Manager, Sport Grants & Projects

Position: Manager, Sport Grants & Projects

Reports to: Director, Sport Operations

Department: Sports & Competition

Location: Washington, DC HQ, North Carolina Office (SONA), Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Range for US Based Staff: $55,463 - $65,250

Organization Overview:

Founded in 1968, Special Olympics is a global movement to end discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities. We foster acceptance of all people through the power of sport and programming in education, health, and leadership. With nearly four million athletes and Unified Sports® partners and one million coaches and volunteers in more than 170 countries, Special Olympics delivers more than 30 Olympic-type sports and nearly 50,000 games and competitions every year. Learn more at SpecialOlympics.org. 

Position Overview:

This position plays a critical role in the successful delivery responsibility for coordinating the management of all Sports grants, as well as oversight of the sport project plans including various operationalizations Sport Resources information, documents, and databases.

Responsibilities:

• Sport Grants Management

• • Supervise Sports grants program and ensure implementation per program objectives and design while managing timelines and deliverables
  • Support entire grant making process; including review of proposals, the selection process, review of grantee financial documents and program reports, monitoring metrics, and close out of grants
  • Participate in Grant Site visits and remote evaluation processes
  • Ensure that requirements per corporate and donor rules and regulations are properly followed
  • Track all the finances for grants, ensuring funds are spent and reported on in required timeframes
  • Generate reports to evaluate activity and available funds
  • Manage fiscal reports, accounts receivables and financial reporting deadlines
  • Collaborate with Development, Regions and external partners on proposals & reporting
  • Responsible for collating, writing and distributing annual State of Sport Grants report
• Project Management & Programmatic Work
  • Sport department project management
    • Support five programmatic area inputs
    • Oversight of Sport projects dashboard tracking and accountability
    • Ensuring PM designs & schedule deadlines are met in line with organization policies
  • Sport Resource updates
    • Dashboard development & management
    • Analyze sport data in alignment with projects & grants to support decision making processes
  • Administrative Support
    • Support with Sport department finance management including invoices and expense reimbursements
    • Track reoccurring department deadlines such as annual planning and reporting documents including division goals and targets
      • Assist in the preparation of monthly departmental and project
    • Assist with other special projects (as requested)
    • Some US and International travel required

Required Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience plus three to five years of relevant work experience. Experience and/or coursework in the area of Sport or Recreation Management, Finance, Business or Accounting administration or equivalent work is a plus.

• Experience in handling grants management software packages, preferably with Smart Simple online Grants management systems.
• Demonstrated capacity to reconcile monthly financial reports and identify
• Demonstrated ability to make administrative/procedural decisions and
• Strong organizational skills and high level of attention to
• Ability to work as a team player and manage multiple projects and priorities
• Proficiency with Microsoft office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Strong oral and written communication

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in developing and producing grants/ sub-grants and other proposals, budgets
• Experience working in a multi-cultural setting
• Experience working with people with Intellectual Disabilities and/or other disability populations
• PMP certification a plus

Knowledge of data analytic tools such as MS Power BI, or Tableau

*For USA based staff: Special Olympics offers full-time employees a generous and comprehensive benefits package, which includes: medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life insurance, disability, retirement, legal resources, and PTO. 

Special Olympics provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

**Special Olympics is an E-Verify Employer** 

Salary : $55,463 - $65,250