Chief Financial Officer
Location: Remote, U.S.-based
Reports to: President & Chief Executive Officer
Status: Full-time, exempt
Salary: Starting compensation of $170,000 annually
About EarthShare
EarthShare is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization working to accelerate environmental philanthropy and mobilize resources for a healthy, just, and sustainable planet. For more than three decades, EarthShare has helped individuals, employers, foundations, nonprofit organizations, and other mission-aligned organizations direct meaningful support to environmental causes. Building on its legacy in workplace giving, EarthShare has expanded its role as a philanthropic infrastructure organization at a time when the environmental movement urgently needs more flexible, trusted, and values-aligned vehicles for giving.
EarthShare ’s work advances through three core programs:
- Donor-Advised Funds and Philanthropic Services. EarthShare operates a mission-aligned DAF program for individuals, families, foundations, donor networks, businesses, and philanthropic intermediaries. Our DAF program includes platform-based and white-glove offerings designed to support complex donor relationships, large-scale assets, strategic grantmaking, and customized philanthropic service models.
- Fiscal Sponsorship. EarthShare provides fiscal sponsorship and operational support for high-impact environmental, climate, conservation, food systems, and social innovation initiatives, helping projects move resources quickly, manage compliance responsibly, and focus more fully on mission delivery.
- Workplace Giving. EarthShare serves as a trusted connector between employers, employees, and environmental nonprofits, helping people take action through workplace giving, volunteering, and engagement campaigns.
EarthShare has mobilized more than $450 million to environmental causes over its history. The organization is now entering a period of strategic growth: strengthening financial systems, expanding its DAF and fiscal sponsorship programs, cultivating and supporting major philanthropic partnerships, and building the financial and compliance infrastructure required to steward substantially greater resources for environmental impact.
The Opportunity
EarthShare seeks a Chief Financial Officer to serve as the organization's senior financial leader and a close partner to the President & CEO, COO, Board of Directors, Finance Committee, Investment Committee, and senior staff. The financial systems, controls, and reporting the CFO leads are the infrastructure our mission depends on.
The CFO will lead EarthShare ’s finance function across accounting, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, audit, treasury, cash management, internal controls, and financial compliance. The CFO will also design and manage the financial architecture that supports EarthShare ’s DAF, fiscal sponsorship, and workplace giving programs, including fund accounting, donor and partner reporting, fee modeling, liquidity planning, investment oversight, and risk management.
The CFO and COO are peer leaders on EarthShare ’s senior team. Operational functions including human resources, technology, and administrative operations report to the COO. The CFO’s remit is financial leadership: the systems, controls, analysis, and strategic judgment that allow EarthShare to move capital responsibly and grow with integrity.
Reporting directly to the President & CEO, the CFO will supervise EarthShare ’s Senior Director, Accounting and work closely with outsourced accounting support, auditors, investment advisors, custodians, and key institutional partnerships.
Key Position Priorities
- Build Financial Infrastructure for Scale. Assess, strengthen, and modernize EarthShare ’s financial systems, policies, controls, and reporting so they can support a larger and more complex organization, one that is accurate, transparent, audit-ready, and capable of earning the trust of donors and partners at every level.
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