Description
The Organization
Community Partners offers expert guidance, essential services, and a strong dose of passion to help foster, launch, and grow creative solutions to community challenges. For almost 30 years, hundreds of individuals, groups, foundations, and other institutions have worked with Community Partners to create new nonprofit projects, establish coalitions, and manage major philanthropic initiatives to benefit the region.
Across all program areas, Community Partners works toward our organizational vision: A vibrant society in which individuals and institutions use knowledge, resources, and relationships to build equitable, democratic, and thriving communities.
Our work includes:
Intermediary Programs
We help foundations, corporations, government agencies and other institutions achieve greater impact.
Fiscal Sponsorship
We provide the structure, finance and administrative services, expert counsel that help nonprofit leaders succeed.
Knowledge Sharing
We offer workshops, reports, speaking engagements and a range of publications to help strengthen the field.
Community Partners today works with upwards of 180 projects and initiatives and manages roughly $90 million in revenues annually. Our work spans the fields of civic engagement, arts and culture, education, racial and social justice, health, public policy, social services, and youth. To learn more, please visit us at www.CommunityPartners.org.
THE POSITION
Reporting to the Senior Director of Grants Administration and Compliance, this position supports the
Community Partners and its projects in full life cycle management of grant awards and contracts.
Projects will include subawards and/or fiscally sponsored entities. This position requires strong leadership and grant management experience. The Director is responsible for overseeing a team of
grant administration professionals and for developing and implementing best practices to facilitate grant compliance for public and private funds.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
PHYSICAL
The employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time, and frequently required to walk and stand. The employee must also use his/her hands to operate and feel office equipment and reach with hands and arms. Employee may occasionally climb, stoop, kneel, or bend. Employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with special needs to perform essential job duties.
COMPENSATION
$103,000 – 120,000 DOE
Benefits include 15 paid holidays and 10 vacation days per year during first two years of employment and increases based on years of service thereafter, a 403(b) plan with employer match after two years of employment, medical, dental, vision, flex spending, and a range of professional development opportunities. Community Partners has a 9/80 work week option under which employees may elect to work 80 hours in 9 days and take every other Friday off (after completion of introductory period).
Community Partners® is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. In addition, the organization will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
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