Experience with data entry
• Experience working with large sets of data
• High level of attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent internal communication skills, including good follow through and responsiveness
• Upholds a high level of confidentiality and empathy
• Proficiency with computers and cloud-based systems, especially the Google Suite
• Passion for our mission of supporting and empowering refugees and immigrants

Nice to have:

• Experience working in an Accounting, Finance, Bookkeeping, and/or a related field
• Experience working at a nonprofit organization
• Familiarity with accounting and/or grants management
• Experience working with people from different cultures

Compensation & Benefits:

• Pay rate will range from $16/hour less applicable withholdings

If interested, please apply to with your resume. No phone calls please.