TreePeople - Chief Grants and Contracts Officer

Envision Consulting • Los Angeles, CA

3h • $170,000 - $190,000 • Onsite

About The Position

TreePeople, a prominent environmental organization in Southern California founded in 1973, has inspired over 3 million people to take environmental action through planting and caring for trees. They utilize an engaging model to empower communities in creating a more resilient future and fostering personal responsibility for green spaces. TreePeople shares its knowledge globally through research and educational programs, offering actionable solutions to climate change challenges.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in federal and state funding regulations, nonprofit contract compliance, and grants administration.
• Extensive experience managing complex state and federal public funding portfolios.
• Strong command of allowable cost principles and reporting requirements.
• Organizational authority to serve as the organization’s primary compliance resource.
• Experience managing an active portfolio of approximately 90 contracts and grants with a total active funding value exceeding $70 million.
• Experience implementing a new contracts and grants management framework.
• Experience directly supervising and developing team staff, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and professional development.
• Experience building and managing a central team of two to four staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead the pre-award review process for all identified funding opportunities, assessing contract terms, compliance requirements, administrative burden, cash flow implications, and organizational risk before proposal submission.
• Serve as a required input on all go/no-go decisions, collaborating with the Strategy and Impact team, Program directors, and Finance to ensure proposals are structured for full cost recovery and compliance.
• Lead administrative burden assessments for each opportunity, working with Finance and program teams to evaluate invoicing requirements, reporting obligations, and systems capacity, and flag disproportionate burdens.
• Own and maintain the Contract and Grant Proposal Standard Operating Procedure.
• Review and approve all grant and contract agreements before execution, assessing legal terms, compliance obligations, and organizational risk and liability.
• Ensure all compliance obligations embedded in grant and contract agreements are systematically identified and assigned.
• Serve as the primary contract signatory for routine awards that meet compliance standards.
• Bring flagged items to a standing review with the CEO and CFO before execution.
• Engage outside legal counsel for agreements involving unusual liability, indemnification, or complex compliance risk.
• Maintain a complete and current organizational system of record for all active contracts and grants.
• Set and enforce standard operating procedures across the full grant lifecycle for all program departments.
• Provide functional oversight of Department Operations Managers through a dotted-line accountability relationship, serving as the escalation point for compliance issues.
• Designate members of the CGCO team as compliance backstop liaisons for each program department.
• Monitor compliance across the active portfolio and surface issues proactively.
• Ensure all staff with grant management responsibilities understand and consistently apply allowable cost principles, reporting requirements, and organizational SOPs.
• Own the award activation and onboarding process, ensuring grants and contracts are properly set up and compliance requirements are routed.
• Serve as the organizational escalation point for compliance, contractual, and programmatic issues on active grants.
• Oversee the closeout process, ensuring all eligible expenses are invoiced and all reporting obligations are met.
• Directly supervise and develop CGCO central team staff, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and professional development.
• Own and drive implementation of the Contracts and Grants Management Framework.
• Ensure financial reporting systems and processes provide the necessary compliance data.
• Work with the Sr. Director of Programs, program directors, and HR to conduct workload analyses calibrating staffing to portfolio complexity.
• Build and manage a central team of two to four staff supporting compliance, data management, and process oversight.

Benefits

• Generous benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed