Conservation Support Lead

Overview

• Duration: 6 months to start

This role provides day-to-day technical direction for a program that administers benefits, accounts, and trusts for children in foster care.

The Conservation Support Lead reviews higher-risk transactions, coordinates approved accounts and trusts, evaluates reconciliations and supporting documentation, resolves exceptions, and reviews the work of Benefits Account Specialists. The position supports consistent use of approved procedures, but does not set program policy, exercise formal supervisory authority, or independently provide legal, tax, investment, fiduciary, or trustee advice.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical direction for benefits, accounts, and trusts administration for children in foster care
• Review higher-risk transactions
• Coordinate approved accounts and trusts
• Evaluate reconciliations and supporting documentation
• Resolve exceptions
• Review the work of Benefits Account Specialists
• Ensure consistent use of approved procedures, internal controls, and approval requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, economics, public administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• At least three years of progressively responsible experience in accounting support, banking operations, trust or account administration, financial transactions, reconciliations, or benefit-payment operations
• Demonstrated experience reviewing reconciliations, resolving discrepancies, and maintaining complete financial records
• Ability to apply detailed procedures, internal controls, and approval requirements consistently
• Excel proficiency, including designing and maintaining complex workbooks

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with public benefits, federal disability or survivor benefits, representative payee operations, child welfare, or government financial programs
• Experience with ABLE accounts, special needs trusts, pooled trusts, dedicated accounts, restricted funds, or fiduciary administration
• Prior senior specialist, peer-review, technical-lead, or workflow-coordination experience