Climate change, Climate action

Hiring: Finance + Operations Manager
Organization: Youth Climate Lab

Application deadline: May 24nd 11:59 PM PT via this form. Please mention you saw this at rcen.ca or goodwork.ca.

About the Role

• Location: Remote, Canada
• Ideal start date: June 1st 2026
• Term: Fixed 1 year Term Contract
• Reports to: Executive Director & Board of Directors
• Supervises: Operations Coordinator (As the team grows, you will have the opportunity to supervise incoming Leads and Specialists)

As Finance and Operations Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring the organization operates efficiently and effectively. You will work closely with the Executive Director to manage our team and internal resources while supporting program staff to ensure we meet funder requirements and manage team capacity.

About YCL

YCL is a youth-for-youth lab founded in May 2017 to support and strengthen a generation of leaders in shaking up the status quo of climate inaction. It has since worked with 100+ partners to design, pilot, and scale innovative experiments projects that have reached thousands of young people combating climate change in 105 countries.

Learn more about YCL on our website and in our most recent Impact Report.

Your Duties

People management

• Aid Executive Director and Managers with recruitment and hiring of staff
• Responsible for overseeing the onboarding of new staff, including creating and tracking employment contracts
• Manage offboarding employees
• Monitor staff time to help assess team capacity and gaps
• Research and apply for various wage subsidy programs
• Manage wage subsidy compliance and reporting
• Run bi-weekly payroll using a third-party payroll service provider (Ceridian)
• Oversee performance reviews of staff using a 360 model

Finance

• Produce financial reports and organize the bookkeeping for each quarter and the year-end
• Co-create the fiscal budget with the Executive Director
• Manages bank accounts and credit cards
• Processes and monitors all invoicing to funders and customers, as well as payments to contractors and suppliers.
• Responsible for compiling, interpreting, executing, and verifying financial information
• Monitoring and analyzing the organization’s cash flow
• Liaise with our accounting firm for the annual audit

Operations

• Maintain the organization's operations manual
• Be accountable for overseeing Monday.com and Google Drive organization
• Manage all information and technology access for the organization
• Manages the Youth Climate Lab Finance email

Governance & Legal

• Coordinate quarterly board of directors meetings and offer check-in points to support the management of the sub-committees
• Control and innovate governance and people management policies and procedures while suggesting improvements to the internal control framework
• Analysis of performance measures and alignment with organizational strategy
• Developing strategies that work to minimize financial risk
• Liaise with our lawyers for any legal requirements and needs

Program Support

• Work with the Programs Manager to support budgeting and cost controls of individual projects.
• Work with the management team to determine fundraising strategies and funding budgets. Reading through various grant and fundraising proposals to understand restrictions and regulations.
• Ensure compliance with various regulatory/compliance requirements with a wide range of funders and partners, such as the creation and maintenance of project budget lifecycles and their relevant documentation requirements

Impact Support

• Manage Impact lead
• Meet with impact interns or capstone students as needed
• Oversee financial and fundraising reporting
• Interest in collecting and using data to tell stories
• Support with financials for grant writing
• Organizing fundraising support & data collection for fundraising goal setting

Nice-to-haves

• Focus on HR systems management
• Fundraising experience
• Non-profit work or volunteer experience
• Experience fostering healthy interpersonal relationships between staff and external stakeholders
• Proficiency in monday.com
• Experience building online workflows

Compensation & Perks

• Salary: $28-$30/hr commensurate with experience
• Hours: 35 per week
• Professional Development: 35 hours of paid time + 3-5% for professional development discretionary spending
• Health insurance co-pay with employer
• Schedule: Flexible work schedule, unlimited personal days, 2-weeks vacation and 2-3 weeks off during holidays and additional YCL paid days off (ex. Truth and Reconciliation Day)
• Travel: Paid travel to conferences around the world as needed—for example: from the UN Headquarters in NYC to COP, Globe in Vancouver, SOCAP in San Francisco and more

Eligibility

• Youth (18 - 30 years old)
• Have access to a personal cell phone and reliable internet
• Be a Canadian Citizen, permanent resident, or person on whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act*
• Be legally entitled to work according to provincial/territorial legislation and regulations
• Be eligible to travel internationally

*International students are not eligible. Recent immigrants are eligible if they are Canadian Citizens or permanent residents.

Application deadline:

May 24nd 11:59 PM PT via this form. 

Please mention you saw this at rcen.ca or goodwork.ca.

If you have any additional questions please feel free to reach out by email to hello@youthclimatelab.org . Only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.