Job Description
Grants Manager – Remote Opportunity
Corporate
Portland, Oregon, United States
2200063I
Working with KinderCare Learning Companies means using your outstanding talents to help set the foundation for lifelong learners, where you can collaborate with colleagues, grow and learn, and positively impact the families we serve.
With over 50 years of experience, 30,000+ employees, and more than 2,000 early learning center programs, we are the most accredited leaders in early childhood education. Together, we create environments where kids grow and thrive. As one of only four companies to receive the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award six times, we’re confident that you can grow and thrive here, too. We can’t wait to meet you.
Job Summary:
The Grants Manager leads the grant’s function for KinderCare Learning Companies, focusing on maintaining and expanding grant revenue and partnerships with public early childhood education programs. The Grants Manager supervises a team of Grants Representatives and will guide and evaluate staff workflow to help the department achieve desired results. This position collaborates with multiple departments within KinderCare Learning Companies including field management, operations and various external audiences.
The Grants Manager is expected to increase revenue growth for KinderCare’s early childhood education centers through public and private grants. The position is charged with the identification and review of new and existing funding opportunities, application and narrative writing, development and maintenance of relationships with funding entities, acting as a liaison between field personnel and other internal and external groups, and with overall compliance.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Identify new grants and expansion opportunities through prospect research across 40 states.
- Work with center management, field management, other Corporate Headquarters departments, funding entity representatives and other audiences to facilitate the application process.
- Handle achievements and track target dates to ensure timely grant submission and reporting.
- Lead the development of compelling and driven grant applications with input from internal business partners.
- Ensure KinderCare is aligned with all grant, program, and regulatory requirements.
- In collaboration with internal partners, build and maintain a grants management infrastructure, including databases and procedures.
- Run grants related accounting with support from the Grants Coordinator and Subsidy Department.
- Guides and evaluates staff workflow to help the department achieve desired results.
People Development & Management:
- Provides timely performance reviews and goal setting with staff, meets regularly to ensure accountability and follow through.
- Delivers training, career and leadership development opportunities, facilitates growth among the team.
- Provides input on succession planning, salary actions and hiring decisions.
- Fosters engagement and collaboration to build a strong team dedicated to delivering business and experience outcomes
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Excellent communication and writing skill.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize, and lead project interdependencies, and meet target dates.
- Strong customer service and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of the early childhood education sector.
- Experience writing grant proposals, narratives, and budgeting required, preferably in the education sector.
- Previous applicable experience in an education-related organization strongly preferred.
- Able to work well under stress in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment.
- Ability to work independently and to partner with multiple collaborators to achieve desired results.
- Strong PC skills covering general office software, including MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and email require.
Our benefits meet you where you are. We’re here to help our employees navigate the integration of work and life:
- Know your whole family is supported with discounted child care benefits.
- Breathe easy with medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!).
- Feel supported in your mental health and personal growth with employee assistance programs.
- Feel great and thrive with access to health and wellness programs, unlimited paid time off and discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones.
- and much more.
At KinderCare Learning Companies you’ll use your skills and expertise to help craft and contribute to our shared mission of supporting communities and encouraging lifelong learners. From our teachers to our cooks to our financial analysts, we are all passionate about crafting a world of learning, happiness and adventure for more than 150,000 children every day.
As the first national early childcare education provider to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute, we continue to follow the latest science-backed and evidence-based strategies for maintaining a safe and worry-free workplace.
Our highest priority has always been to keep our employees, children, families, and communities as safe and healthy as possible. KinderCare highly encourages its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and their communities. We are proud to provide paid time off for employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We are also subject to state law, local ordinances, and Health Department requirements for employees working in child care, school facilities, and corporate work spaces.
We truly believe that everyone belongs in our circle, and everyone deserves to be celebrated for who they are. By partnering with underrepresented groups and experts in DEI, we are identifying areas to improve and forging a path forward through accountability, compassion, accessibility, and inclusion.
KinderCare Learning Companies is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.
Primary Location : Portland, Oregon, United States
Job : Corporate