Grant Manager Job Description Template

Grants Manager

[Intro Paragraph] Begin your grants manager job description with a concise paragraph or list of bulleted items designed to sell your workplace to applicants. Are you small, community-based grassroots organization, a research center developing needed medical innovations and cures, or an international nonprofit with plentiful opportunities for growth? Whatever makes your organization special needs to be highlighted near the top of your job post. This is also a great place to talk about your organizational mission and values.

Job Responsibilities: In this section of your grants manager job description, you’ll share the day-to-day responsibilities of the role, starting with its most central aspects, so candidates know what to expect and can decide if they have the experience and background required. For example, you might be looking for a manager who:

• Oversees the work of a team of grants writers, including hiring, mentoring, and acting as a final check on all grant proposals.
• Prepares proposals by conducting research, gathering internal and external data to support grants requests, writing drafts, and obtaining approvals.
• Identifies funding needs and opportunities and attends strategy meetings.
• Ensures that the department meets proposal deadlines by determining priorities and target dates for information gathering, drafting, editing, revising, and submitting proposals.
• Creates and updates the grants development calendar.
• Communicates the proposal strategy and progress to other organizational stakeholders, and obtains input and signoff on content from other departments as needed.
• Writes and edits executive summaries, conclusions, and organizational and program descriptions.
• Prepares presentations by assembling and overseeing the printing and digital presentation of proposals, including text and graphics.
• Maintains the overall quality of proposals by creating, maintaining, and revising proposal templates and proposal support databases.

[Work Hours & Benefits] In this section of your grants manager job description you should aim to sell the position to potential applicants, just as your intro section sold candidates on your workplace. Highlight the salary range and benefits. To ensure that the salary range you mention is in line with similar salaries for grants managers in your region, use a salary tool that allows you to input the job title and location.

Grants Manager Qualifications/Skills: In this section of your grants manager job description, you should use a bullet list to specify the qualifications you are seeking in an ideal candidate. If the list gets long, consider breaking it into two separate lists labeled as “Required” and “Preferred.” Whether you use one list or two, begin with the most important skills you are seeking first, as illustrated below:

• Superlative writing and editing skills
• Leadership, mentoring, and employee management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Project management and vendor relations skills
• Presentation and public speaking skills
• Understanding of basic design concepts
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous deadlines
• Problem-solving
• Process improvement
• Basic math and data analysis skills
• Critical thinking
• Strategic planning and organizational skills

Education, Experience & Licensing Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, business communications, or related field, master’s degree a plus
• Previous experience as a grants writer
• Management experience a plus
• Previous experience in fundraising a plus