Funding Development Role

Tulsa Service Year•Tulsa, OK

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Tulsa Service Year (TSY) team is seeking a Funding Development Role to build and execute a plan to secure funding for expanding service-year roles across Tulsa. This role involves braiding multiple public and philanthropic funding streams, including AmeriCorps, WIOA, TSET, opioid abatement dollars, Medicaid, K-12 federal education funds, and corporate tax credits. The responsibilities include tracking application cycles, building relationships with relevant agencies and boards, drafting applications, and maintaining a braided-funding model. This is a backbone function that supports funding strategy across partner organizations without directly delivering service.

Requirements

Background in public-sector grants, workforce development, or foundation grantmaking, ideally with direct experience inside a Workforce Development Board, state agency, or foundation grants team.
Comfortable moving between relationship-building, regulatory research, and technical grant-writing.
Able to work independently against a tracked calendar of deadlines with minimal day-to-day supervision.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with AmeriCorps funding structures and/or Oklahoma's state and local funding landscape.

Responsibilities

Maintain a live calendar of application windows across all identified funding streams, including WIOA Title I RFPs, TSET Legacy Grants, Opioid Abatement Board cycles, and Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO) registration.
Flag time-sensitive opportunities with enough lead time to act.
Maintain a standing list of funding streams under exploration, with status and next action for each.
Build relationships with Green Country Workforce and the incumbent WIOA Title I provider, Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board, Oklahoma Tax Commission, OMES and other state offices, and Oklahoma AmeriCorps and Red River Community Corps.
Draft and package applications as funding cycles open.
Maintain the funding-streams section of a larger grant application to a national philanthropic funder.
Prepare funder-ready one-pagers on individual funding streams as needed.
Maintain a model showing which funding source covers which cost category per service-year role, including stipend, coaching, and overhead.
Build a source-by-source plan for the $300,000 (20 percent) match required by the Service United Fund's $1.5 million application, with real dollar amounts against real sources.
Update the model as funding streams are confirmed or terms change.
Keep the model legible to funders, showing how their dollars fit alongside others'.
Track regulatory questions affecting funding eligibility.
Monitor developments that could open new funding sources.
Flag developments that need a policy conversation rather than an application.