Job Description

The Grants Manager is responsible for researching, preparing, submitting, and managing grant proposals/reports that support the organization's goals and meet funder guidelines and criteria. Enhancing funding models and identifying new sources of funding. Serves as the primary grant writer, engages in compliance reporting, and tracks and manages grant deadlines. This position requires strong writing, data analysis, program budgeting, project management skills, with an emphasis on outcome measurement.

Duties for the grants manager will include managing overall grant efforts, documenting payments and expenditure, optimizing the grant administration process, overseeing fund-raising, coordinating the progress reports, ensuring compliance with grant regulations, reviewing grant proposals, and managing grant databases. Your skills and expertise in successful grants management will aid the organization in serving the public by securing continuous funding, improving business opportunities through effective funding programs, and executing meaningful projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead grant proposal and submission- preparing and organizing materials for proposals, and submitting and motoring grant applications, including:
• Research appropriate funding sources for programs, general operating, and capital improvement.
• Coordinate with CFO to create organizational yearly funding plan
• Maintain grant calendar with project-specific deadlines and deliverables
• Plan proposals, write requests, and prepare to submit reports to the specifications of grant agencies, manage all required documentation and packaging while maintaining quality control over submissions
• Coordinating and engaging with grant writers.
• Identifying support agencies.
• Optimizing the grant administration process.
• Coordinating and assisting in the preparation of budgets.
• Identify and attend trainings
• Maintain excel spreadsheet on share drive documenting where to submit reports for grants and name of project officer from Grantor.
• Tracking grant applications.
• Be well versed in the goals, objectives and outcomes of each individual program.
• Keep CEO and CFO informed of grant applications and reporting activity, awards, and declines: submit monthly internal reports of activity
• Submitting grant applications via paper or online portals and maintain list of passwords.
• Researching statistics, trends and data for grant proposals and community advocacy
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

* Degree in business administration or equivalent.

* Bachelor's degree (or 3-7 years of work experience with, FQHC, nonprofit administration, grant writing, or fundraising).

* 3 years of experience in fundraising, grant writing or grants management.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.