SENIOR MANAGER, GRANTS

Salary Schedule

To seek, secure, and steward grant funds and resources by providing grant development services to stakeholders in alignment with district objectives along the grants management cycle.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution. Master’s degree preferred.
2. Three (3) years of experience in educational leadership, administration, management, and/or supervisory experience preferably with grant development and/or research initiatives preferred.
3. Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance and training to individuals and groups.
4. Two (2) years of experience working with federal, state and/or local competitive, non-competitive and/or entitlement grant projects.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Demonstrated knowledge of local, state and/or federal grant development procedures, regulations and current educational trends. Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders. Demonstrated skill and experience in writing and presenting information in a variety of formats to administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, business partners, and members of the community. Ability to interpret state board rules and school board policy. Ability to perform technical writing including proposal development. Demonstrated knowledge of grant development processes and sources of grant funding opportunities. Ability to train others in grant application development procedures. Ability to assist with the preparation of grant applications and facilitate processing from pre-award to post-award. Knowledge of and ability to use, create, manipulate, and analyze data within Excel spreadsheets and database systems for tracking the work along the lifecycle of a grant. Demonstrated ability to facilitate group processes, engage in conflict resolution, planning, and decision-making to build consensus. Demonstrated ability to independently plan, execute, and monitor completion of tasks and projects according to established timelines. Demonstrated ability to adapt to changes in priorities and work assignments.

REPORTS TO: Director, Grants

SUPERVISES: None

MACHINES, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT:
Machines, tools, equipment, electronic devices, vehicles, etc., used in this position. Telephone, Computer, (Personal Computer and Mainframe), Automobile, Copier

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Describes physical conditions of this position.

Light Work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated as Light Work.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY:
Physical activities of this position. Percent of a typical day involved in each applicable activity is noted.

Percentage
70 Sitting: Resting with the body supported by the buttocks or thighs.
10 Standing: Assuming an upright position on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
10 Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.
5 Bending: Lowering the body forward from the waist.
5 Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
5 Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position through the use of the upper extremities and back muscles exerting up to 10 pounds of force.
80 Finger Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm.
70 Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
90 Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed accurately, loudly or quickly.
90 Hearing Acuity: The ability to perceive speech and other environmental sounds at normal loudness levels.
90 Visual Acuity: The power to see at a level which allows reading of numbers and text, operation of equipment, inspection of machines, etc.

Note: Will total more than 100 percent as several activities may be performed at one time.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
Conditions the worker will be subject to in this position.

Indoors and Outdoors: The worker is subject to both environmental conditions. Activities occur inside and outside.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Manifests a professional code of ethics and values.
* Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
* Models the routine, intentional and effective use of technology in daily work, including communications, organization and management tasks.
* Research potential grant funding sources for projects and initiatives of schools, and departments that support district priorities.
* Provide facilitative leadership and technical assistance, upon request, to writing teams from schools, and departments with developing grant proposals.
* Establish and maintain partnerships with corporate giving programs, foundations, city, county, state, federal, and community-based organizations for funding and collaboration opportunities.
* Coordinate the administration of assigned grants, contracts, special projects and donations from development to post-award and assure compliance with OCPS policies and grant development guidelines.
* Provide information to department and district leadership regarding current trends, best practices and promising innovations in educational programs and processes.
* Prepare and provide support to stakeholders with necessary documents in support of grant development processes. Documents may include board resolutions, letters of commitment, contracts and other supporting documents specific to funding opportunities.
* Maintain monitoring system for grant development initiatives and projects assigned.
* Keep the supervisor(s) and other key people informed of critical issues about which they should be aware.
* Follow the district’s policies and procedures as related to all HRMD guidelines and the district’s instructional initiatives.
* Follow the district’s policies and procedures as related to fixed assets.
* Develop leadership in subordinates.
* Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology being used by OCPS. With the support of the district, attends training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
* Responsible for maintaining timely and accurate information and accountable for the quality of information maintained by those they supervise.
* Responsible for self-development and keeping up to date on current research, trends and best practices relevant to the area of responsibility.

• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.

* Essential Performance Responsibilities

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Non-bargaining unit compensation plan, twelve months, 8.0 hours per day

EVALUATION:
Performance on this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on evaluation of personnel.

01/20/2024