About This Role
This role involves leading and developing compliance initiatives for public and private funding within a divisional headquarters. The Director works with various internal teams to ensure adherence to contract and regulatory standards, focusing on grants and program quality. This position suits a passionate, experienced team player who is excited to create a roadmap for program quality and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Provide oversight for contract and regulatory compliance and adherence to Salvation Army standards, assisting with social services reviews, program audits, and licensing audits across the division
- Collaborate on the submission of documents and reports through the contract database for legal review and signature
- Assist with the development of outcome measurements, objectives, and program impact that meet funding resources and quality assurance goals
- Be responsible for data management training for staff, data mining, collection, and reporting/report development within the data management systems
- Work with Development, Social Services, Finance, HR, and individual corps to prepare and submit required reports to funders as needed
- Act as the lead with the DHQ finance department to ensure award agreements are executed for programming and accounting processing of awards
- Assist in the development and management of a division-wide research, recording, tracking, and reporting system to increase funding resources and grant compliance
- Collaborate with the social service department and Corps leadership to develop and execute program service models that are attached to funding sources
- Monitor federal, state, and local public funding websites and other sources for RFP announcements
- Work in coordination with DHQ Development on large foundation grant applications
- Prepare internal and external communications, including presentations, reports, and business correspondence, in relation to grant/contract compliance and monitoring as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor
- Five years of experience in program development, grant writing, corporate relations, and/or development; not-for-profit experience a plus
- Prior experience working in the field of workforce development/employment training
- Effective interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills
- Demonstrated ability to set and achieve or exceed goals and meet deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to work independently in a complex environment, managing multiple projects and conflicting priorities
- Demonstrated experience with community-based program planning and implementation in the areas of workforce development and working with populations impacted by concentrated poverty
- Demonstrated strategic planning, project management, and communication skills
