The core responsibility of this role is to organize, communicate and manage grant activities. This role will research and submit proposals that support our strategic initiatives, steward donors, prepare Letters of Intent/Inquiry, and coordinate interdepartmental inputs. This is a multifaceted role that will challenge you to manage a full range of activities that are required to prepare, submit, and manage grant proposals and reports. This role will involve a high level of confidentiality in knowledge and documentation.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Manage full range of activities required to prepare and submit grant proposals and reports, including writing, editing, proofreading, and monitoring of grants life cycle.
• Ensure database, correspondence and files are organized and current and ensure that all proposal submissions comply with stated requirements and guidelines.
• Ensure that proposals and grant reports are submitted in a timely fashion, preferably in advance of deadlines.
• Support and align with Philabundance cultural pillars. Ensure communications, actions and interactions reflect a focus on People, Professionalism, Partnerships, and Progress.
Additional Job Duties:
• Develop and cultivate contacts among grantors and potential funding sources.
• Actively learn new things on own initiative and deliver options, tools, and solutions to the team.
Work Experience
• Ideally, 1 year professional or some formal education experience using strong writing skills to influence, convey information and combine information from a variety of sources.
• Experience working in a sales, customer service, marketing or other target audience-focused environment.
• Experience working in a team environment where solutions, teamwork and collaboration were heavily utilized to meet a goal. This could be in a work, academic, volunteer or project environment.
• Experience working with databases, creating and running reports, managing accurate input and managing data quality.
• Experience working with a diverse workforce in a support role, ideally requiring administrative support.
• Experience managing projects or activities with competing priorities.
• Experience tracking projects or activities which include deadlines, collaboration, multiple contacts, and multiple locations.
Preferred
• Experience with developing proposals for foundation, corporate and institutional donors.
• Experience in a non-profit organization with an understanding of development activities and donor relationships.
• Previous experience handling financial responsibilities, tracking cash and check flow, automated money systems with requirement to process with a sense of urgency and follow up.
Required Skills and Abilities:
• Strong administrative capability to work with databases and produce reports, communications, and analyses to present internally and externally.
• Knowledge of Microsoft suite (including PowerPoint, Teams, and Excel); experience with a CRM database such as SalesForce or Raiser’s Edge. Advanced Excel abilities are a plus.
• Technical aptitude for databases, reporting, and providing accurate timely information. Previous experience processing financial transactions, donor contributions preferred.
• Excellent writing and communications skills which can support and influence. The ability to produce concise, clear, and persuasive content is critical to success.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive and accurate research.
• Cultural awareness and expression; understands and respects how ideas and meaning are creatively expressed in a variety of cultures.
• Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to build strong relationships and work collaboratively with individuals and teams internally and externally.
• Solution driven: able to sort through available information to arrive at an effective solution.
• Organizational skills which yield consistent and accurate information: reports, processing of donations and communications are produced in a timely reliable manner.
• Must be able to work with confidential information.
• Must have strong attention to detail and deadlines.
Generous Paid Time Off & Holidays
Paid Parental Leave
Full Medical, Dental & Vision
403b Retirement Plan
Tuition Assistance
EAP Services
Please visit our website at https://www.philabundance.org/career/ to find out more about our openings and life at Philabundance.
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Philabundance is driving hunger from our communities today and working to end hunger for good. It distributes more than 50 million pounds annually through a network of 350 partners including food pantries, houses of worship, hospitals, schools, libraries and other service providers. Philabundance serves 135,000 people each week in our nine-county service area of Southern New Jersey and Southeastern Pennsylvania.