The Grants Manager is responsible for a portfolio of prospective and current funders – foundations, corporations, and government agencies. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. 

• Meets with health center executives and management to identify funding needs/priorities, to develop proposal strategies, and to gather related information.
• Conducts prospect research among government agencies, foundations, and corporations for funding sources that match the needs of the health center.
• Develops and submits letters of inquiry, proposals, and applications for funding to government agencies, foundations, and corporations. 
• Works with outreach team members to identify and document health center stories that may be used for funding proposals.
• Develops and implements grant administration policies and procedures to ensure grant compliance and adherence to best practices.
• Provides information and makes recommendations to health center leadership and management regarding funding trends and upcoming opportunities to assist with setting the organization’s funding priorities.
• Contributes to the development of the organization’s funding priorities to create a strategic funding plan.
• Provides training and assistance to program staff to ensure that they understand the grant cycle and their roles and responsibilities.
• Attends legislative, public, and advocacy group hearings related to possible funding sources or partnerships as needed.
• Prioritizes projects to keep multiple projects moving in a timely manner, meets deadlines and manages supplemental material required for proposals.
• Maintains reports on progress status of proposals and grants: received, requested, denied and pending.
• Maintains all aspects related to online grant submission and reporting portals with appropriate log-ins and passwords.
• Ensures that funders receive comprehensive reports in accordance with grant contracts and preferences; coordinates with relevant health center staff to collect pertinent data in a consistent and timely manner; periodically audits data collected to ensure accuracy; coordinates with accounting and fiscal staff for needed financial information and data/statistics reports.
• Oversees maintenance of records/documents in accordance with clinic policies and procedures, contractual obligations, and funding sources.
• Analyzes, tracks, and reports on programmatic activity.

Required:
Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university.
Three to five years of grant writing and project coordination experience.