Grants Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Grants Manager based in United States.

This is a key finance and operations role responsible for managing the post-award lifecycle of a diverse grants and contracts portfolio.
You will bring structure, visibility, and accountability to federal, state, foundation, corporate, and partner-funded awards.
The role combines financial oversight, compliance, reporting, subgrant administration, and cross-functional collaboration.
You will work closely with Finance, Programs, Advancement, and organizational leadership to ensure funding requirements are understood and consistently met.
A strong focus on risk management will be essential, from monitoring budgets and deliverables to identifying compliance concerns and escalating issues early.
You will also strengthen grants-management systems, dashboards, controls, and processes to improve organizational efficiency and transparency.
This is an opportunity to make a meaningful operational impact within a mission-driven environment while supporting sound financial and programmatic decision-making.

Accountabilities

• Manage post-award administration for federal, state, private foundation, corporate, and other grants and contracts throughout their full lifecycle.
• Maintain a comprehensive and accurate portfolio of active grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and subgrants, including key terms, deadlines, deliverables, and compliance requirements.
• Review executed agreements and coordinate structured handoffs among Finance, Programs, Advancement, and other relevant teams.
• Coordinate amendments, budget modifications, no-cost extensions, renewals, and closeouts while maintaining complete documentation and audit trails.
• Partner with Finance, revenue, and program leaders to review grant performance and financial activity at least monthly, monitoring budgets, spending, commitments, staffing allocations, and remaining balances.
• Analyze budget-to-actual performance, identify significant variances or financial risks, and support corrective actions where needed.
• Prepare and coordinate financial reports, invoices, reimbursement requests, funder submissions, and other required grant documentation.
• Support revenue recognition, forecasting, cash-flow planning, reconciliations, and financial reporting to ensure grant-related transactions are accurately recorded.
• Support annual audits, Single Audits, funder audits, NICRA calculations, and other grant monitoring or compliance reviews.
• Administer subgrants, subawards, and partner agreements, ensuring agreements are properly developed, approved, executed, and documented before work or payments begin.
• Maintain centralized subgrant tracking covering partner information, prime awards, agreement terms, deliverables, reporting requirements, payment schedules, budgets, and compliance obligations.
• Monitor subrecipient performance and expenditures against approved budgets and contractual deliverables, including risk assessment for federally funded awards.
• Develop and maintain organization-wide dashboards, trackers, and reporting tools covering financial performance, deliverables, deadlines, renewals, and award expirations.
• Provide regular portfolio reporting to the Director of Accounting and Finance and periodic executive-level reporting to senior leadership.
• Proactively identify and escalate financial, compliance, contractual, and programmatic risks, including missed deliverables, unsupported expenditures, budget variances, and subrecipient concerns.
• Maintain working knowledge of applicable grant requirements and contribute to the development of policies, procedures, internal controls, and standard operating practices.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen controls, reduce risk, improve visibility, and make grants-management processes more efficient.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of progressively responsible experience in grants management, grants administration, sponsored programs, nonprofit finance, contracts management, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience administering and monitoring federal, state, and private grants and contracts, including budgeting, financial reporting, compliance, deliverable tracking, amendments, renewals, and closeout.
• Hands-on experience administering and monitoring subgrants, subawards, subrecipients, and partner agreements.
• Working knowledge of federal grant requirements, including 2 CFR Part 200 and applicable subrecipient monitoring standards.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities, with experience reviewing grant budgets, expenditures, forecasts, reconciliations, and budget-to-actual performance.
• Experience preparing or coordinating funder reports, invoices, reimbursement requests, and other required grant submissions.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain grants-management dashboards, trackers, calendars, and reporting tools.
• Strong project-management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple awards, deadlines, reporting requirements, contracts, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate and appropriately escalate financial, contractual, compliance, and programmatic risks.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Public Administration, Nonprofit Management, or a related field is preferred; candidates with substantial directly relevant experience may also be considered.
• MBA and/or CPA designation is a plus.
• Experience supporting federal audits, Single Audits, funder monitoring reviews, or similar compliance activities is preferred.
• Experience working within nonprofit or mission-driven organizations with multiple funding sources is advantageous.
• Familiarity with Salesforce, NetSuite, or comparable CRM, grants-management, and financial systems is preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience developing dashboards and management reports are a plus.
• Supervisory experience is preferred, with potential for future people-management responsibilities as the portfolio and team grow.

Benefits

• Salary range of $90,000-$115,000 for a full-time schedule.
• Compensation determined based on role scope, relevant experience, skills, geographic considerations, and internal equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Retirement savings benefits.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Paid family and medical leave.
• Wellness benefits and additional employee programs.
• Fully remote, office-based work environment.
• Occasional travel may be required based on organizational needs.
• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

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