Director, Grants and Strategic Partnerships

St. Vincent Charity Medical Center • Columbia, SC

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About The Position

The Director of Grants and Strategic Partnerships identify and secures funding from diverse sources, including grants, corporate giving, and individual donors, while cultivating and managing relationships with key partners to advance organizational goals. This role involves developing proposals, grant reporting, and fundraising strategies, while ensuring compliance with funding requirements. It also entails working across internal departments and with external stakeholders to align strategy and achieve mission-driven outcomes. Supervises the Program Accountant and the Contractual Grant Writer.

Requirements

• Grants Management and Oversight: Extensive experience in managing and oversight of complicated grants portfolio to include grant writing and submission, reports production, managing expenditures and deadlines.
• Relationship Building: Strong people skills to build and maintain effective relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and execute comprehensive strategies for resource development and partnership growth.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for proposal writing, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: Excellent management and supervisory skills.
• Organizational & Analytical Skills: Strong ability to manage multiple projects, track data, analyze progress, and maintain accurate records.
• Bachelor's degree required
• A minimum of 5 years' experience in a progressively responsible grants administrative position
• Prior supervisory experience
• Demonstrates understanding and commitment to upholding the Catholic identity and values of Catholic health care, and a commitment to the Mission of Healthy Learners, the Sisters of Charity Health System, and the work of the CSA Congregation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working for a non-profit organization preferred
• Working knowledge of social media, a plus.

Responsibilities

• Contribute and lead the development of the organization's grants and partnership strategies to support programmatic and organizational goals.
• Identify and research grant opportunities and prospective funders, develop and submit strong proposals, letters of intent, and grant requests.
• Oversee the creation of detailed reports for funders, ensure financial and programmatic compliance, and manage stewardship programs to retain and strengthen donor relationships. Develop and maintain a Grants Dashboard for use by HL leadership and central office staff.
• Cultivate, maintain, and grow relationships with foundations, corporations, government agencies, and other non-profits. Network to create new funding opportunities to support the mission of Healthy Learners.
• Work with the central development office to support the supervision of the functions of the gift accounting system. Ensure that the daily activities of processing, receipting, acknowledging, depositing, and reporting of all gifts and pledges are completed accurately and with maximum efficiency.
• Work collaboratively with the Executive Director, other Healthy Learners staff, and contracted event planners to plan and execute an annual calendar of friend-raising and fundraising events from a creative and entrepreneurial perspective, with a special focus on the annual Nashville songwriter's events and other Healthy Learners-sponsored events.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Industry: Hospitals
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees