Grants Manager

Company: Mutual Housing
Location: Sacramento
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

Description:
Grants Manager Location: Mutual Housing Headquarters Department: Community Development Reports To: Director, Resident Services FSLA Status: Exempt Direct Reports: NoneFTE: Full-Time; 100% FTESalary Range: $75,000 - $80,000, DOE POSITION SUMMARYThis position is a key member of the Community Development Department (CDD) and works with the CDD program staff to manage the organization's grant fund development, including research, writing, submission, management, and reporting. The position will help grow both the number of grant funders and the amount of revenue generated through grant funding. A significant element of this position is to develop and manage workflow processes around fundraising to ensure CDD program staff success. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITIONPrepare and compile each grant submission, ensuring that the proposal is formatted, packaged, and submitted in accordance with granting agency requirements.Work in collaboration with CDD program staff to ensure that program goals, funding needs, and strategy are incorporated into all funding requests and submissions.Take the lead on writing, information gathering, and submission of grants with support from CDD program staff.Support CDD program staff with reporting, including setting report timelines, support with writing, and providing guidance on data needs for reports.Design and manage workflow processes and procedures to ensure efficient grants submission, tracking of deliverables and reporting.Manage grant and funder tracking on Salesforce, including creating calendars, grant and reporting timelines, funder notes, and tracking other fund-related data.Coordinate with the Accounting department to ensure grant funding is aligned with organizational income and expense reports.Provide reporting and compliance review as necessary during the life of the grant.Ensure the timely submission of all grant reports.Research new grants opportunities and create summary statements about potential fit into organizational funding goals.ACCOUNTABILITYUnder minimal supervision, exercises independent discretion in performance of most job responsibilities. Exercises considerable latitude, however work is reviewed regularly by CDD program staff, supervisor, and Executive Team to determine alignment with organizational and programmatic goals and objectives. Establishes project objectives and delegates assignments.LANGUAGE ABILITYWell-developed written and verbal communications skills to exchange technical and complex information, particularly related to non-profit programs. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to deliver well-written documents and reports. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.MATH ABILITYAbility to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.REASONING ABILITYAbility to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL DEMANDSThe work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required sit, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.The employee is occasionally required to work in outdoor weather conditions.May require lifting of up to 25 pounds.The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.

Requirements:
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONSMinimum of two years of experience in delivering community-based programs, providing administrative support at a non-profit, and/or fundraising and other development work. Experience in grant writing and fund development work is preferred.Bachelor's degree is preferred.REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLSWell-developed written and verbal communications skills to exchange technical and complex information, particularly related to non-profit programs.Ability to gather data, compile information and prepare grant proposals, budgets, and outcomes for a wide variety of projects.Grant management database, Salesforce, or other database management experience.Good project management & organization skills. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLSKnowledge of grants research and application processes.Ability to write the story of Mutual Housing and CDD programs in a compelling manner in corporate, foundation and government grants.PM20PI181597523

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