Government Grants Manager

Build Inc•Chicago, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

BUILD, Inc. is seeking a committed, self-motivated, and innovative individual to join their team as a Government Grants Manager. BUILD is a nationally respected gang intervention, violence prevention, and youth development organization based on Chicago’s West Side, dedicated to saving lives and mentoring young people in challenged neighborhoods. The organization has experienced significant growth, with grant awards being a key catalyst. This role will oversee the agency's government grant portfolio, including prospecting, submission, tracking, and management, in collaboration with various internal teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
Minimum 1-2 years of experience working with grants and institutional funding
Highly organized with excellent time management skills
Operate professionally with a flexible time schedule, which can include the occasional evening or weekend texts/emails, when deadlines require off-hours coordination with program staff
Exceptional written and verbal communication, and strong interpersonal skills
Must successfully pass a background check

Nice To Haves

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to persuasively articulate BUILD’s mission and programs to various constituents.
Strong interpersonal skills, including an engaging style that can cultivate collaborative relationships with funders, staff, and program participants.
Detail-oriented with strong time and project management skills, especially the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously.
Content knowledge in youth services, violence prevention, education, and/or community health and wellness fields and a passion for BUILD’s mission.
Proficiency in data and social sciences research strongly preferred.
Proactively solve problems and seek ways to improve existing processes and portfolios.
Have an open mind, deep patience, flexibility, a sense of humor, and willingness to think outside the box.
Specific knowledge or experience with Microsoft Office, with experience with donor database software preferred, as is experience with online government grant portals and templates.
Comfortable maintaining professional and respectful relationships with all BUILD constituents demonstrating sensitivity to all ethnic, racial and economic backgrounds.
Passionate about justice work, and strive to exemplify BUILD’s core values of innovation, passion, persistence and empathy—while empowering youth and community.

Responsibilities

Managing all deadlines in the public grants calendar, and ensuring all parties in various departments adhere to timelines
Writing grant narratives and assembling required documents for proposals, including working with program teams for grant program details, finance team to assemble grant program budgets, and Impact team to obtain applicable outcome objectives/prior outcome data as needed
Reviewing all proposals before final submission to ensure compliance, quality, and accuracy
Handling logistics of submitting applications via mail or online, on time
Engaging in ongoing prospecting for public grant opportunities and presenting potential opportunities to program leadership at weekly Program-Development meeting
Attending required information sessions on major grant RFP’s
Providing overview of newly awarded public grants to program Directors
Responding to funder requests for information
Maintaining databases tracking public grants against fiscal year budget and that sharing essential grant information with finance team
Assisting with the annual organizational budgeting process, including forecasting government grant revenue based on knowledge of current grant amounts, grant periods, and potential renewal deadlines
Working with finance team to prepare for government funding agency site visits, required documents