Project Manager: Grants & Community Engagement

Project Manager: Grants & Community Engagement

Reports to: Development Manager  

Full time: 37-40 hours a week

$77,000 to $81,000

Work hour expectations: work events outside of office hours; reply and correspond outside of office hours to client and management needs via email, Slack, and text.

Key Responsibilities: Client

• Manages a minimum of 3-4 client accounts
• Work directly with development coordinators, grant officer and grant writers to develop grant calendars, grants and reports
• Plan and strategize with client and JMA mgrs. to achieve revenue goals
• Identify likely funding sources for (assigned) clients, and call foundation or government program representatives when needed
• Identify grant arguments for each funder and assign to grant writers based on conversations and prior approval of client or director and/or president
• Initiate work with client to provide reporting, calendaring and other evaluation/compliance related tasks
• Ensure grants reports are done on deadline
• Attend meetings, events, and other related activities
• Work to develop relationships with client’s staff through e-mail, calls, and outreach meetings
• Manage client budgets and provide outreach when opportunities go over spend
• Works directly with clients and funders/donors

Key Responsibilities: Grants

• Work with grant writers and client for input and edits on grants
• Create and review budgets and make recommendations for grant alignment with funders’ priorities. Responsible for attaining the most current and approved budget (and financial attachments) to be sent with any grant
• Compile, write and edit LOIs grant applications, letters and queries exhibiting strong expository writing skills and a high-level command of grammar and spelling. Responsible for editing all work before passed on for final edits, approval
• Develop individual grant proposals in accordance with each grant-making organization’s preferences and follow exactly each funders guidelines, ensure proper and thorough research has been completed
• Develop and exhibit understanding of who grant funders are, and what they fund in MN 
• Develop relationships with funders
• Stays current and involved with institutional and corporate program officers
• Ensure that JMA staff maintains contact with funders
• Manage the process of providing progress reports when required (as assigned)

Key Responsibilities: Community Engagement  

Implement an annual work plan to achieve individual-giving goals, including:

• Write and execute corporate engagement and development plans
• Provide engagement strategies for increased revenue
• New and existing donor engagement strategies to increase funding from current and lapsed donors, with a keen focus on moves management
• Build relationships with corporate and institutional donors
• Build and manage relationships with all types of donors through personalized cultivation and outreach efforts including in-person meetings, event invitations, and regular communication and acquisition/stewardship efforts.
• Identify and create cultivation strategies for top prospects; implement these strategies in conjunction with the client’s President/Executive Director, Advancement Director, Board of Directors.

Experience/Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience working with nonprofit organization(s); grant writing/fundraising experience preferred
• Demonstrated understanding of Fund Development and Communications
• Demonstrated knowledge of regional and national institutional giving and public sector RFPs, submission process with a special focus on state and federal government agencies
• Contacts or knowledge of area program officers and grant makers
• Defined specialties grant writing – for example: youth development; education; mental health; nutrition
• Background in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or similar degree desired
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
• Proven organizational skills including the ability to maintain data management systems, prioritize projects, meet multiple deadlines and work with teams 
• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite with a working knowledge of web content management systems, design software, donor tracking interfaces and digital marketing tools

Benefits

• Bonuses are awarded to staff based on extraordinary work output, bringing in new clients and a recommendation from a manager. Additionally, awards of more ESST/PTO are/can be given in addition to or instead of a cash bonus.
• Overtime: (over 40 hours per week) paid at a rate of time and a half.
• Employee Safe and Sick Time (ESST) & Paid Time Off (PTO) – ESST/PTO will begin accruing upon hire. All employees will earn ESST/PTO at a rate of 0.0909 per hour worked. This equates to earning 1 hour of ESST/PTO for every 11 hours worked. Employees may choose to use their ESST/PTO award for mental or physical illness, treatment or preventative care; a family member’s mental or physical illness, treatment or preventative care; absence due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking of the employee or a family member; death in an employee’s immediate family; closure of the employee’s workplace due to weather or public emergency or closure of a family member’s school or care facility due to weather or public emergency; when determined by a health authority or health care professional that the employee or a family member is at risk of infecting others with a communicable disease; vacation days; and holidays.
• IRA participation (JMA contributes 3% if employee participates)
• Life Insurance and LTD – at no cost to employee
• Healthcare plan reimbursement is available to employees who are not covered under another(s) healthcare plan and are required to purchase an individual or family plan (being covered on a significant other or parents plan does not qualify). Healthcare reimbursement in the amount of $250.00 per month for an individual plan is available if you are the “primary” on your plan ($250 per month = $3,000.00 per year for insurance). Healthcare in the amount of $500.00 per month for a family plan is available if you are the “primary” on your family plan ($500 per month = $6,000 per year for insurance).