About the Organization Uncornered is a $10M national movement working to end street violence by partnering with those closest to it. Seventy percent of the budget goes directly to Core Influencers, working in a high-frequency disbursement environment. We believe most influential street leaders modeling peaceful actions is the only path to peace. Our Core Influencers - individuals deeply embedded in violent street networks-lead this movement in Boston, Providence, and Kansas City.
Description The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will serve as a core architect of how financial resources drive behavior change within the Uncornered movement. This role goes beyond traditional nonprofit finance—designing, safeguarding, and optimizing the flow of capital as a tool to stabilize lives, shift norms, and enable influential community members to model peace. The CFO will ensure that every dollar deployed—especially direct cash to active gang involved individuals—reinforces purpose, connection, and behavior change. They will partner closely with leadership to align financial strategy with Uncornered’s goal of reaching net zero shootings. This role is currently based in Boston, MA or Kansas City and requires travel to the cities where the workforce is located.
In this Role, Exceptional Candidates Will:
- See cash as a behavior-shaping tool, not just a budget line
- Be comfortable funding people others see as “high risk”—and understand why that’s exactly the point
- Know how to build high-trust systems for populations with low institutional trust
- Have experience managing high-volume, small-dollar payments
- Be obsessed with consistency and reliability as signals of respect
Core Responsibilities
1. Strategic Financial Leadership
- Partner with the CO-CEOs and leadership team to align financial strategy Uncornered
- Develop long-range financial forecasts to ensure the financial health and growth aspirations
- Lead the annual budgeting process, ensuring $10M+ in diverse revenue streams are allocated effectively
- Serve as a thought partner to leadership across the organization to understand how to best deploy financial resources for a financially precarious population
- Lead key financial relationships and decisions, including banking relationships and deployment of key resources and benefits across the organization
2. Team Management & Operations
- Directly manage a finance team of 3–4 professionals
- Optimize internal controls and ERP systems to handle high-frequency payment processing
- Lead the annual audit process, acting as the primary liaison with external auditors
- Ensure rigorous nonprofit tax compliance
- Ensure financial processes can deploy funds within hours (not days) when stabilization is needed
3. Financial Analysis & Intelligence
- Design and maintain advanced analytical dashboards to track the velocity of cash deployments and ROI
- Provide the organization with clear, actionable insights regarding liquidity, reserves, and grant burn rates
- Translate complex financial data into "human" terms for non-financial stakeholders
4. Grants & Compliance
- Oversee the accounting and invoicing for public grants, ensuring 100% compliance
- Translate restrictive funding requirements into models that preserve participant dignity and autonomy
- Protect the integrity of unconditional cash principles while navigating public funding constraints
5. Capital Strategy & Behavioral Design
- Design and continuously refine financial structures that reinforce stability, agency, and pro-social identity among Core Influencers and Catalysts
- Ensure financial systems support dignified access
- Balance flexibility with accountability—protecting trust while maintaining strong controls
