What are the responsibilities and job description for the Grants Manager position at Sheppard Pratt Careers?
What to expect.
- The Grants Manager supports the full lifecycle of grant development and submission, from opportunity identification through post-award coordination.
- This role also contributes to office operations by maintaining grant-related systems, tracking funding opportunities, and ensuring accurate, timely communication across teams.
Principal Responsibilities and Duties:
- Evaluate grant opportunities by coordinating internal review processes, identifying stakeholders and gathering feedback, and presenting recommendations to leadership.
- Serve as lead for capital grants.
- Track forecasted funding opportunities for public grants.
- Assist with scheduling grant launch and grant development meetings.
- Maintain and update grant development dashboards and status reports.
- Compile and organize materials required for the grant application process.
- Review grant documents from program and finance teams to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
- Assist with drafting program overviews, updating standard boilerplate language, and crafting budget narratives.
- Prepare, assemble, and submit grant packages in accordance with funder requirements.
- Develop and maintain master files within Sharepoint and grants management software (pre and post award).
- Communicate updates on grant status, budgets, and awards to relevant stakeholders.
- Maintain a centralized repository of standard grant attachments and resources.
- Manage and update access credentials for grant submission portals.
- Prepare documents for post-award management and support scheduling regular check-ins with grant leads.
- Maintain master calendar of grant deadlines, reporting requirements, and key milestones.
- Coordinate grant close-out and debrief meetings.
- Prepare standard and custom reports from grants management software.
- Provide administrative and operational support to the OSP team, including meeting coordination and communications.
What you'll get from us.
At Sheppard Pratt, you will work alongside a multi-disciplined team led by a bold vision to change lives. We offer:
- A commitment to professional development, including a comprehensive tuition reimbursement program to support ongoing education and licensure and/or certification preparation
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits for benefit eligible positions
- 403b retirement match
- Generous paid-time-off for benefit eligible positions
- Complimentary Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Generous mileage reimbursement program
The pay range for this position is $54,074.18 minimum to $83,510.75 maximum. Pay for this position is determined on a number of factors, including but not limited to, years and level of related experience.
What we need from you.
- Bachelor’s degree is required.
- Experience with public or private grants in a community behavioral health organization is strongly preferred.
- Basic understanding of local, state, and federal funding sources and the ability to locate potential sources for funding preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Highly proficient with learning and using a wide variety of software and online systems (Microsoft Office Suite, grants management etc.)
- Extremely organized and meticulous with details.
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality in all communications and documentation.
- Excellent project management skills and ability to prioritize work and resources.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
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Salary : $54,074 - $83,511