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Voces de la Frontera is a national leader in the movement for immigrant and worker rights and the largest grassroots Latinx membership organization in Wisconsin. Led by low-wage immigrant workers and students, Voces works to protect and expand civil rights and work through leadership development, community organizing, and collective empowerment.
To apply, please submit resume and cover letter to Ana Gomez, Human Resources Generalist- agomez@vdlf.org.
Voces de la Frontera has chapters in Milwaukee, Racine, Madison, Green Bay/Fox Cities, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Waukesha, Walworth County, Kenosha, and West Bend. Voces’ student arm is called Youth Empowered in the Struggle.
Voces de la Frontera and Voces de la Frontera Action is an affirmative action employer. Voces believes that all people are entitled to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in any matters on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender identity and presentation, religion or spirituality, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental ability, sexual orientation, physical characteristics, marital status, pregnancy or parental status.
Voces de la Frontera is now hiring multiple full and limited-term positions for:
About Voces de la Frontera:
Voces de la Frontera is a national leader in the movement for immigrant and worker rights and the largest grassroots Latinx membership organization in Wisconsin. Led by low-wage immigrant workers and students, Voces works to protect and expand civil rights and workers’ rights through leadership development, community organizing, and collective empowerment. VDLF has chapters in Milwaukee, Racine, Madison, Green Bay/Fox Cities, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Waukesha, Walworth County, Kenosha, and West Bend. Voces’ student arm is called Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES).
Note: This position will include work for both Voces de la Frontera and our 501c4 sister organization Voces de la Frontera Action (VDLFA).
Responsibilities:
● Manages QuickBooks weekly entries
● Tracking all C3 and C4 deposits and taking them to the bank weekly
● Manages Monthly reconciliation (all bank accounts entries, grants, sustainer memberships, membership splits,withdrawal, ach transactions, online donations, bank deposits)
● Manages all receivables and assists with payables as needed.
● Using adm and staff communication channels regularly and on a timely basis (email, slack, signal, text, phone)
● Schedule administrative and financial meetings and as needed.
● Work closely with executive director and finance team to ensure compliance and oversight of regular andunique operations requests
● Incorporate new systems to facilitate programs such as square, divvy and bill.com
● Assist staff with fundraising campaigns of the year (such as Gala, May Day, end of year giving, annual meeting,etc)
● Create and manage tracking sheets to monitor incoming donations from main events
● Attend weekly Finance meetings
● Data entry to organizational databases including QuickBooks and Every Action (internal member database)
● Meet weekly with the Development Director and Organizing Director to review memberships, sustainingmemberships and donors and send thank you letters weekly to all donors and members. Development Director will flag ED on which letters to personalize or request a meeting
● Attend and support major Voces de la Frontera events and campaign actions
● Supporting statewide chapter needs related to managing leases, utilities, and transition needs when moving toa new office
● Order office supplies for all wisconsin chapters
● Assist with logistics on all events
● Create financial reports for monthly board meetings budgets
● Building maintenance request
● Distributing all new memberships to membership team weekly
● Tracking all expenses and receipts for all financial accounts
● Monthly meetings with development to correctly classify incoming grants and track pending grants
● Assist on making reports for grant tracking on quickbooks
● Provide development with bank wire information for grant receiving
● Creates invoices to obtain funds from grantors
● Be vigilant and alert supervisor and ED of any suspicious fraudulent activity
● Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
● Experience working for social justice as an organizer and a basic knowledge of community organizing skills (storyof self, one on one, power analysis, understanding self-interest, and how to run a meeting)
● Fast typing skills
● Knowledge of Word processing tools and spreadsheets (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs/Templates)
● Can think and act organizationally- prove loyalty to the organization and will not promote other projects whileon Voces time
● Has respect for and can work effectively with people of diverse backgrounds including immigrants fromvarious countries, and LGBTQ folks
● Bilingual Spanish/English required
● Experience with immigrant rights organizing preferred
● Excellent written, interpersonal and communication skills
● Ability to meet deadlines, work flexibly in a high paced, changing work environment
● Bachelor’s degree preferred
● Experience with Quickbooks Required
● Commitment to working in a fast-paced environment and quick to adapt to change
Salary: $60,000
Reports to: Operations Director
