American Rivers

Chief Marketing Officer

• Create visual assets for digital and print, such as factsheets, brochures, invitations, infographics, advertisements, presentations, event materials, social graphics.
• Provide quality assurance, maintaining consistency with brand guidelines and visual identity.
• Update and maintain internal databases for designs, photography, and video.
• Edit and optimize images for various uses (web, print, social).
• Coordinate with staff to gather, tag, and catalog new visual content.
• Edit short-form videos for social media.
• Assist in cataloging impact stories and publishing content across internal channels.
• Support planning and logistics for marketing campaigns and events.
• Draft and proofread content for social media, blogs, website updates, and fundraising materials.
• Handle various administrative and coordination tasks to support the marketing team.

Associate Director – Marketing

Director

• Lead and coordinate the Water Group confederation and its sectors, aligning strategy, strengthening collaboration, and fostering effective partnerships among members and stakeholders.
• Facilitate confederation governance and operations by convening leadership meetings, preparing agendas and briefing materials, documenting decisions, and translating strategic priorities into actionable workplans, budgets, timelines, and implementation frameworks.
• Monitor and analyze policy developments, campaigns, and emerging opportunities affecting water conservation and management, while conducting research and developing strategic recommendations to advance confederation priorities.
• Develop and maintain mapping, intelligence, and analytical products that identify coalition assets, strategic opportunities, partnership prospects, and pathways for collective impact.
• Create high-quality communications and engagement materials, including executive briefings, presentations, talking points, reports, and rapid-response resources to support confederation leaders, partners, and external audiences.
• Support fundraising and donor engagement efforts by developing case-for-support materials, cultivating philanthropic relationships, and helping build strategic funding opportunities for shared priorities.
• Establish performance metrics, track progress, synthesize lessons learned, and ensure effective coordination among confederation members while advancing inclusive practices throughout confederation activities and decision-making.

Water Group Director

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Ensure accounts, ledgers, and reports comply with non-profit GAAP and Federal and State regulatory requirements.
• Work with the CFO to develop and maintain a service-centered financial system that meets the information needs required for external reporting, internal financial planning, and program implementation.
• Prepare, review, and approve financial statements and month-end entries and accounting report package for accuracy and timely distribution to the Executive Team, as well as the Finance Committee and Board as needed.
• Monitor financial performance and keep CFO informed of significant variances across periods and impact on cash needs.
• Prepare annual financial statements and notes.
• Oversee and consolidate information in the preparation of annual tax returns.
• Maintain internal controls and safeguards for receipts, payments, fixed assets, and recording transactions.
• Serve as primary point of contact with outside auditors to coordinate audit activity.
• Recommend and implement improvements for accounting processes to increase efficiency and accuracy.
• Provide training and guidance to stakeholders on finance and accounting current best practices to support effective program implementation.
• Monitor operating account balances and recommend necessary cash transfers among bank accounts and/or investment accounts.
• Administers bank portal.
• In consultation with the CFO, maintains and sets up new accounts as needed with the bank.
• Consolidate and prepare multi-year cashflow model for c3 and c4 entities to report to Executive Team and Board.
• Develop, communicate, and update Finance and Accounting policies and procedures.
• Review and update Finance SOPs to clarify roles and responsibilities.
• Coordinate with the CFO to ensure a balanced separation of duties.
• Enforce established internal controls and recommend changes as necessary.
• Supports CFO with team management in line with AR’s vision and core values.
• Lead team members to develop skills and increase their knowledge base.
• Clarify roles and responsibilities while building a supportive team environment.
• Strengthen internal communications with staff; promote process efficiency and accuracy across functions and departments.

Senior Director, Finance & Accounting

• Prepare and maintain short-term and long-term cash flow forecasts.
• Develop liquidity analyses and treasury-related reporting schedules.
• Analyze cash trends, working capital requirements, and organizational liquidity needs.
• Prepare treasury analyses supporting cash management and financial planning activities.
• Assist with development of treasury reporting tools, dashboards, and forecasting models.
• Support development and coordination of the annual organizational budgeting process.
• Support preparation of periodic forecasts and financial planning updates.
• Support the budget-to-actual analyses and provide clear explanations of key financial and operational variances.
• Analyze trends related to personnel costs, organizational spending, revenue activity, and operational performance.
• Assist department leaders in understanding budget performance and financial trends.
• Assist in preparation of recurring management reports, dashboards, and reporting tools for leadership and departmental stakeholders.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze key performance indicators and financial metrics.
• Analyze operational and financial trends to support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting activities.
• Serve as a finance power user for Solver and related reporting tools.
• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, analytical models, and reporting packages.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting workflows, analytical processes, and data accessibility.

Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A, Treasury

• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities.
• Review journal entries, accruals, allocations, reconciliations, and supporting schedules prepared by accounting staff.
• Review monthly financial statements and management reporting packages.
• Maintain accounting policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, organizational policies, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Monitor accounting operations and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, and accuracy.
• Provide technical accounting guidance to staff.
• Coordinate annual financial statement audits and other external examinations.
• Coordinate preparation of Forms 990 and 990-T.
• Coordinate Charitable registration and regulatory filings.
• Develop and maintain finance process maps, standard operating procedures, and training materials.
• Supervise, coach, and develop accounting staff.

Accounting and Finance Manager

Communications

• Support the creation of graphics, short-form videos, and other engagement-focused digital content.
• Assist with video editing for social media campaigns, storytelling initiatives, and organizational communications.
• Help draft and edit blogs, captions, and other digital communications materials.
• Monitor social media channels for comments, messages, and engagement opportunities, escalating questions or concerns as needed.
• Support the Digital Team with analytics tracking.
• Attend and participate in greater marketing and communications team meetings.
• Support additional communications and digital engagement projects as assigned.

Digital Communications Intern, Fall 2026

• Manage the day-to-day needs of American Rivers’ website, including the continued evolution of the content strategy, new content creation, and the general care and feeding required to keep our site timely and relevant.
• Partner with the team on developing strategies to improve overall site SEO and to defend the loss of site traffic due to AI implications.
• Lead the strategy and implementation of various online/hybrid projects as needed, from idea generation and campaign planning to final content creation and production.
• Represent the Digital and/or Communications teams in meeting with internal or external partners.
• Lead or assist with the design and implementation of high-profile national campaigns, including our America’s Most Endangered Rivers® report release and other upcoming initiatives like State of America’s Rivers.
• Manage the creation and delivery of advocacy Action Alerts, blogs, press releases, and more.
• Lead or assist in developing email communications, including regional dispatches, newsletters, Community of Practice emails, and other general engagement emails.
• Partner with regional staff to increase opportunities for storytelling, increase performance of their content, and ensure timely, strategic communications.
• Hire and supervise semi-regular team interns if applicable.
• Measure, analyze and report on benchmark KPIs.
• Provide regular reports to staff and stakeholders.
• Create regular reporting and touchpoints for the team.