Grants & Contracts Manager

HR Strategy Group•Baltimore, MD

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

South Baltimore Gateway Partnership (SGBP) is seeking a Grants & Contracts Manager to support its rapidly growing Restoration Program in South Baltimore. This mission-driven role focuses on environmental restoration and justice, specifically shoreline restoration and nature-based resiliency projects in urban areas. The Restoration Program manages over $80 million in investments to restore the Middle Branch shoreline, improve water quality, enhance resilience, and expand public access. The Grants & Contracts Manager will serve as the administrative and compliance backbone for this program, ensuring grants, contracts, procurement, and related agreements are managed effectively. This position requires independent judgment, system establishment, risk flagging, cross-partner coordination, and driving administrative processes to completion with minimal supervision. The ideal candidate is a creative, polished, collaborative, organized, and motivated grants and contracts management professional passionate about South Baltimore and environmental restoration. This is a hybrid position requiring some in-office attendance for meetings.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant experience in grants, contracts, compliance, procurement, public administration, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience administering grants and contracts, preferably involving government or other public funding.
Comfort working with budgets, reimbursement documentation, match requirements, and other financial information associated with grant and contract administration.
Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail, with an ability to manage multiple deadlines, requirements, and processes simultaneously.
Strong judgment and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify compliance questions or risks and determine when additional guidance is needed.
Strong written communication skills.
Comfort interpreting agreements, policies, regulations, and other administrative requirements.
Highly process-oriented; enjoys translating complicated requirements into clear workflows, trackers, checklists, and assignments.
Mission-driven, with a genuine interest in environmental restoration and in helping deliver projects that strengthen communities and the South Baltimore waterfront.
Demonstrated project management experience.
Software proficiency including: Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Google Suite (Calendar, Docs, Maps, etc.).
Customer Relationship Management System (Salesforce).
DocuSign.
Adobe Acrobat Pro.
Asana.
Video Conferencing to conduct meetings and events via Teams, Zoom, or other video conferencing technology.

Nice To Haves

Experience in public procurement.
Experience with Baltimore M/WBE or state DBE compliance.
Experience with capital projects.
Experience with reimbursement-based grants.
Experience with government contracting.

Responsibilities

Reviews prospective funding agreements to identify compliance, procurement, reporting, match, or other administrative requirements and potential issues.
Leads post-award grant administration and compliance for external funding, translating agreements into actionable requirements, deadlines, and internal assignments.
Coordinates funder contracting and grant administration, including agreements, amendments, reporting, reimbursement requests, documentation, deliverable tracking, and closeout.
Leads or coordinates Restoration Program procurement and vendor contracting, managing the process from procurement through execution and record maintenance.
Coordinates Baltimore City Minority- and Women-Business Enterprise (M/WBE), state Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), and other contracting compliance, including outreach, participation documentation, approvals, monitoring, and reporting.
Manages the administrative process for property access and site-control agreements.
Develops and maintains program-wide compliance systems to track award periods, budgets, milestones, match requirements, procurement conditions, reporting deadlines, contractual obligations, and vendor deliverables.
Serves as the Restoration Program's primary liaison with the SBGP Operations team on grants, contracts, procurement, reimbursements, and compliance.
Works with the Restoration team to collect technical and programmatic information for funder reporting.
Proactively identifies upcoming requirements, potential compliance issues, administrative bottlenecks, and missing documentation and drives them toward resolution.
Develops repeatable workflows, trackers, templates, checklists, and recordkeeping practices for systematic and transparent grant and contract administration.
Works with the Restoration Director to establish program-wide systems for grant compliance, procurement, and vendor contract tracking.
Works with the Restoration Managers to integrate funding and contracting requirements into project delivery and ensures timely completion of compliance obligations.
Works with the Communications and Outreach team on funder-required communications and acknowledgments.
Works closely with the Operations team and the Business System Administrator on organizational contracting, procurement, financial administration, and compliance processes.