Director of Treasury
October 1, 2024IT SOX Compliance Lead
October 3, 2024#9823 Job Description
Fiscal Grants Manager
Position Summary
The Fiscal Grants Manager is a member of the Finance team and is responsible for monitoring grant budgets and managing compliance reporting of grant awards that support agency goals and meeting funder guidelines and criteria. This position requires strong data analysis, program budgeting, project management skills, with an emphasis on federal grant compliance knowledge. The successful candidate will work closely with our programs to ensure that grant funding aligns with our strategic goals and mission.
Core Responsibilities:
Maintain grant compliance and reporting, including outcome measurement and grant budgets—taking responsibility for meeting high standards of effectiveness, timeliness, and completeness, including
- Monitoring and maintaining funder reporting schedules and adhering to deadlines.
- Tracking progress toward organizational and programmatic outcomes and goals.
- Assembling all necessary supporting materials and documents including budget reports, outcome measurements, success stories, etc.; submit reports to funders on the prescribed basis.
- Manage the full cycle of the grant budgets, from application to reporting, ensuring compliance with grant requirements.
- Drafting fiscal budget narratives and preparing other fiscal requirements by collaboration with program staff, finance, and Leadership team.
- Maintain accurate records and databases of all grant-related activities.
- Provide regular updates to the leadership team on grant-related activities.
- Prepare interim and final reports for funders, detailing the use of funds, project outcomes, and the impact on the community and environment. This includes financial reporting as well as qualitative assessments of project success.
- Regularly monitors and reviews department processes and proposes changes in accordance with federal, state, and agency guidelines.
Relationships and Roles:
- Demonstrates the ability to interact and cooperate with all employees.
- Builds trust, values others, is responsible for developing, updating, revising, and maintaining communication effectively, drives execution, fosters innovation, focuses on the customer, collaborates with others, solves problems creatively, and demonstrates high integrity.
- Maintains professional internal and external relationships that meet company core values.
- Inspires and supports North Texas cities in implementation of programs and projects.
Required Qualifications/Skills:
- Accounting degree with 5+ years of work experience with 2+ years in nonprofit compliance and grants administration and/or nonprofit accounting.
- Demonstrated success in administering grants from foundations, government agencies, and/or corporate sponsors.
- Demonstrated analytical and persuasive writing skills experience.
- Strong administrative skills and self-motivation with the ability to set priorities and manage multiple tasks under minimal supervision in an effective and efficient manner.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the capacity to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, demonstrating initiative and problem-solving skills.
- Intermediate to expert skills in Microsoft Office (specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
Personal Characteristics:
- A creative, thoughtful, servant leader with a solutions orientation and the ability to identify new ways of working to increase operational efficiencies.
- An individual who can work across a diverse set of disciplines, bridging a wide range of expertise, with a demonstrated ability to work with agility, efficiency, and diplomacy in a dynamic environment.
- A highly ethical person who exercises sound judgment in both day-to-day decisions and strategic issues.
- An initiative-taking, resourceful, and dependable manager.
- Brings a positive attitude to interactions with staff, other senior management personnel, and funding sources.
- A leader who models professional courage, engages in trust-based debate, asks hard or unpopular questions, and is willing to say no.