Head Start Fiscal Officer

Job Description

Title: Head Start Fiscal Officer

Job : 5766844

Final date to receive applications: Jun 16, 2026 6:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Posted: Jun 08, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Position Type: Full Time

Salary: $47,532 - $70,500

Reports To: Director of the Lee County Public Schools Head Start

Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, business, fiscal management or related field with preferable three years’ experience

Special Requirements: Meet eligibility to be bonded;
Approval from the Head Start Regional Office

Job Description: The Head Start fiscal officer is responsible for managing the financial operations of the Head Start program and ensuring compliance with all Head Start standards, federal, state, and local regulations and time frames.

• Budget and financial Planning
  • Creating and maintaining the program budget
  • Tracking expenditures and ensuring compliance to the planned
• Accounting and Recordkeeping
  • Maintain financial records and accounts with proper documentation that reflect the program’s current financial status in RDA.
  • Determine program fiscal needs and request funds via Payment Management System to assure disbursement within the timeframe as stipulated by federal regulations.
  • Process invoices
• Compliance and Audit
  • Ensures program fiscal operations meet all requirements and policies for local, state, and federal
• Internal Controls and Procedures
  • Ensures appropriate internal controls and financial procedures are in
• Financial Reporting
  • Prepares accurate monthly financial data reports for program director, Policy Council, Governing body and OHS in a timely manner.
• Other Financial Tasks
  • Provides an effective system for preparation and processing purchase orders for the Head Start
  • Leads in the preparation of grant applications with the approval of the
  • Manages the fiscal component in grant
• Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Works closely with Head Start staff to support a comprehensive service
  • Participates in staff
  • Performs other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and/or
  • Maintains confidentiality of all records and information regarding the
• General
  • Participates in professional development
  • Accepts responsibility for and completes job assignments on
  • Follows scheduled work time and reports absences as

• This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 25 lbs., with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 lbs. Other physical demands that may be required include stooping and/or kneeling, reaching, talking, hearing, and seeing.

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an
• Adaptability to dealing with people beyond giving and receiving
• Adaptability to generalizing, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental

Special capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or perform adequately at task or job duty.

• Verbal:
  Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with
• Numerical:
  Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and
• Data Perception:
  Ability to understand and interpret information which may be presented in the form of graphs, charts, or tables.

Normal working environment