Grant Manager

Job Description

Residency Requirements: All candidates must reside in West Virginia

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:   Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Researches the availability of grants that could be available to the school
• Communicates with school leadership regarding potential grants for the school prior to requesting the grant and throughout the grant request process
• Writes and edits grant requests
• Prepares applications, budgets, and reports
• Produces and delivers the final response
• Coordinates and manages efforts among all departments such as legal, finance, and school leadership regarding the grant request process and progress
• Identifies trends and tracks performance from grant submissions, win rates, and obtaining feedback from customers
• Maintains calendar with all pertinent grant related deadlines to ensure grant progress and works with school staff to implement grant funding strategies
• Tracks, monitors, and helps facilitate all grant purchases and staffing, to ensure grant compliance and utilization
• Ensures deliverables and grant program application are implemented and satisfactorily achieved while maintaining accurate supporting documentation
• Develops sustainable process to improve efficiency and enables quality and timely responses such as developing templates for future grants
• Maintains strong communication regarding grant request status with School Leaders

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:   

• Bachelor’s degree in Writing or related field AND
• Three (3) year of relevant experience writing contracts or grant proposals OR
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIOS: 

• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage complex projects across a wide variety of functions and levels of management and meet deadlines
• To work independently and manage the participation of others
• strong attention to detail
• Proficiency in MS Excel, MS Word, and Outlook
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to clear required background check
• Ability to travel 10% of the time

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:  

• Experience as grant writer
• Demonstrated success in attaining grants
• Understanding of the structure and internal functions of educational entities
• Previous experience in school administration

WORK EVVIRONMENT:  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This is a home-based position

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.  All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works.  It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer. 

Job Type

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works.  It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

Stride, Inc. is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)