Engagement: Full-time consultancy
Duration: 6 months (March/April – September/October 2026)
Location: Global and Remote
Compensation: $9,000 USD/month
About Our Collective Practice
Our Collective Practice builds the knowledge, narrative, and power to center girls’ and young feminists’ activism in movements, sectors, and culture change efforts. Serving as a hub for learning, experimentation, and collaboration, we foster a stronger and more connected ecosystem that is deeply accountable to girls and young feminists. We are committed to girls’ safety, dignity and freedom and have an unshakeable belief in the dreams, resistance strategies and power of girls and young feminists.
About the Consultancy
This is a full-time, time-bound consultancy designed to support Our Collective Practice during a pivotal phase of organizational growth. Over a six-month engagement, the Finance & Operations Consultant will partner closely with leadership to design, build, and strengthen the organization’s financial and operational model—translating feminist values into practical, sustainable systems that can support long-term health, accountability, and care. This role is ideal for someone energized by building organizational infrastructure from the ground up in a movement-rooted, values-driven context, and who thrives at the intersection of strategic design and hands-on implementation.
As a two-year-old organization, Our Collective Practice is committed to remaining nimble and adaptive, while also intentionally creating structures that support the care, wellbeing, and sustainability of our team, collaborators, and partners. This consultancy will play a critical role in helping us clarify and put in place the systems, practices, and approaches that will support our long-term health and impact.
We are seeking a dynamic, mission-driven Finance & Operations Consultant to serve as a central partner in shaping and strengthening our organizational, financial, and operational foundations. The consultant will play a key role in designing Our Collective Practice’s long-term operational model, while also stewarding core operational functions such as budgeting, financial systems, grantmaking processes, and revenue-related workflows—all grounded in feminist principles of care, equity, transparency, and collective wellbeing.
A core component of this role will be to support leadership in defining Our Collective Practice’s long-term operational and legal structure. This includes exploring and assessing options such as remaining fiscally sponsored or transitioning to an independent entity, and weighing the implications of different models in relation to cost effectiveness, administrative workload, risk, governance, staffing capacity, and organizational sustainability. The consultant will help synthesize these considerations into clear analysis and practical recommendations that support informed decision-making.
While this is a time-bound consultancy, the Finance & Operations Consultant will be hands-on in day-to-day operational work as needed, using close engagement with budgets, workflows, grantmaking processes, and administrative systems to design, test, and refine operational approaches. This hands-on work is explicitly in service of building systems, documentation, and practices that can be sustained by the organization beyond the consultancy period.
The Finance & Operations Consultant will also support the development and testing of creative financing approaches, including systems related to income generation from books, art, and games, as well as exploratory work on alternative funding and investment mechanisms that contribute to sustained, collective wealth for the organization and the broader ecosystem we serve.
We are looking for someone who excels at designing, refining, and implementing systems, and who enjoys working closely with leadership to translate values into practical, workable structures. This includes building operational approaches that allow the organization to grow with intention—remaining flexible and relational while putting in place the foundations needed for accountability, sustainability, and care. The ideal consultant brings a proactive, collaborative approach and is excited by the challenge of building organizational infrastructure in a values-driven context.
Key Responsibilities
1. Operational Model Design & Decision Support
● Partner with leadership to assess and define Our Collective Practice’s long-term operational and organizational model, including analysis of options such as remaining fiscally sponsored, transitioning to an independent entity, or hybrid approaches.
● Evaluate each option in relation to cost effectiveness, administrative workload, staffing implications, risk, governance, long-term sustainability, and the impacts on partners, collaborators, and grantees—including considerations of care, burden, and relational accountability.
● Synthesize findings into clear analysis, scenarios, and recommendations to support informed decision-making by leadership and governance bodies.
2. Hands-On Operations & Systems Building
● Engage directly in core day-to-day operational functions (e.g., budgeting, financial tracking, grantmaking workflows, payments, vendor management) as needed to understand, test, and strengthen systems.
● Design, implement, and refine operational systems, tools, and workflows that support efficiency, transparency, care, and accountability.
● Identify gaps, bottlenecks, and risks in current operations and develop practical solutions to address them.
3. Financial Management & Sustainability Systems
● Lead or support budget development, cash flow tracking, and financial reporting processes in partnership with leadership and the fiscal sponsor.
● Strengthen financial systems related to grantmaking, contractor payments, and compliance with funder and fiscal sponsor requirements.
● Support exploration and testing of creative financing approaches, including systems for income generation (e.g., books, art, games) and alternative funding or investment mechanisms (exploratory).
4. Documentation, Knowledge Transfer & Handoff
● Develop clear documentation, templates, and standard operating procedures for core operational and financial processes.
● Ensure systems and practices are designed to be sustainable beyond the consultancy period and transferable to future staff or consultants.
● Support leadership in identifying future operational staffing needs and role definitions informed by the consultancy.
5. Collaboration, Values Alignment & Care-Centered Practice
● Work closely with leadership, team members, and key partners to ensure operational practices align with feminist values of care, equity, transparency, and shared responsibility.
● Bring a relational, collaborative approach to systems building that supports team wellbeing and realistic workloads.
● Surface and name tensions, tradeoffs, and risks with clarity and care, supporting thoughtful decision-making in a growing organization.
This consultancy is focused on analysis, design, implementation, and recommendation; it does not include full legal incorporation or execution of a spin-off, should that path be chosen.
Qualifications & Experience
We are seeking a consultant with a strong track record of designing and strengthening operational and financial systems in values-driven, early- or growth-stage organizations.
● 7+ years of experience in operations, finance, or organizational management, including experience in nonprofit, feminist, or social justice–oriented organizations.
● Demonstrated experience designing and implementing operational systems and workflows, ideally in small or growing organizations.
● Strong financial acumen, including experience with budgeting, cash flow management, financial reporting, and working with fiscal sponsors or nonprofit governance structures.
● Experience assessing and comparing organizational models (e.g., fiscal sponsorship, independent nonprofit structures, hybrid approaches), with the ability to weigh cost, workload, risk, sustainability, and care.
● Proven ability to engage hands-on in day-to-day operations while simultaneously building systems, documentation, and processes for long-term use.
● Experience developing documentation, templates, and standard operating procedures that enable knowledge transfer and sustainability beyond a consulting engagement.
● Comfort working in ambiguous, evolving environments and supporting leadership through complex operational decisions.
● Strong communication and synthesis skills, with the ability to translate complex operational and financial considerations into clear options and recommendations.
● Deep alignment with feminist principles and social justice values, including a commitment to care-centered, equitable, and non-extractive ways of working.
● Highly collaborative, relational, and self-directed, with the ability to partner closely with leadership and work effectively with diverse collaborators.
Nice to have (but not required):
● Experience with creative or alternative financing models, earned revenue strategies, or feminist economic approaches.
● Experience supporting organizations working globally or across multiple regions and movements.
How to Apply:
Please send the following to Admin@ourcollectivepractice.org by February 23, 2026 with Finance and Ops Consultant + [your last name] on the subject line.
Please submit the following:
1. Resume or CV
2. Cover Letter:
● In your cover letter, please reflect on the role that finance and operations play in advancing feminist, movement-building work.
● Share how you have approached finance and/or operations as tools for equity, care, and sustainability in your past work, and how this perspective and experiences shape the way you would approach this role.
3. References
● Please include two professional references - we will confirm with you before contacting any references.
Please note that late applications will not be accepted. This role is remote and open globally. We welcome applications from individuals with lived experience in the issues we work on and are particularly committed to centering Global South feminists, Black feminists, Indigenous people, trans and non-binary folks, and people from communities who have been historically marginalized.
