Grants Manager

Youth First, Inc.•Evansville, IN

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Grants Manager is responsible for managing sustainability efforts involving competitive grant awards in order to secure financial resources for Youth First and to ensure compliance with award agreements and grants management best practices. This position is eligible for consideration of a remote work agreement (up to 2 days per week) once the employee has demonstrated the ability to perform essential job functions independently and satisfactorily.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree preferred.
At least 2 years of grant writing experience.
Management of grants experience preferred.
Superior writing and editing skills as shown in writing samples or published work.
Detail oriented with close attention to accuracy in narrative prose, project budgets, and behavioral health data.
Strong project management skills.
Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of personal styles and work across functional areas to further agency goals and objectives.
High-level computer literacy and proficiency with online research, web-based grant applications and the MS Office suite of software applications.
Requires travel as needed to business meetings within Youth First footprint.

Nice To Haves

Experience using Salesforce software a plus.
Knowledge of basic fundraising strategies a plus.
Ability to maintain composure, productivity, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Knowledge of Indiana donor market and Youth First is a plus.

Responsibilities

Develop, write, assemble, and submit compelling grant requests, including letters of intent, proposals, budgets, timelines, logic models, reports, and slide deck presentations to foundations, corporations, and other grant-making entities.
Collaborate with other Grant Manager(s) in planning, implementing, and evaluating the agency's overall grants pipeline through monthly strategy meetings and regular reports to ensure Youth First has an appropriate pool of funders to achieve short and long-term fundraising goals.
Collaborate with all agency teams (development, program, and operations) to assemble and translate information needed to fulfill grant submission and award requirements such as programmatic reporting metrics, evaluations, testimonials, and budgets.
Meet grant submission and report deadlines according to the instructions and expectations of each grant-maker.
Research and identify grant opportunities; equip and support other agency fundraisers to successfully prospect new grants.
Capture the agency's history, mission, model, activities, values, and vision in memorable language that aligns with or improves on existing narrative. Invite and edit a continuous stream of new testimonials in accordance with fundraising best practices and mental health professional protocols.
Manage a continually shifting stream of research, data, and other information to make the case for funding Youth First, including healthy youth development and risky behaviors, mental health, substance abuse, evidence-based prevention, social services, education, and workforce development.
Stay abreast of developments within the foundation, corporate, and government sectors to provide support, advice, and guidance regarding funding opportunities, terminology, and trends.
Support the writing of other agency publications and communications.
Maintain the Youth First narrative bank and quotes/stories bank.
Manage agency compliance regarding grant agreements, including document storage and retrieval, signatures, expenditure reporting, etc.
Establish and maintain professional relationships with foundation contacts and program officers and, if needed, represent and articulate agency positions regarding services, evaluation methods and outcomes, sustainability, etc.
Collaborate with Database Coordinator, Communications Manager, Finance and other staff to ensure prompt acknowledgement and appropriate recognition of awarded grants.
Manage the utilization of contracted grant writers as needed for special projects.
Attend Youth First staff meetings as directed.