Grants Manager

Job Title: Grants Manager

Salary: $70K-$85K DOE

Location: Tustin

Openings: 1

Position Purpose: Grant Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing all aspects of grant funding at Families Together of Orange County (FTOC). This role ensures the organization’s financial sustainability by identifying, evaluating, and securing grant opportunities that align with FTOC’s mission and strategic priorities. The Grant Manager will proactively research and assess available funding sources, prepare and submit compelling grant proposals, and maintain accurate records of awarded grants. This position will collaborate closely with internal departments and leadership to monitor compliance, ensure ethical allocation of funds, and verify that all grant activities adhere to organizational policies, industry standards, and applicable regulatory requirements. Additionally, the Grants Manager will track reporting deadlines, maintain thorough documentation, and continuously evaluate the organization’s grant management processes to ensure efficiency, accountability, and transparency in the use of all grant-related resources.

Core Duties and responsibilities, include but are not limited to:

• Research and identify prospective funders – including Foundations, Local, State & Federal grant opportunities – to support current and prospective programs and identified areas of financial growth.
• Determine proposal concept by identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs, studying requests for proposal (RFPs), and attending strategy meetings
• Develop proposals by assembling information, including project nature, objectives/outcomes/deliverables, implementation, methods, timetable, staffing, budget, standards of performance, and evaluation
• Prepare proposals by determining concepts, gathering and formatting information, writing drafts, and obtaining approvals
• Present perspective grants to the executive team.
• Meet proposal deadline by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, approval, and transmittal
• Be primary grants writer, revise, and edit drafts, including Letters of Interest (LOI), executive summaries, conclusions, and organization credentials
• Coordinate requirements with funders and contribute proposal status information for internal review meetings
• Maintain grants database to ensure accurate information about funders, giving history, areas of interest, progress on work plans, and on-time delivery of all materials needed through the entire grant cycle
• Maintain electronic filing systems, making sure they are accurate, timely, and facilitating easy retrieval of information
• Track, write, and submit all grant-funded program reports with support from internal stakeholders to ensure compliance with grant deliverables and funding requirements
• Ensure HRSA Compliance is met, including creating progress reports and Change of Scope
• Other responsibilities as assigned
  
  

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform other duties, within scope, as assigned by his or her supervisor.

Education, Qualifications, And Experience

• A. Degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 2 years demonstrated professional experience in grants management
• Preferred experience in capital campaigns
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office suite
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organization and attention to detail
• Able to maintain strict confidentiality
• Able to work independently and collaboratively
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work with deadlines while remaining flexible to adapt to and manage the unexpected
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment that changes quickly
  
  

Families Together of Orange County (FTOC) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. FTOC does not discriminate based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.