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.