Indigitize is an Indigenous-led initiative with a mission to activate and equip youth, families & educators in Indigenous communities with the literacy and tools to determine how technology serves their communities and protect their communities from it in order to ensure that children are holistically well and have positive and healthy learning experiences as they grow. 

Indigitize is looking for someone to provide fractional CFO-level financial leadership to Indigitize, working alongside the Project Director and Tides’ team to develop financial strategy, proactively push financial information up, and to help the organization plan for the future.

Indigitize is a fiscally-sponsored project of the Tides Center. Tides provides back-office financial administration. Tides maintains the accounting (NetSuite) and CRM database (Salesforce), and processes transactions including AP/AR, payroll, and basic reporting. Indigitize needs financial leadership in addition to these back-office functions to support strategic decision making, budgeting, and forecasting.

✦ Who We Are 

Emerging technologies, including AI, carry potential promise and documented peril to the natural world, relationships, and well-being. Indigitize believes Indigenous youth and communities should be active leaders in determining how technology serves their communities as well as protecting their communities from it.

Previously, we’ve worked to ensure that students, educators, and families in Native communities have the literacy and tools to shape emerging technologies in ways that strengthen language, culture, and opportunity. At this moment, we are looking for an Executive Director to take us into a future where we do more work to equip youth and communities with the information needed about the harms, so they can take that information and consider it when making local decisions and ensuring families and educators and tribal leaders have the information needed to enact a healthy learning experience for Native youth.

Launched in 2022, Indigitize now reaches over 20,000 students annually through three core strategies: Educator Communities of Practice which help educators integrate computer science and AI literacy into their teaching; SkoCode, which embeds community members in schools to lead learning experiences around emerging technologies; and close partnerships with schools and districts serving Native youth and Indigitize serves as a resource to tribal communities.

✦ What You’ll Do 

Scope of Work

1. Budgeting. Lead the annual budget process in partnership with the Project Director. Build and maintain an overall budget, including grant-specific budgets. Track budgets vs. actuals.

2. Financial analysis and reporting. Complete month end close and create monthly financial reports that are accessible and useful for organizational leadership.

3. Forecasting & cash planning. Produce and maintain forecasts on a quarterly basis covering revenue, expenses, and the organization’s cash position. Model different scenarios as requested based on funding and programmatic opportunities.

4. Strategic financial support. Advise the Project Director on the financial impact of strategic decisions. Participate in leadership conversations as needed.

5. Grant support. Develop budgets for grant proposals, produce financials for grant reports, track grants in and out payments, process grants out as necessary, and manage grant reporting deadlines.

6. Liaison with Tides. Serve as Indigitize’s primary financial point of contact with Tides’ accounting team. Flag issues, request adjustments, and coordinate as needed on reporting timelines and requirements.

7. Financial policies & controls. Recommend and help implement financial policies and procedures appropriate for Indigitize, working within the Tides structure.

8. Contracts and vendor management. Work with Tides on the creation of service contracts and manage vendors including vendor setup and entering bills in Netsuite for payment.

9. Payroll and benefits. Work with Tides on the creation of service contracts and manage vendors including vendor setup and entering bills in Netsuite for payment. Work with the Project Director and Tides to ensure payroll is accurate and allocated to the correct funding sources, and assist with annual benefits selections to ensure cost alignment with budget. 

10. AP, expense reimbursements and Pcard charges. Enter vendor bills and expense reimbursements for payment processing and review credit card charges for accuracy and appropriate coding.

✦ Hours and Compensation

We expect this position will require 10-15 hours per week, at $100/hour. Hours may fluctuate from week to week and can be flexible but business hour availability will be required.

✦ Application Process

If you are interested in this role, please email Kirsten Mack, kmack@tidescenter.org and Lillian Parker, lparker@tidescenter.org with your resume.