Grant Portfolio Associate

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About the Role

The Philanthropic Investment team plays an integral role in supporting the mission, vision, and impact of the Commit Partnership by cultivating, securing, and stewarding investors in the organization's work.

The Grant Portfolio Associate is an entry level role into fundraising and grant management and has the opportunity to work alongside senior grant managers and learn and grow in the role and on the team.

Critical to the success of the Philanthropic Investment Team, the Grant Portfolio Associate provides project management support to the full institutional grant portfolio. To meet this goal, the Associate will utilize existing systems and processes and develop new ones where appropriate to proactively coordinate grant deliverables and timelines. The Associate is also responsible for creating written collateral and sourcing relevant grant content and attachments to ensure efficiency in the cultivation and stewardship process.

This position will report to the Director of Institutional Philanthropic Investments and will work in close collaboration with the other Institutional Grant Managers and other Philanthropy team members to meet team and individual goals.

This is a Dallas-based position. The Commit Partnership has a hybrid work policy, with three days in-office and two optional remote workdays each week.

Expectations of the Role:

• Serve as the project manager for the entire institutional grants portfolio
• Ability to manage up and across team members to ensure execution of projects and deliverables
• Manage grant deliverables and deadlines using Monday.com
• Ensure submission of complete and accurate applications within grant deadline
• Collect and/or create where necessary content for reports and grant attachments
• Understand upcoming deadlines and deliverables and coordinate what will be needed based on the goals/proposal
• Conduct prospect research to identify, cultivate and solicit new grants and investments, provide recommendations on eligibility and alignment of opportunities with the rest of the team
• Update and maintains the grants and contracts calendar
• Work collaboratively with the team on all fundraising activities including stewardship events
• Participate in meetings, conferences, and other events for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to perform functions.

Candidate Requirements

Required Education/Professional Experience:

• Associate's Degree in English, Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or other related field.
• Administrative experience (e.g. office assistant, customer service rep, etc.), proven track record of preparing documents, filing, and gathering/reporting information
• Strong project and time management skills
• Experience and comfortability working within project management systems
• Strong writing skills
• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office, Adobe Acrobat

• Experience in fundraising preferred.
• Experience with Salesforce preferred.

Who you are:

• Relationships drive your work, and you continuously focus on starting, building, and strengthening relationships both internally with team members and across the organization, and externally with investors and partners.
• You are driven by finding ways to communicate and collaborate with investors and other team members about challenges, solutions, insights, outcomes and impact on students and systems.
• You operate with a customer service mindset to investors and team members.
• You are solutions-focused, proactive in addressing challenges, and constantly thinking one-step- ahead.
• You are constantly learning, sharing, asking questions, and keeping up with your field.
• You are meticulous about systems, processes, data, and numbers, and how those pieces connect to a big picture goal or idea.
• You lead with your individual strengths and skills and see success as a team effort.

About The Commit Partnership:

Our Mission

We believe that through our actions, Dallas County - which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation- can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. That's why our true north goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will be provided the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand jobs, maximizing the cumulative impact from early education all the way to college, career, and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared future roadmap - analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community's capacity to serve every student more effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012, this partnership is the nation's largest educational collective impact organization, composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared future roadmap - analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community's capacity to serve every student more effectively.

Together, we work to advocate for excellent and equitable public education that ensures all students - regardless of race, place, or socio-economic status - have the power to determine their future and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early Matters Dallas, North Texas Tutoring Corps, Dallas County Promise, Texas College Bridge, Dallas Thrives, Commit's Policy Team, the Texas Impact Network, and several coalitions.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact : You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.

Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you're able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.

Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.

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