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Open Position: Loan and Outreach Officer
CFNE is a leader in co-op community development finance. We’ve been fostering a healthy remote work environment with fair and competitive pay and benefits for over 50 years.
We are seeking candidates to fill one open position on our great team:
Position Title: Loan and Outreach Officer
Service Area: Maine
We strongly encourage Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people to apply.
Position Summary
The Loan and Outreach Officer for Maine is a key position that builds relationships with cooperative enterprises, helps them thrive, analyzes financial information to support better decision-making, and makes debt capital accessible to businesses and communities that might not otherwise get that start.
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To apply:
Applicants can send their cover letters and resumes to hiring@cooperativefund.org, with priority consideration given to applications received by 12/22/2025, and encouragement to send applications until the position is filled.
About Cooperative Fund of the Northeast (CFNE)
The Cooperative Fund of the Northeast (CFNE) is a community development loan fund that bridges socially responsible investors and cooperatives, community oriented non-profits, and worker-owned businesses in New England and New York. Since 1975 CFNE has supported consumer, small producer, housing, and worker-owned co-ops by providing over $100 million in flexible financing, as well as customized technical assistance. This has created or preserved thousands of jobs and affordable housing units, without losing any investor funds.
We work for economic, social, and racial justice by advancing community based, cooperative, and democratically owned or managed enterprises with a preference to assisting cooperatives in low-income communities by:
- Providing financial products at reasonable rates
- Developing business skills
- Offering an investment opportunity that promotes socially conscious enterprise
Read more about CFNE here.
About the Team
We are a remote team (15 staff members, 9 board members) of cooperative members and advocates located across the Northeast who are invested in developing our communities through thriving cooperative enterprises. We have committed as a leadership team to investing more resources into racial equity, including reexamining our policies, developing new products, and implementing an internal racial equity-focused learning program. We make room for intentional conversations, respect work/life balance, and encourage individual growth. Now, as a growing team, we are presented with many opportunities for programmatic and impact growth. We are excited to reach deeper into communities across the northeast to advance learning, living and justice through cooperatives.
Position Details
Position Title: Loan and Outreach Officer
Service Area: Maine
The Loan and Outreach Officer will be responsible for underwriting loan requests from cooperatively-owned enterprises, performing community outreach and client relationship development, and managing all aspects of CFNE’s lending services to a diverse portfolio of cooperatives in their service area. This role structures, qualifies, and monitors loans, as well as provides organizations with technical assistance and financial analysis, as time allows. The Loan and Outreach Officer will support various projects largely related to marketing and portfolio development. This position requires creative partnership development to succeed, as well as a demonstrated commitment to social, economic and racial justice.
This full-time, salaried, non-exempt position will work remotely from a home office, and reports to the Deputy Executive Director, with starting salary in the $65,000 -$90,000, depending on experience.
Essential Functions
- Facilitate lending process
- Build and maintain client and community relationships
- Provide technical (business) assistance (TA) to loan applicants and borrowers
- Support marketing, outreach, and development
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Other Responsibilities
- Meetings: Attend (by phone or computer) all Loan Committee, staff, and lending team meetings.
- Representation: Participate in civic and community events, funders’ meetings and seminars, and others as assigned by the Deputy Executive Director.
- Projects: Contribute to team effort by working on special projects, programs, and reports as assigned by the Deputy Executive Director.
Qualifications
REQUIRED:
- Basic financial statement literacy, demonstrated ability to work with spreadsheets and financial analysis
- Exceptional interpersonal relations, public speaking, and analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently, with strong time management skills, as well as an ability to collaborate with a close-knit group.
- Demonstrate flexibility, creativity, and a sincere willingness to learn.
- Demonstrated ability to work with clientele of wide ranging cultural backgrounds, educational level, and socioeconomic status.
- Proficiency with Google Suite and Microsoft Office applications. Experience with SalesForce a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; Bi-lingual a plus. Valid driver’s license and required use of a private and reliable automobile.
- Reside in the service area.
PREFERRED:
- At least three to five years of experience with lending/loan processing/servicing, ideally in commercial banking or with another CDFI
- Significant experience (such as a Master’s degree or relevant professional work) in cooperative sector, economic development, small business ownership or entrepreneurship, business training/counseling, public administration, community organizing, or other related field
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