# Grants Manager

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Sacramento, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $84,872-$91,137
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Grants Manager is primarily responsible for overseeing the full range of pre- and post-award activities required to prepare concept notes, proposals, and budgets, comply with internal approval processes, and align with compliance requirements of public agencies and private foundations.

**Major Responsibilities:**

- Development and Grants Management

- Prospecting: Represent Sacramento office in all regional opportunities, particularly for restricted funding, in close coordination with Site Directors, Development Director, Technical Advisors, relevant program leads, and grant coordinators.

- Proposal Development (Pre-Award): Develop and manage the Sacramento region's proposal calendar. Lead concepts note, proposal, and budget development, including ensuring log frames, program design, and narrative meet high quality standards.

- Grants Management (Post-Award): Modify final budgets as requested by donor and Site Director/program lead and communicate with Finance and RAM to ensure incoming restricted funds will be tracked.

- Partnerships: Be a local subject expert in IRC's internal partnership process, PEERS, to provide technical support to the Partnership Grants Coordinator.

- Supervision & training: Provide leadership and management of the Grant Coordinator in Turlock, to ensure all tasks are covered and team workload is managed in a way that respects and promotes work life balance and professional growth.

- Systems & Accountability: Maintain proposal calendar, pipelines, grants tracking, and regularly update senior management with up-to-date data.

**Secondary duties:**

- Work closely with site leads and program staff to prepare interim and final reports to grantors.

**Key Working Relationships:**

- Position Reports to: Development Director

- Position Supervises: Grants Coordinator (in Turlock office)

- Indirect Reporting: Site Director

- Other Internal and/or External Contacts: Director of Finance, Sacramento/Turlock Executive Director, Sacramento Program Managers & Coordinators, Technical Advisors, HQ Resource Acquisition and Management department, Foundations and public funders at city, county, state, and federal levels.

**Job Requirements:**

- Education: Bachelor's Degree required in nonprofit management, community development, social sciences, social work, or related fields, or demonstrated work experience of similar knowledge. Master's degree a plus.

- Work Experience: Five+ years of nonprofit or public sector experience in development and grants. Five+ years of experience in a supervisory role.

- Demonstrated Skills and Competencies: Excellent writing, research, and organizational skills. Familiarity with grants process of government funding agency(ies) (federal, state, or county/city level). Familiarity with the Sacramento non-profit/philanthropy environment a plus.

- Language Skills: Excellence in written and spoken English.

**Working Environment:**

- Standard hybrid office environment (this is not a fully remote position).

- Occasional travel to Turlock office site as needed.

**Compensation:**

- ($84,872-$91,137 - Annually).

**Benefits:**

- IRC offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. Highlights include 10 paid sick leave, 10 U.S. holidays, 20-25 generous paid time off based on role and tenure, medical insurance starting at $163/month, dental starting at $6.50/month, and vision starting at $5/month, flexible spending accounts (healthcare, dependent care, and commuter), a 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match (immediate vesting) along with a non-elective employer contribution based on age and years of service (3-year vesting), disability and life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering confidential counseling and support services for employees and their families.

## Skills

### Required
- grants management
- proposal development
- budgeting
- project management
- communication
- leadership

### Nice to have
- IRC systems (PEERS and OTIS)
- familiarity with Sacramento non-profit/philanthropy environment
- certification in project management, proposal development and/or fundraising

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