Director of Grant Management

Austin Habitat for Humanity•Austin, TX

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Grant Management leads Austin Habitat for Humanity’s grant strategy and ensures it aligns with the organization’s mission and strategic priorities. The role oversees the full grant lifecycle, including researching opportunities, cultivating funder relationships, writing and submitting proposals, managing budgets and restricted funds, ensuring compliance, reporting, and grant close-out. The Director is the primary liaison with grant-making entities and is accountable for the Grants function, grant pipeline, and related metrics within the organization’s Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). The role maintains documented processes and works closely with the Leadership Team to support organizational goals while exemplifying Austin Habitat’s Core Values. This is an on-site position based at Austin Habitat’s corporate offices in Austin, Texas. The employee primarily works at headquarters four days a week and off-site one day a week. The position is at-will, with terms and benefits outlined in the employee manual.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in public administration, business administration, finance, accounting, nonprofit management, or a related field.
At least seven years of experience in grant writing and management, with demonstrated success securing grants of $100,000 or more.
Experience managing multi-million-dollar grant portfolios across federal, state, local, or private foundation funding streams.
Proficiency with compliance and reporting requirements and with creating government and private grant budgets, including budget forecasting, internal controls, expenditure tracking, and audit readiness.
Excellent strategic planning, budgeting, and organizational skills.
Competence with word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.
Experience with Microsoft 365, a CRM, grant databases and directories, and Adobe Acrobat.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in public administration, business administration, finance, accounting, nonprofit management, or a related field.
Experience with affordable housing or community development grants, especially federal funds.
A track record of grant awards of $500,000 or more.
Experience using prospect research tools within a donor CRM and/or databases such as Candid/Foundation Directory.
Advanced knowledge of 2 CFR Part 200 (Uniform Guidance), including federal awards, cost principles, and single audit requirements.
Familiarity with federal and state compliance requirements for affordable housing and construction grants, including Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements, Build America, Buy America (BABA) domestic sourcing rules, and Texas Grant Management Standards (TxGMS).
Certified Grants Management Specialist (CGMS), Grant Professional Certified (CPC), and/or Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM) credentials.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement a comprehensive grants strategy and annual calendar of deadlines, reports, and renewals aligned with organizational goals.
Research and identify grant opportunities from federal, state, local, corporate, bank, and foundation sources.
Cultivate and manage grant relationships, including arranging site visits and individual meetings, providing impact updates, and planning for renewals.
Prepare and submit high-quality grant proposals and applications, coordinating with internal teams to gather outcomes, construction data, and demographics and with Major Gifts to avoid overlapping requests.
Oversee grant compliance, reporting, audit readiness, project and staff-position budgets, and restricted-fund tracking in collaboration with Finance.
Maintain a comprehensive grant tracking system, primarily through the Development CRM, and own the grants pipeline and related metrics.
Use technology, including AI tools, to improve grant research, writing, and reporting in accordance with data privacy policies and funder guidelines.
Develop funders in the five counties where Austin Habitat builds.
Turn program data into compelling narratives and collaborate with program teams to ensure accurate performance measures and reporting.
Serve as compliance reporting liaison for Habitat for Humanity International.
Act as the key contact for foundation and other funder representatives and represent Austin Habitat at funder and stakeholder meetings and conferences.
Work with the Chief Development Officer and CFO on annual grants budget planning and cash flow strategies.
Provide monthly progress reports to leadership.
Collaborate with the supervisor on departmental oversight and organizational strategic goals.
Act as a role model within and outside the agency, demonstrating self-motivation, flexibility, efficient time management, and a positive, respectful attitude.
Perform other duties as assigned.