Assistant Director - Grants Management
Salary Range: $70,000 - $80,000
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of current funders
- Prepare and submit grant applications
- Produce timely reporting
- Ensure contract compliance
- Conduct stewardship and correspondence activities
- Secure new funders; capture lapsed donors
- Perform prospect research, analysis and management; identify and cultivate potential donors
- Write private and public grants
- Match internal needs to external opportunities
- Collaborate to determine scope and mission fit
- Build multi-disiplinary consensus on goals, objectives, timelines, etc.
- Provide cross-team project management support
- Develop and administer an annual workplan
- Maintain grants calendar; ensure accuracy, meet due dates
- Create workflows and systems to enhance efficiencies, ensure transparencies and measure outcomes
- Coordinate cross-team efforts; act as liaison to grants function
- Maintain accurate records, ensure proper documentation
- Assist grant accounting efforts – application budgets, budget modifications, financial reporting, reconciliation, etc.
- Administration & Other
- Build and maintain strong inter-agency relationships
- Utilize database; conduct analysis and prepare reporting
- Support agency peers, including event assistance
- Prepare, plan for and support internal and external meetings
- Act as an ambassador and champion of CHSC’s mission
Essential Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of successful philanthropic grant writing experience
- Experience taking the lead on successful team projects
- Ability to learn quickly on the job and synthesize complex themes in writing
- Exceptional attention to detail, professional judgment and critical thinking skills
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task and organize for maximum efficiency
- Ability to work independently
- DonorPerfect or other fundraising database experience highly preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required