Director of Grants and Contracts

Job Description

Job Description

About Glide

GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through its integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, GLIDE empowers individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and to thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.

Position Summary :

The Director of Grants and Contracts provides strategic leadership and oversight of the organization's government contracts, grants, and restricted funding portfolio. This position is responsible for ensuring compliance with all federal, state, local, and private funding requirements while maximizing reimbursement, minimizing organizational risk, and supporting program success. 

The position involves driving important insights with senior leaders and requires strong management skills. They will mentor and manage contract team to provide top notch Programs and Development partnership. The ideal candidate will have a deep background in financial and general business analysis and demonstrate experience managing teams and collaborating with various functions. 

Essential Duties and Operational Responsibilities

Strategic Advice and Partnership 

• Develop and implement the organization's contracts and grants administration strategy.  
• Establish policies, procedures, and internal controls governing contract and grant management.  
• Provide leadership on compliance with federal Uniform Guidance, state regulations, City and County contracting requirements, and private foundation requirements.  
• Advise executive leadership regarding contractual risk, compliance issues, and operational impacts.  
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to streamline contract administration, billing, reporting, and compliance processes.  
• Build collaborative partnerships across Programs, Development, Finance, Accounting, and Executive Leadership to ensure successful funding implementation.  
• Translate complex funding requirements into practical operational guidance.  
• Serve as the organization's subject matter expert on grants and contract administration. 

Contract Administration 

• Oversee the financial administration of all government contracts and grant agreements from award through closeout.  
• Develop strategies to maximize contract reimbursement and recoverable revenue while ensuring compliance with funding requirements.  
• Identify opportunities to improve revenue capture through contract amendments, budget modifications, and funding reallocations.  
• Partner with program leadership to optimize utilization of awarded funding.  
• In collaboration with program teams, monitor contract performance, deliverables, budgets, amendments, and renewal timelines.  
• Maintain centralized contract records and document management systems.  
• Coordinate subcontract agreements and monitor subrecipient compliance.  
• Develop monitoring systems for contract compliance and conduct periodic internal control reviews. 
• Ensure required supporting documentation is maintained for all expenditures.  Monitor regulatory changes affecting funding.  

Audit and Financial Management 

• Oversee preparation and monitoring of contract and grant budgets.  
• Ensure accurate billing, reimbursement requests, and revenue recognition.  
• Monitor spending against awarded budgets and identify potential funding risks.  
• Work closely with accounting team on month-end and year-end reporting.  
• Oversee indirect cost calculations, cost allocations, and allowable cost determinations.  
• Serve as the primary Finance lead for contract and grant related audits, monitoring visits, and funder reviews.  
• Coordinate responses to federal, state, city, and private funder audit requests.  
• Develop and monitor corrective action plans related to grant compliance findings.  
• Develop multi-year revenue forecasts for government contracts and grants.  
• Monitor funding trends and expiration timelines to identify future financial risks and opportunities. 
• Provide executive leadership with regular forecasting and portfolio analysis.

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in relevant field and 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in nonprofit grants management, government contracts, finance, or accounting.  
• Minimum 5 years leading and supervising grants and contracts teams. 
• Experience managing a complex portfolio of federal, state, county, city, and foundation funding.  
• Experience supporting organizations with annual operating budgets exceeding $25 million preferred.  
• Experience launching and leading strategic initiatives at a multi-service agency.
• Experience working in a community-based social service agency with adults and families in relationship to homelessness and poverty and the problems that often come alongside these experiences.
• Federal Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200).
• Single Audit requirements.
• GAAP
• Cost allocation methodologies.
• Indirect cost rate calculations.
• Government reimbursement methodologies.
• Restricted fund accounting.
• Contract lifecycle management. 

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work on a computer and see details of objects at close range.  
• Ability to hear within normal range, and communicate effectively (in person, telephone or Zoom).  
• Finger dexterity and the ability to use all standard office equipment.  
• Sit or stand comfortably; and the ability to navigate throughout office spaces (via elevator or stairs).

This is a fulltime (40 hours/week), Exempt position.

Work Environment

GLIDE’s buildings are located in the Tenderloin neighborhood.  GLIDE maintains an "open door" policy to the community and its clients, who frequently enter and leave the building.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.