JOBS

Lions Club has a Senior Financial Analyst position open. The Financial Analyst is responsible for timely and accurate financial reporting and analysis. This role will also play a significant part in the budget and forecast process, the annual audit and the annual tax return preparation. Communication and collaboration with other divisions in the organization as well as external consultants and agencies are a key component for this role. Responsibilities:

• Assists in coordination of budget and forecast process for the association and the foundation.
• Prepares, reviews, and evaluates monthly, quarterly and annual reports for management and Board of Directors. Reviews and analyzes variances and provides commentary.
• Monthly account reconciliations, analysis, and related journal entry preparation and posting for the association and foundation.
• Prepares annual audited financial statements and footnotes. Compiles required schedules for the external auditors for the association and the foundation.
• Produces analysis of special year-end items.
• Prepares the 990-tax return including supporting schedules in conjunction with the external tax consultant.
• Administers financial reporting software system for the association and the foundation. This includes maintenance of the chart of accounts and organization structure and data/system preparation for the cycles (forecast, budget and 5-Year Projection).
• Prepares and submits U.S. Census Bureau quarterly and annual reports.
• Maintains capital spend tracking, prepares forecast and budget depreciation and all related reporting.
• Provides input to manager and assists in implementing department plans and goals.
• Assists project teams throughout LCI/F with financial guidance.
• Ensures compliance with financial guidelines, company policies, and relevant legal regulations.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional organizations as appropriate to field.

Lions Club has a Strategic Partnerships Specialist position open. The Strategic Partnerships Specialist identifies new potential funders through prospect research, cultivation events, professional associations, and networking. This position assists with and leads concept and proposal development related to prospective funders, as well as solicitations to funders. The position will also maintain, and steward secured partnerships for further development, expanding funding opportunities. Moreover, this position will implement processes in order to cultivate strategic partnerships. This position is responsible for executing gift acknowledgments, recognition opportunities, and stewardship plans. What you will be doing:

• Demonstrate a solid understanding of domestic and global humanitarian development priorities, as well as corporate social responsibility (CSR) best practices, trends, and related data and approaches. Monitor trends and ongoing developments, both in the Global CSR realm as well as other, key, industry verticals.
• Possesses a thorough understanding of Lions Clubs International (LCI) membership base as well as LCIF’s leadership, volunteer leadership structure, mission, grant making areas, available program data and the unique role of Lions volunteers in LCIF’s major program areas and initiatives.
• Identify, prioritize, research, and cultivate prospective corporate, foundation, government, and international organization donors. Cultivation efforts will focus on the corporate sector, where natural charitable and CSR synergies exist and with international organizations, where alignment exist within the areas of sight/eye care, education/youth, diabetes, health/immunization, disaster relief efforts, and others.
• Work directly with volunteers/LCIF Coordinators, corporate committees, LCIF Board of Trustees, and other LCIF and LCI staff, to identify and solicit prospects and partnership opportunities.
• Prioritize and assist in the response to time-sensitive project proposals, grant tracking, project tracking, and new opportunities in an effort to build new and expanded partnership opportunities and relationships.
• Support the development of specific strategic planning efforts to support the growth in CSR partnerships across relevant Constitutional Areas. Including, identify, implement, and maintain new models for partnership that align with LCIF; external, CSR market demands; and, when relevant, current partners.
• Assist in managing a portfolio of existing corporate and institutional relationships. Implement effective strategies to further expand existing partnership funding opportunities.
• Ensuring that LCIF maintains existing partners CSR goals through project completion, management, oversight, and stewardship. Reporting and day-to-day oversight of CSR partnerships with existing and new partners.
• Assist in and lead design and adaptation of appropriate recognition and promotion plans to meet LCIF and donor needs.
• Draft and develop content for marketing and communications materials and customized solicitation materials including letters of request, presentations, proposals, donor/partner recognition brochures, letters of intent, etc.
• Represent partnerships team during internal LCIF Board of Trustees meetings and select conferences; and demonstrate confident, effective public speaking and presentation skills.

Lions Club is currently looking for a PR and Marketing Coordinator to join their team and rise to the challenge of empowering service. The PR and marketing coordinator plays a lead role in supporting key programs and processes within the marketing team. This role requires a highly organized, process-based team player with a proven track record of success in managing projects, timelines, and financials. What you will be doing:

• Serve as the operational lead for the Marketing Grant Program throughout the grant lifecycle, including intake, processing and payments, providing applicants and marketing team members with timely follow-up and status updates.
• Provide communications support and premier level of customer service to Lions members, journalists and members of the public with diplomacy and integrity.
• Support our plenary main-stage events at our international convention by managing contracts, travel, payments and other logistic associated with speakers and vendors.
• Process, track payments and provide payment support for 32 editions of LION Magazine to ensure timely payments to each edition and accurate reporting for quarterly and annual budgets.
• Support marketing team by setting up calls, managing translations needs and providing webinar assistance for board of directors’ meetings.
• Provide frontline communication support for the PR team by monitoring the PR inbox.
• Assist marketing team with operational needs such as contracts, invoices, divisional finance support and additional project management support.
• Provide direct support to division manager for board meeting planning, divisional scheduling, marketing coordination support.
• Order and maintain office supplies for the marketing team and provide support through other administrative functions as needed.

Lions Club is currently looking for a Membership Project Coordinator to join their team and rise to the challenge of empowering service. Primary responsibility for this position is to coordinate projects within the member experience department and other stakeholders. These projects include, but are not limited to membership development grant administration, new member kit project management, and membership award project management. In addition, this position will support the division by leveraging access to internal membership database and relationships with IT to create reports used to guide program development and utilization. Responsibilities:

• Administer Membership Development Grants:
  • Ensure grant applications are completed accurately and processed efficiently.
  • Communicate with staff and Lions regarding status of applications.
  • Process expense claims in accordance with policy. Evaluate whether exceptions are needed and collaborate with Finance as needed.
  • Evaluate grant effectiveness and provide recommendations for future programs based on effective grant utilization.
• Manage the annual process of ordering and distributing new member kits by working with various internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to regional offices, marketing, purchasing, district and club administration, and mail services.
  • Manage the budget for new member kits, and track expenses to explain any variances to the budget.
  • Create membership growth projections to determine the kit quantities needed to be ordered at all locations.
  • Ensure artwork is completed and delivered on time to all requisite parties.
  • Ensure kits are delivered on time at the beginning of the year.
  • Provide oversight to ongoing shipments and exceptions to standard operating procedures.
• Manage membership awards and special presidential initiatives in collaboration with other teams.
  • Establish and manage the annual budget for membership awards, providing explanations to variances.
  • Collaborate with IT and other teams to ensure existing reports are accurate and customer service can be provided to Lions with questions.
  • Create custom reports as needed for special awards.
  • Coordinate annual updates to award letters.
  • Evaluate and maintain inventory for awards.
  • Develop annual projects for each award to help ensure efficient ordering and distribution, provide suggestions for improvement.
  • Answer inquiries from Lions regarding awards.
• Analyze membership awards to ensure effectiveness, develop strategies, in collaboration with others, to identify and leverage active Lions who are award recipients.
• Develop additional project plans as needed to ensure deadlines across the division are not missed for various projects as needed.
• Data Management
  • Create reports to guide organizational strategy for both staff and Lion leadership using both internal and external membership databases.
  • Create reports to guide future development of membership programs including but not limited to new member experience and dropped member campaigns.
  • Use data to identify trends and make recommendations on program and organizational strategy.
• Provide suggestions for program improvement.

Aqueity is looking for a Business Development Representative to join their team. For the past 28 years, Aqueity has been providing IT managed services and cybersecurity solutions to a variety of businesses. Due to tremendous growth, they are looking for a business developer to join their sales team and engage prospects.
The successful candidate must be highly motivated to achieve weekly goals (50-75 calls per day) and be willing to schedule appointments for the sales team. Responsibilities:

• Prospect outreach – cold call targeted prospects to share the Aqueity story about IT managed service and cyber security services.
• Generate leads by executing the initial steps of Aqueity’s sales play book.
• Align activities and follow-up efforts with marketing initiatives (e.g. calls into webinar attendees).
• Collaborate with marketing and subject matter experts to fine-tune messaging and approach.
• Promote brand awareness in the tech space.
• Maintain outreach records and key performance metrics to enable forecasting.
• Display confidence and tenacity in securing meetings with targeted organizations and individuals.

Aqueity is looking for an IT Deployment Technician to join their team. The IT Deployment Technician is responsible for performing all aspects of hardware and software deployment, including equipment configuration and imaging related to client-specific needs and infrastructure.
Key areas of responsibility include creating and maintaining client images for laptop deployment, performing QA checklists on all equipment, meeting deployment timelines, troubleshooting problems, interacting with clients to ensure smooth onboarding/offboarding, and assisting with tracking and accounting for all assets in lab. Some responsibilities are the following:

• Configures, modifies, repairs, tests, and services various IT devices.
• Performs quality assurance checks on all devices and equipment prior to deployment.
• Identifies and troubleshoots hardware issues.
• Deploys images and customizes software based on project scope.
• Maintains and protects client assets.
• Cleans and deploys used laptops.
• Maintains up to date deployment guides and images for all clients.
• Escalates tickets when needed, with proper steps taken and documented within a ticket prior to escalation.
• Maintains lab organization including tracking and accounting for all client assets at all times.
• Demonstrates consistent deployment quality, following company guides and updating tickets appropriately.
• Tracks time properly within ConnectWise ensuring accurate billable against client agreements.
• Efficiently manages ticket queue.
• Completes and updates required documentation and adopts new company processes as needed.
• Demonstrates familiarity with vendor web sites for locating hardware updates, driver updates, and engineering changes on multiple products.
• Demonstrates product knowledge/expertise with client environments.
• Consistently displays commitment to team and clients, being an example to others regarding punctuality, client appointments and deployment deadlines.

Aqueity is looking for a skilled IT Help Desk Support Analyst, who is responsible for handling service requests for our clients requiring IT support. The Help Desk Support Specialist will work on-site in Lombard, IL, with their service delivery team to support and triage incoming issues on the following technologies: workstations, printers, servers, networks, and vendor-specific hardware/software. The ideal candidate has a true passion for technology and learning, enjoys problem solving, and has excellent customer service skills. Some responsibilities are the following:

• Provides IT Support relating to technical issues involving Microsoft’s core business applications, operating systems, and cloud services.
• Supports disaster recovery solutions.
• Provides technical support at the network level: WAN and LAN connectivity, routers, firewalls, and security.
• Provides basic remote access solution implementation and support: VPN, remote services, and Citrix.
• Monitors the remote monitoring and management system alerts and notifications, and respond accordingly through service tickets.
• Triages and classifies incoming service requests by gathering information from clients and computer systems.
• Documents and tracks all required information supporting accurate ticket reporting for the Service Desk.
• Resolves service requests during the first phone call if possible and escalates service requests to other resources as needed.
• Communicates with customers as required: keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying them of impending changes or agreed outages.
• Displays an ability to patiently walk a user through the steps needed to address the issue.
• Fast turnaround of customer requests – quickly and correctly identifies the user’s issue or problem, recommending the most efficient solution to address the issue.
• Answers all web-based inquiries and phone calls within the response time goals for the Service Desk.
• Documents basic support processes and knowledge base articles for recurring issues as needed and escalates identified recurring issues to next level support engineers.
• Ability to work in a team and communicate effectively – maintains a positive and friendly attitude towards all team members.

Aquascape has a part-time bookkeeper position available. As their bookkeeper, you will do the following:

• Provide support to Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable positions.
• Cash application.
• Daily invoicing.
• Daily banking and EFT information for cash application.
• Daily credit card balancing.
• Daily cash balancing.
• Issuing freight credits.
• Processing and entering vendor invoices into EPICOR.
• Daily generate RMA credits to customer accounts.
• Monthly Cash, Credit Card and construction balancing.
• Month end close support and account reconciliations.
• Problem resolution.
• Support monthly sales tax return process.

Aquascape is seeking a Warehouse Associate to join their team and do the following responsibilities:

• Order-picking
  • Pull and prepare product / orders for shipment.
  • Ensure accuracy of product being loaded and shipped, both quantity and sku.
  • Perform picking duties in an efficient manner.
  • Meet customer service standards.
  • Walk throughout the warehouse picking product with manual pallet jack from shelving and racking.
• Loading and Unloading trucks
  • Efficiently move product from staging and/or storage areas into rail cars or trailers.
  • Manually unload cartons of product from trailers – containers and stage onto standard warehouse pallets.
  • Reaching and lifting preformed regularly when unloading trucks and containers.
• Equipment
  • Load, unload, move, stack, and stage product and materials using a reach truck; forklift; electric pallet jack and manual pallet jacks.
  • Maintain the facility’s equipment and materials in a neat, clean, and orderly fashion.
• Assembly
  • Perform duties such as taping cartons; assemble component bags; assemble pond kits.
  • Bending; walking; stretching; lifting; pushing; pulling; standing and taping are some of the activities preformed in the assembly department regularly.
• Safety
  • Assist in maintaining the security of the warehouse.
  • Conduct operations in a manner that promotes safety.
  • Comply with OSHA and MSDS standards.

Adare Pharma Solutions is seeking to hire a Manufacturing Operator to join their Manufacturing Operations Team. The Manufacturing Operator is responsible for learning and performing various pharmaceutical manufacturing techniques including dispensing, blending and granulation, compression, encapsulation, and coating. Cross-training is provided, as needed, upon the mastering of each technique. The Operator is expected to complete all tasks by adhering to GMP and Safety guidelines at all times, including following proper documentation and gowning procedures. Responsibilities and Learning Opportunities:

• Cleaning of product rooms and equipment such as mills, mixers, ovens, granulators etc.
• Operation of granulation equipment.
• Operate all Coating equipment i.e., Coating Pans (Accela Cota, Compulab) dust collector, air handling unit and delivery apparatus.
• Check and document weight of all powder blends when received from Blending Department.
• Copress/Encapsulate product as specified in the batch Manufacturing Records.
• Document process as specified in BMR.
• Operate all Encapsulation equipment i.e., IMA Matic 90, IMatic 150, Adapta encapsulators, Precisa 12, 120 weight sorters, scales and metals detectors.
• Clean all equipment in the Encapsulation and Tablet Compression department.
• Operate all tablet compression equipment i.e. Kilian S520, Syntheses 500, tablet presses, drum lifters, deduster, metal detectors, scales, micrometers, hardness testers, printers, and inspection machines
• Will assure the Department and work areas are kept clean and orderly. Clean equipment as specified by SOPs and Department Supervisor.
• Will constantly observe and practice all cGMP policies and procedures in all work performed.
• Observe and adhere to Department Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Safety Polices in all work performed. Adhere to work schedule, and perform other duties as assigned.
• Must participate and successfully complete all training as required by the company.

As an Inside Service Technician (internally referred to as a Tech Wizard), you will directly communicate with end users and field technicians to provide technical support over the phone and via email to assist in repairs on warranty and non-warranty foodservice equipment – specifically, cold-side units. After completing the onboarding process, you will also have the opportunity to earn all Commercial Food Service Equipment Service Association (CFESA) certifications. A Typical Day:

• Provide exceptional customer service, effectively communicating equipment information and troubleshooting solutions in a friendly and professional manner.
• Utilize equipment manuals, wiring diagrams, and parts listings to diagnose and resolve equipment issues.
• Maintain all customer call information into a company database to better assist future inquiries.
• You will work closely with manufacturers to recommend engineering changes and document equipment/component failure rates.

Parts Town is seeking Inside Service Technicians to join their team. As an Inside Service Technician (internally known as a Tech Wizard), you will directly communicate with end users and field technicians to provide technical support over the phone and via email. On a daily basis, you’ll assist with repairs on warranty and non-warranty foodservice equipment (specifically hot-side units). You’ll work closely with manufacturers to recommend engineering changes and document equipment/component failure rates. After completing the onboarding process, you’ll also have an opportunity to earn all Commercial Food Service Equipment Service Association (CFESA) certifications. A Typical Day:

• Provide exceptional customer service, effectively communicating equipment information and troubleshooting solutions in a friendly and professional manner.
• Utilize equipment manuals, wiring diagrams, and parts listings to diagnose and resolve equipment issues.
• Maintain all customer call information into a company database to better assist future inquiries.

• Responsible for being the front-line support and order process expert for sales representatives and customers.
• Manage orders from start to finish including order entry, verifying acknowledgements, vendor confirmations, order changes, status checks, sourcing, order tracking, claims, and returns.
• Perform daily transactions in Prelude, Griffin’s order management program, as well as on our B2B website.
  • Including, but not limited to, customer order management.
• Drive order integrity of customer accounts throughout the entire business year. This involves, but is not limited to, managing orders, shipping, subs, cuts, pricing, claims, and returns.
• Pulling and filing of sales orders.
• Responsible for timely communication via email and phone with sales representatives, customers, and vendors.
• Provide sales reports to sales representatives or customers when requested.
• Communicate deadlines and supplies pertinent and related vendor information to customers.
• Maintain and build positive relationships with management, customer service team, sales force, customers, and vendors.
• Always strive for the highest customer satisfaction by exceeding customer expectations.
• Manage time to effectively handle and prioritize multiple inbound and outbound calls, solve customer issues, and complete daily activities.
• Provide recommendations for problem resolution.
• Provide back-up for team members on a regular basis, provide back-up in other areas as requested.
• Participate in special projects as requested.
• Identify system issues, enhancements and recommend solutions to help exceed customer expectations.
• Assist in system testing and training.
• Willingly work additional hours during the busy season, or complete tasks outside of the job description as the yearly business cycle dictates.

DuPagePads is seeking a Case Manager to join their team. The Housing Specialist is responsible for creating and maintaining relationships with landlords, private and non-profit, who will work with the agency’s clients, engage with clients individually and/or in group sessions, to guide and assist clients in searching for and applying for housing, as appropriate, and guiding clients in overcoming barriers to housing whenever possible. Responsibilities:

• Operates within the DuPagePads Core Values, which supports providing care in accordance with the Trauma Informed Care Policy and Practices of the Agency.
• Outreach to community, business owners, realtors, landlords, housing developers, and other service providers to identify new and existing leasing opportunities and build strong relationships to better assist clients in accessing housing.
• Sustain landlord relationships and addresses and needs to ensure continued partnership on behalf of clients, including maintaining a list of currently available housing opportunities with partner landlords.
• Connect and collaborate with Client Services Case Managers regarding client housing needs, updates to clients’ housing searches and engagement with the Housing Specialist, including individual meetings and group meetings.
• Facilitate weekly Housing Group for clients to inform them of the housing process and options in the county and within the agency.
• Facilitate multiple weekly Housing Search Groups, guiding clients in searching for available and appropriate housing opportunities.
• Provide individual, group, or other services / duties 2-3 evenings per week, with later starts those days.
• May include some case management as assigned.
• Participate in staff meetings and training as directed by supervisor.