Grants Manager

Description

Reporting Directly to the Chief Executive Officer, the Grants Manager shall be responsible for preparing bids, proposals and/or applications on potential Federal and non-federal awards or projects, including the development of data necessary to support the bids or proposals.

Primary responsibilities include preparation of proposals and grant applications and performance of responsible professional and administrative work in researching, identifying developing and responding to public and private opportunities for awards or projects in areas that support the mission of Community Council of Greater Dallas.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Research and identify government, corporate, foundation and private funding proposals to match CCGD mission
• Generate high quality proposals, bids, narratives, applications through timely submission of well-researched, well written and well documented proposals
• Maintain responsibility for development of data necessary to support bids and proposals
• Maintain responsibility for grant schedules and tracking grants
• Serve as a liaison to potential federal and non-federal funding as directed by the Chief Executive Officer
• Coordinate follow up on proposals
• Meet regularly with Leadership Team to discuss federal and non-federal awards or projects
• Work with Chief Financial Officer to develop budgets for all proposals
• Maintain confidentiality of organizational trade secrets
• Keeps CEO informed of status of all applications
• Maintaining master calendar of grants and prospects and all associated files and correspondence.
• Maintain grant compliance and reporting, including outcome measurement 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• At least 5 years’ experience as a successful grant writer
• Previous experience with grant budget development
• A proven record of securing major grants with certifiable references
• Knowledge and understanding of grant cycles, application process, and data development
• Previous federal grant application, submission and approval experience preferred
• Strong organizational skills
• Very strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders, including staff, board members, external partners and donors.
• Expert level written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated proactive approaches to problem-solving with strong decision-making capability.
• Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to also be extremely effective independently.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Forward looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions

Supervisory Responsibility:
This position has no supervisory responsibilities

Work Environment:
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. May work remotely.

Physical Demands
This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand as necessary.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Travel
Little or no overnight travel is expected for this position. There may be occasional local day travel.

Salary : $60,000