Director, Foundation Grants Strategy

Central Health•Austin, TX

About The Position

The Director, Foundation Grants Strategy leads the Central Health Foundation’s institutional funding and grants strategy and coordinates Foundation-led and collaborative grant opportunities across the Central Health Enterprise. The Director identifies and evaluates funding opportunities, develops and coordinates competitive proposals, cultivates institutional funder relationships, and supports administration of grants and subgrants held or issued by the Foundation. The position works with Foundation leadership, Central Health, CommUnityCare, Sendero, and existing enterprise grants functions to align funding opportunities with organizational priorities and clarify responsibilities throughout the grant lifecycle. The Director serves as the Foundation’s grants subject-matter expert and supports coordinated enterprise visibility into funding opportunities, submissions, awards, requirements, and risks. The role does not replace or directly supervise existing grants-management functions within Central Health, CommUnityCare, or Sendero. The role leads Foundation grant strategy and portfolio planning; coordinates opportunity intake, review, and enterprise governance; develops and coordinates proposals; manages institutional funder relationships; oversees post-award coordination for Foundation-held grants; coordinates Foundation-issued grants and subgrants; supports restricted-fund, compliance, and financial coordination; and develops portfolio reporting and continuous-improvement processes. The Director may also lead assigned grants-related projects and coordinate consultants, vendors, or temporary resources within delegated authority, as applicable.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in public administration, public health, business administration, nonprofit management, communications, finance, or a related field; required. A higher degree is accepted.
At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience in grant strategy, grant writing, grant management, institutional giving, nonprofit fundraising, public-sector grants, healthcare grants, or a related field; required.
Experience managing work across the grant lifecycle, including opportunity assessment, proposal development, budgets, agreements, reporting, compliance, and closeout; required.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in public administration, public health, business administration, nonprofit management, communications, finance, healthcare administration, or a related field; preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, implement, and regularly evaluate the Foundation’s institutional funding and grants strategy in alignment with Central Health’s mission, strategic priorities, health-equity goals, and approved philanthropic initiatives.
Partner with Foundation and enterprise leaders and program stakeholders to identify funding priorities appropriate for foundation, corporate, governmental, and other institutional funding.
Maintain a coordinated portfolio of prospective, pending, awarded, active, and closed Foundation grant opportunities; establish portfolio goals, performance indicators, reporting expectations, and review processes.
Monitor funder priorities, open solicitations, public-policy developments, and funding trends; evaluate opportunities for strategic fit, eligibility, readiness, burden, impact, match requirements, compliance risk, sustainability, and community benefit.
Prepare opportunity summaries, portfolio recommendations, risk assessments, and performance updates; maintain a Foundation grants calendar and support enterprise visibility into significant opportunities and deadlines.
Lead a structured intake and review process for Foundation-led and collaborative grant opportunities.
Coordinate with Central Health, CommUnityCare, Sendero, and other enterprise grants teams to avoid duplicate submissions, competing applications, conflicting funder outreach, and unclear accountability.
Facilitate decisions about whether opportunities should be pursued by the Foundation, an enterprise entity, or collaboratively; document decisions, roles, responsibilities, timelines, risks, dependencies, and escalation pathways.
Support grants oversight and enterprise grants-governance processes; coordinate cross-entity planning without assuming supervisory authority over employees outside the Foundation.
Lead proposal development for opportunities where the Foundation is the applicant or designated lead, and coordinate collaborative proposals involving multiple enterprise organizations.
Partner with entity grants teams and program stakeholders to develop letters of inquiry, concept papers, applications, narratives, and supporting materials that communicate organizational priorities, community needs, program design, outcomes, and implementation capacity.
Coordinate proposal timelines, assignments, reviews, approvals, and submission requirements; partner with Finance and program leaders on budgets, budget narratives, cost allocations, match documentation, and sustainability plans.
Ensure submissions are accurate, complete, reviewed, and approved; maintain proposal, funder, and submission records in the designated grants or donor-management system.
Develop and maintain institutional funder relationships; serve as relationship owner for assigned funders and coordinate funder communication with designated leaders and stakeholders.
Prepare leaders for funder meetings, briefings, site visits, and due diligence; represent the Foundation in funder discussions, collaborative planning, and appropriate external forums within delegated authority.
Maintain records of funder priorities, communications, proposals, agreements, reporting requirements, and relationship activity; identify opportunities to strengthen partnerships and expand support.
Oversee post-award coordination for Foundation-held grants, including assigning responsibilities for implementation, financial management, reporting, compliance, communications, and stewardship.
Coordinate review, routing, execution, maintenance, and renewal of Foundation grant agreements with Foundation Operations, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and program owners.
Maintain systems and calendars for award terms, deliverables, reporting deadlines, spending periods, match requirements, amendments, and closeout; coordinate the collection and review of information for funder reports.
Monitor compliance with grant agreements, donor restrictions, approved budgets, and reporting obligations; identify and escalate noncompliance, spending issues, missed deadlines, performance concerns, and other portfolio risks.
Coordinate requests for amendments, extensions, budget revisions, scope changes, or other funder approvals; support audits, monitoring reviews, due diligence, and corrective actions for Foundation-held awards.
Coordinate grants and subgrants issued by the Foundation to enterprise entities, community partners, or other approved recipients; partner with Legal, Finance, Compliance, Foundation Operations, and recipients on agreements and administration.
Establish and monitor recipient requirements for fund use, deliverables, financial documentation, program reporting, audit rights, monitoring, and corrective action; coordinate due diligence, risk review, routing, and approvals.
Review or coordinate review of recipient programmatic and financial reports; maintain visibility into award activity, restricted-fund balances, reporting status, performance, and risks; coordinate amendments, corrective actions, closeout, and follow-up.
Partner with Foundation Operations and Finance to maintain visibility into grant-related restricted funds, award balances, spending, and reporting requirements; communicate grant restrictions and requirements to responsible owners.
Coordinate compliance activities with Legal, Compliance, Finance, Internal Audit, and other subject-matter experts; support grant-related policies, procedures, controls, documentation, audits, funder reviews, regulatory reporting, and closeout.
Escalate material financial, legal, compliance, or stewardship concerns and maintain complete and accurate grant, agreement, reporting, and compliance records.
Develop and maintain dashboards and reports covering opportunities, proposals, awards and declines, portfolio value, reporting status, restricted-fund activity, spending and performance risks, funder engagement, and Foundation-issued grants and subgrants.
Provide regular portfolio updates to Foundation leadership and applicable oversight groups; evaluate process timeliness, quality, compliance, and effectiveness.
Develop and maintain grants policies, procedures, templates, calendars, intake tools, decision records, and reference materials; identify improvements to coordination, proposal quality, risk reduction, and workflows.
Maintain current knowledge of grants management, healthcare philanthropy, institutional giving, public-sector funding, and funder requirements; lead assigned grants projects and coordinate consultants, vendors, or temporary resources within delegated authority, as applicable.