Grant Director Jobs

Description:Mary's Place is Hiring a Grant Director!
The Grant Director serves as lead grant writer and heads a team focused on maintaining a robust system to identify and apply for grant opportunities, track completion and compliance, and facilitate necessary reporting. This position is responsible for designing and overseeing the grant management system and best practices for the organization, and to support all departments in the successful implementation of grant funding.
The Grants Director actively engages in Mary's Place racial equity work – striving for equitable outcomes and taking responsibility for creating, maintaining, and affirming communities for people of color, immigrants and refugees, trans and gender-non-conforming people, and other populations who routinely encounter systemic oppressions.
This is a full-time, salaried exempt position, with flexibility to work extended hours to meet the demands of the position, including the ability to work evening and weekend hours as needed. The annual salary range is $92,000 to $100,000.
The Grant Director reports directly to the Chief Development Officer. This position supervises a team of two grant managers.
Key Responsibilities
• Develops and oversees organizational grants strategy including funding from foundation, corporate, and government grants. Works with Chief Development Officer to ensure grants strategy aligns with organizational fundraising strategy.
• Maintains annual grants application calendar with eligibility requirements. Responsible for ensuring all deadlines are met.
• Oversees all grant development related stages through submission including prospect identification, pre-proposal strategy and materials, RFP evaluation and mission alignment, content development, proposal writing, and supporting documentation such as budgets, timelines, and other agency documents.
• Works with Executive Director, CDO, Vice President of Finance, and Grants Manager to complete due diligence on current grant programs.
• Provides guidance and leadership on compliance with federal and other government grant regulations.
• Leads proposal writing and submission for grant LOIs and proposals, with input from program and organizational staff to ensure alignment with mission, vision, and current trends.
• Works collaboratively with program directors, leadership staff, and board members to organize and manage teams for complex proposals and develop responsive, realistic proposals that align with Mary's Place mission, vision, and strategy.
• Collaborates with Grant Manager, Finance and relevant departments to obtain needed information to create budgets for proposals
• Supervises Grant Managers to maintain robust systems to manage grant implementation and reporting, collaborating with Finance, Data, and Program departments to establish cross-functional systems for monitoring and reporting.
• Develops and maintains compelling content and support resources, such as templates and toolkits, to help streamline the grant development process. Makes these resources available to development team.
• Works in partnership with Chief Development Officer and Finance team on revenue reconciliation and forecasting.
• Oversees Grant Managers to track grant spending, outcomes, and facilitate financial and programmatic reporting.
• Provides stewardship to current grant donors and manage funder relations and donor acknowledgment.
• Actively engages in Mary's Place racial equity work; strive for racially equitable outcomes; take responsibility for creating and maintaining affirming communities for people of color, immigrants and refugees, trans and gender-non-conforming folks, and other populations who routinely encounter systemic oppressions
• Assists with other fundraising projects as requested
Requirements:
Skills/Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of relevant development experience with proven record of writing proposals and receiving grants, including federal grants
• Excellent writing, analytical, and research skills
• Strong editing skills
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Understanding of local, state, and federal government grant sources
• Knowledge of local and national foundations, particularly in the area of homelessness
• Familiar with grant research techniques for fundraising prospect research
• Clear desire to embrace and align with Mary's Place's mission of empowering homeless women, children, and families to reclaim their lives
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products
• Attention to detail, interacting with others in-person and through email, using critical thinking skills to strategize, develop and implement business plans, create and edit documents, listen and participate verbally at meetings
• Ability to travel between Mary's Place sites, programs, and meetings outside the office, and around the county as needed
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Ability to converse with and listen to people in many different settings
• Ability to use a computer and telephone, as well as other standard office equipment
• Frequently required to stand, walk, use fingers, hands, and arms
• Ability to occasionally push, pull, lift, and/or carry supplies up to 25 pounds
• Work takes place in a social services environment where long periods of sitting, working on a computer, walking to various work areas, going up and down stairs, and standing are required
• Travel to program sites and meetings outside the site and around the county are necessary
• Ability to work in an environment where there may be animals present, including dogs
In compliance with the ADA Amendment Act, should you have a disability that requires assistance and/or reasonable accommodation with the job application process, please contact the Human Resources department.
Qualified individuals must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation. A qualified person with a disability may request a modification or adjustment to the job or work environment to meet the physical requirements of the position. Mary's Place will attempt to satisfy requests if the accommodation needed is reasonable and no undue hardship to Mary's Place would result.
Details
In addition, Mary's Place offers the following benefits to full-time staff:
• Medical and dental insurance with the cost for core employee coverage paid at 100% by the company and competitive family rates
• Basic Life insurance of $50,000 at no cost to employee; option to buy additional coverage
• 403(b) plan with 50% employer match on the first 6% employee contribution. Eligible to participate upon hire; eligible for match after first year of employment
• Unlimited use ORCA pass for a small deduction per pay period
• 15 days paid time off (PTO) each calendar year (front-loaded and pro-rated)
• 10 days of sick time each calendar year (front-loaded and pro-rated)
• 10 days of flexible floating holidays each calendar year (accrued 40 hours on Jan. 1 and July 1 and pro-rated during first year)
• Employee Assistance Program
Mary's Place is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value a diverse workplace and strongly encourage women, people of color and other underrepresented groups, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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