Budget Manager - North Carolina Council of District Attorneys

## Budget Manager - North Carolina Council of District Attorneys Apply:
Wake County, NC:
Full time:
Posted Yesterday:
End Date:
October 28, 2026 (20 days left to apply):
JR-125743
** Agency
* * Commission and Conferences
** Division
* * District Attorneys' Conference
** Job Classification Title
** Project Coordinator (NS)
** Position Number
**** Grade
* *** About Us
** DO YOUR CAREER JUSTICE! Each and every day, North Carolina's courts help provide safety for our communities, prosperity for our economy, and protection for the rights, liberties, and freedoms that sit at the foundation of our state and federal constitutions. Consider an exciting and rewarding career with us and join the more than 7,000 elected officials and employees who make up our workforce and help us ensure that justice is administrated without favor, denial, or delay.
** Description of Work
**** Knowledge

Skills and Abilities

/Management Preferences
**** SALARY RANGE: $ - $*
* ** The opportunity
** Help build the financial foundation of a new state agency with a mission that reaches every corner of North Carolina. The newly established Council of District Attorneys seeks an experienced, thoughtful, and collaborative Budget Manager to develop and guide its budgeting and financial management operations in support of North Carolina’s elected District Attorneys and the prosecution function of the State of North Carolina.  

This position offers a meaningful opportunity to shape the Council’s financial systems, policies, and practices from the beginning. Your expertise will help translate statewide priorities into sound budgets, reliable financial information, and practical support for the people carrying out the work of prosecution.  You will join a collaborative, service-oriented team that values professional expertise, open communication, and shared problem-solving. Working closely with Council leadership, program staff, and state partners, you will help establish an agency that is responsive to District Attorneys and responsible in its stewardship of public resources.

** Position overview
** The Budget Manager leads the Council’s budget function while performing the hands-on analysis, development, execution, monitoring, and reporting needed to support agency operations. The position develops financial strategies, advises leadership, coordinates with statewide budget partners, and ensures that budgets and fiscal activities conform to applicable policies, procedures, and legal requirements.  
** Building the Council’s financial operations
*** Develop and implement budgeting policies, fiscal goals and standards, internal processes, and standard operating procedures; support implementation and enforcement of fiscal policies and establish clear, consistent practices for the new agency.
* Work with leadership and program staff to establish program budgets, define resource needs, and develop short and long range budget strategies that make the best use of state resources and advance the Council’s mission.
** Duties and responsibilities*
* ** Budget execution and oversight
*** Direct and perform day-to-day budget maintenance, development, and execution, including establishing, monitoring, and realigning program budgets supported by state appropriations, receipts, grants, federal funds, and nongovernmental funding sources.
* Analyze past, current, and anticipated financial obligations at varying levels of activity; research historical expenditure trends; prepare and reconcile expenditure, revenue, and position cost projections; and realign cost estimates as circumstances change.
* Monitor fiscal activities through monthly forecasting and analysis. Identify revenue and expenditure trends, potential shortfalls, and causes of deficits; monitor special fund…