Grants Manager, Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities (Hybrid)
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This position provides overall grant-making and administrative support for the Partnership for Safe & Peaceful Communities (PSPC) funds housed at The Chicago Community Trust. The position resides within the Community Impact team, under the supervision of the Senior Director of Critical Needs. The Critical Needs team focuses on investing in programs and services that help Chicagoans meet their basic needs to achieve a stable foundation necessary to build wealth. This includes housing, food and nutrition, caregiving, and other human services. It also organizes philanthropy, government, corporate and civic actors to respond to unanticipated and ongoing crises facing our region such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, new arrivals and community safety.
The Grants Manager facilitates the effective implementation of the PSPC funder collaboratives fundraising and grant making efforts, coordinating communication, and ensuring compliance with Trust and the collaboratives processes and procedures in order to deliver results. The Grants Manager is the main point of contact for various PSPC stakeholders, including funders and grant recipients. The Grants Manager ensures accuracy, efficiency, timeliness, and operational excellence. The Grants Manager partners closely with Trusts Legal, Finance, Grants Management and Philanthropic Services teams, and ensures day-to-day PSPC needs are met. The Grants Manager will facilitate and manage timely and efficient grantmaking out of PSPC funds held at The Chicago Community Trust in partnership with Trust and PSPC staff. The Grants Manager will also provide support to key team members of PSPC and the Trusts Philanthropic Services team to secure additional funding, track relevant grant data, and report on outcomes.
Position Responsibilities
Grantmaking
Position Qualifications:
The Chicago Community Trusts vision is a Chicago region where equity, opportunity, and prosperity abound. We acknowledge the specific role discrimination and systemic barriers based on race, ethnicity, and other varied identities and differences have played in limiting opportunities for too many. A commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is at the core of who we are, the decisions we make, and the actions we take in our work to strengthen the communities we serve and advance our strategic focus to close the racial and ethnic wealth gap. Click here to learn more about our strategic plan.
The History of The Chicago Community Trust
The Chicago Community Trust was founded in 1915 by Norman and Albert Harris, father and son duo of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank (now BMO Harris Bank). The Trust was the fourth community foundation ever created. There are now 750 community foundations in Canada and the U.S.
As our regions community foundation, the Trust unites generous donors, committed nonprofits and caring residents to effect lasting change that moves our entire region forward. Our approach centers on tackling the regions immediate needs and addressing the root causes of deep-seated issues to realize a more prosperous future for all who call metropolitan Chicago home.
For more than 100 years, donors have entrusted their philanthropic resources and visions to our stewardship. Guided by our deep knowledge of the community, we fund, lead, convene and collaborate to address the greatest and most critical needs facing the Chicago region. From the $22 million raised to help with unemployment relief in the Great Depression to spearheading an effort to help people keep their homes during the foreclosure crisis of the Great Recession to $35 million raised for the Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund, which supported nonprofits serving our most vulnerable neighbors, Chicagoans have put their trust in us.
In 2019, we announced we would focus our discretionary spending over the next decade on working to close Chicagos growing racial and ethnic wealth gap. The Trust envisions a Chicago region thats stronger and more prosperous because everyoneregardless of race, ethnicity, or zip codehas equitable access to the opportunities and resources they need to succeed and live a fulfilling life.
With assets of more than $4.5 billion, the Trust, in partnership with its donors, distributes more than $1.6 billion in grants each year. The Trust Team seeks to match the passion and commitment of donors, grant recipients, residents, and community leaders that continue to work tirelessly to make the Chicago region one where all have the opportunity to realize their dreams.
Keyword: Grants Manager, Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities (Hybrid)
This position provides overall grant-making and administrative support for the Partnership for Safe & Peaceful Communities (PSPC) funds housed at The Chicago Community Trust. The position resides within the Community Impact team, under the supervision of the Senior Director of Critical Needs. The Critical Needs team focuses on investing in programs and services that help Chicagoans meet their basic needs to achieve a stable foundation necessary to build wealth. This includes housing, food and nutrition, caregiving, and other human services. It also organizes philanthropy, government, corporate and civic actors to respond to unanticipated and ongoing crises facing our region such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, new arrivals and community safety.
The Grants Manager facilitates the effective implementation of the PSPC funder collaboratives fundraising and grant making efforts, coordinating communication, and ensuring compliance with Trust and the collaboratives processes and procedures in order to deliver results. The Grants Manager is the main point of contact for various PSPC stakeholders, including funders and grant recipients. The Grants Manager ensures accuracy, efficiency, timeliness, and operational excellence. The Grants Manager partners closely with Trusts Legal, Finance, Grants Management and Philanthropic Services teams, and ensures day-to-day PSPC needs are met. The Grants Manager will facilitate and manage timely and efficient grantmaking out of PSPC funds held at The Chicago Community Trust in partnership with Trust and PSPC staff. The Grants Manager will also provide support to key team members of PSPC and the Trusts Philanthropic Services team to secure additional funding, track relevant grant data, and report on outcomes.
Position Responsibilities
Grantmaking
- Coordinate with relevant Trust and PSPC staff to create, update, and process Requests for Proposals (RFPs) in the Trusts grants management system
- Create best practices for communication, relationship management, and data management within the Trust, to PSPC, and to grant recipient stakeholders
- Serve as a main point of contact for PSPC grant recipients/applicants
- Provide technical support and customer service to organizations applying for PSPC grant support using the Trusts grants management system, including responding to applicant requests and hosting information sessions
- With guidance from PSPC and Trust staff, craft evaluation frameworks and conduct proposal reviews and due diligence
- Coordinate with PSPC and Trust staff to ensure PSPC grant-making due diligence tasks and responsibilities are properly completed in a timely manner ahead of key approval and disbursal deadlines
- Coordinate with PSPC and Trust staff to ensure grant applicant and recipient data entry in the grants management system is timely, complete, and accurate
- Completes write ups and grant recommendations for all grants moving through the Trusts grants management system.
- Develop reports and communicate information related to PSPC grant-making for Trust and PSPC staff and key stakeholders
- Work with the Trusts Finance and Legal teams to manage requirements related to the following Trust processes: fund balance, fund fees, grant disbursements
- Works with the Trusts Grants Management team to troubleshoot and resolve technical problems that arise in the grants management system for applicants and reviewers and coordinate with the Trusts IT team when additional assistance is needed to resolve an issue
- Track and ensure proper completion of reports for all PSPC grants, including review and approval of reports and receipt of grantee outcome/output data; coordinate with PSPC and Trust program colleagues to share information and learning from reports
- Monitors grants for reporting and impact, conducting report reviews and following close-out procedures
- Work with the Trusts Institutional Giving Specialist to pursue, secure, document, and report on philanthropic support for PSPC including compiling necessary information for grant applications, ensuring managing grants and reporting deadlines, grant agreements, amendments and appropriate allocation of funds coming in to and being granted out from PSPC accounts
- Ensure internal processes and timelines are met and in compliance with Trust policies and procedures
- Facilitate the grant agreement completion process in collaboration with the Trusts Legal and Finance teams
- In partnership with PSPC staff and Trust colleagues, provide and complete information required for grant reporting
- Collaborate with Institutional Giving Specialist to serve donors, PSPC staff and other external partners to trouble shoot and or respond directly to inquiries or concerns
- Track timing for grant reports, collaborate with PSPC staff to compile necessary information to complete report requirements, and in partnership with Institutional Giving Specialist ensure timely report submission to grantors
- Assist with processing grant agreements, grant amendments, and grant payments
- Ensure grant dollars received to support PSPC are allocated to the correct fund
- Work with Trusts Finance team to track fund balances, disbursements and budgets
- Ensure that Philanthropic Services and the Finance team are tracking funds in and out accurately and in alignment with one another
- Provide ongoing picture of fund balances and grant money on hand for PSPC staff
- Assist with special projects as needed other duties as assigned by the Senior Director, Critical Needs
Position Qualifications:
- Must have 5-7 years of related work experience; experience with a grant making organization strongly preferred
- Online grants management system experience desired; experience with Salesforce preferred
- Ability to compile and display data; experience with running reports and compiling data for meeting materials preferred
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with multiple internal and external stakeholders and partners
- Project management experience preferred
- Ability to identify and elevate to leadership potential roadblocks and hurdles to keep moving the project work forward
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to organize information and priorities and consistently meet deadlines
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and be able to start and resume work on projects amid changing priorities, with integrity in meeting deadlines and quality of work expectations
- Ability to build, maintain and manage multiple relationships at all levels
- Team-oriented and collaborative
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive attitude in finding solutions to technical and administrative questions from staff and grantee organizations
The Chicago Community Trusts vision is a Chicago region where equity, opportunity, and prosperity abound. We acknowledge the specific role discrimination and systemic barriers based on race, ethnicity, and other varied identities and differences have played in limiting opportunities for too many. A commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is at the core of who we are, the decisions we make, and the actions we take in our work to strengthen the communities we serve and advance our strategic focus to close the racial and ethnic wealth gap. Click here to learn more about our strategic plan.
The History of The Chicago Community Trust
The Chicago Community Trust was founded in 1915 by Norman and Albert Harris, father and son duo of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank (now BMO Harris Bank). The Trust was the fourth community foundation ever created. There are now 750 community foundations in Canada and the U.S.
As our regions community foundation, the Trust unites generous donors, committed nonprofits and caring residents to effect lasting change that moves our entire region forward. Our approach centers on tackling the regions immediate needs and addressing the root causes of deep-seated issues to realize a more prosperous future for all who call metropolitan Chicago home.
For more than 100 years, donors have entrusted their philanthropic resources and visions to our stewardship. Guided by our deep knowledge of the community, we fund, lead, convene and collaborate to address the greatest and most critical needs facing the Chicago region. From the $22 million raised to help with unemployment relief in the Great Depression to spearheading an effort to help people keep their homes during the foreclosure crisis of the Great Recession to $35 million raised for the Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund, which supported nonprofits serving our most vulnerable neighbors, Chicagoans have put their trust in us.
In 2019, we announced we would focus our discretionary spending over the next decade on working to close Chicagos growing racial and ethnic wealth gap. The Trust envisions a Chicago region thats stronger and more prosperous because everyoneregardless of race, ethnicity, or zip codehas equitable access to the opportunities and resources they need to succeed and live a fulfilling life.
With assets of more than $4.5 billion, the Trust, in partnership with its donors, distributes more than $1.6 billion in grants each year. The Trust Team seeks to match the passion and commitment of donors, grant recipients, residents, and community leaders that continue to work tirelessly to make the Chicago region one where all have the opportunity to realize their dreams.
Keyword: Grants Manager, Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities (Hybrid)
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