About This Role
Managing external County grants is the core of this role, from planning and implementation to reporting, compliance, and closeout. The Grants Manager coordinates with various stakeholders, supports grant and contract preparation, monitors budgets and performance, and ensures compliance with funding requirements and County goals.
Responsibilities
- Manage assigned external County grants through planning, implementation, reporting, compliance, and closeout
- Coordinate with departments, funders, partners, and County stakeholders
- Support grant and contract preparation
- Monitor budgets and performance
- Ensure outcomes and compliance with funding requirements, state/federal standards, and County standards and goals
- Manage an assigned grant portfolio
- Communicate with funders
- Coordinate applications, agreements, reports, and supporting documentation
- Monitor budgets, performance measures, and deliverables
- Provide grant-management, contract-management, and quality-assurance support
- Analyze data
- Prepare reports and presentations
- Identify and address compliance or implementation issues
- Provide support in the planning, development, and implementation of grant objectives and the evaluation of projects, initiatives, and programs to include the collection and monitoring of performance measures
- May lead community engagement and outreach strategies to include collecting and gathering community feedback and disseminating information on the systems and programs
- Serve as a primary contact and manage communication with the grant funder regarding programmatic and fiscal reporting, training, and technical assistance
- Provide logistical and staff support to grant initiatives, projects, and programs to include a combination of grant management, contract management, and program quality assurance and compliance
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships in a variety of settings, working with all levels of the program
- Administer grant and contract preparation and submission among requesting County departments and ensure compliance
- Assist with budget development and monitoring, as well as fiscal and outcomes/performance management for system priorities, programs and services
- May develop and format publications and materials about grant strategies and initiatives, including information for public facing website
- Collect and analyze data/information relevant to the program and/or grant, prepare documents and reports for specified planning and evaluation projects and present oral and written analysis of data
- Design, develop, and prepare documents, reports, and presentations regarding the program portfolio to a variety of audiences
