Grants Manager

Consumer Credit Counseling Service is a non-profit organization that specializes in budget, credit, bankruptcy, and housing counseling.  We also offer debt management and financial education to consumers. CCCS is currently looking for a Grants Manager that will be responsible for managing the timely submission of grant proposals and reports.  This position ensures that proposals are well-written, complete and targeted to appropriate funders, and that outcomes are tracked and reported accurately.

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities

 A. Grant Writing, Research and Coordination ·  Works with Director of Development to create a strategy for corporate, foundation and government grants.

·  Supervises grant writers to ensure that grants are submitted according to the grants calendar, and the agency standards for quality and completeness are maintained.

·  Responsible for ensuring that all reports are submitted to funders in a timely manner.

· Maintains annual calendar for submitting grant proposals, recognizing grant revenue, and reporting grant outcomes to funders.

· Responsible for tracking grant outcomes and preparing monthly reports on those outcomes.

· Researches potential funding opportunities with local, regional and national foundations, corporations, and governments.

 B. Database and Materials Maintenance

· Maintains grants-related records in database, ensuring that all grant proposals are entered and progress is tracked

· Communicates with appropriate staff from other departments to track and report all revenue generated by development activities.

· Prepares monthly financial reports for grants.

 C. Internal and External Communication 

· Prepares and distributes internal departmental updates, as needed.

 Management Support 

§ Provides coaching and regular reviews to assigned team members

§ Recommend CCCS improvements that increase value and/or decrease costs

§ Recommend Development department improvements that will increase results and/or decrease costs

 

 

Supervisory Responsibilities:

The Grants manager supervises staff and contractual grant writers.

 

Qualifications: 

· Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university.

· Excellent computer skills, including familiarity with databases and with Microsoft Word, Excel, and other Office programs. Experience working with donor databases preferred but not required.

· Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

· Management experience preferred.

· Four to five years related experience required.  Specifically writing corporate and foundation grants (non government grants).

· Must have satisfactory credit.

 

Physical demands: 

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.