Grants Manager

1 day ago


Phoenix, United States Fresh Start Women's Foundation Full time
About Fresh Start Women's Foundation:

Fresh Start Women's Foundation provides education, resources, and support for women to positively transform their lives and strengthen their communities. Celebrating over 32 years of helping women across the Greater Phoenix area, Fresh Start envisions a community where every woman reaches her full potential through achieving personal empowerment and financial independence. Fresh Start supports women 18 years and older by providing essential and comprehensive services that focus on job training and career development, life skills, family law support, social work services, and financial literacy workshops. Fresh Start has helped thousands of women transform their own lives and the lives of their children and families.

Diversity is a core value at Fresh Start Women's Foundation. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for all clients, staff, and stakeholders. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by broadening the range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions.

Job Summary:

As an integral member of the development team, the Grants Manager is primarily responsible for proactively identifying and researching foundation, corporate, and government grant opportunities; cultivating relationships with new and existing grantors; managing the grants' calendar; and drafting all inquiry letters, applications, and reporting information. The ideal candidate will possess excellent verbal and written communication, take initiative to strengthen the grants program, and be extremely organized and a team player This full-time position reports directly to the Chief Development Officer. The salary is commensurate with experience and includes benefits.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

The Grants Managers primary responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:
  • Managing a caseload of grantors.
  • Exploring all foundation, private, corporate, and government funding opportunities that may be appropriate for Fresh Start Women's Foundation programs and general operations.
  • Research existing and new granting prospects, as well as qualifying prospective funding leads.
  • Cultivating grantor relationships, leveraging existing community relationships, and creating a professional network of funding prospects.
  • Writing LOIs, case statements; grant proposals, acknowledgement letters, and follow-up communications.
  • Managing grants' calendar with application and reporting deadlines.
  • Tracking grants, status, moves-management, and communications in database.
  • Ensuring adherence to funding requirements that include research and analysis, outcome measurements, and evaluation techniques.
  • Setting goals with leadership for grant prospecting, grant proposal submittal, grant awards, and grant reporting.
  • Providing guidance and support to staff on grant-specific guidelines, as well as compliance with any applicable grant requirements.
  • Working with finance and program staff on the formulation of budget request and YTD budget status.
  • Preparing monthly reports to leadership and communicating productivity against key performance indicators (KPIs) and activities; reviewing grant awards with leadership to track with annual revenue goal.
  • Assisting development team with writing and editing Fresh Start communications.
  • Performing other related duties as needed by Chief Development Officer.
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

A bachelor's degree and a minimum of three (3) years of experience in grant writing is required, as well as the following:
  • Commitment to and alignment with Fresh Start's mission and vision.
  • Has a proven track record of successful grant wins.
  • Has a working knowledge of grant regulations, government grant requirements, and best practices in grant management.
  • Strong attention to detail and quality assurance, especially in development of proposals and other written materials.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication with understanding of voice, grammar, and style.
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills.
  • Diligence and self-motivation to meet deadlines with high-quality work.
  • Desire to learn more about fundraising and grow professionally.
  • Adept at using a database and excel to track grant information.
  • Flexible and adaptable.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a team player and as a positive contributor to both individual and department goals.

To Apply:

Questions, resume and cover letter should be directed to: HCoupland@fswf.org
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