Grants Manager, Institutions

Feb 3

Center for Environmental Health
Oakland, CA

Anticipated Start Date: 3/15/25

Description

As the Grants Manager, you will oversee the entire grant lifecycle, including researching funding opportunities, writing proposals, and managing active grants. You will track reporting, stewardship, and outcomes while collaborating with internal teams on creating compelling messages and reports. Additionally, you’ll maintain relationships with funders and supervise the Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator.

Your work will bolster meaningful public health advocacy and consumer protection cases that deeply impact people and the environment. CEH fights because we believe everyone has the right to a healthy environment and consumer products that are free of toxic chemicals. We are committed to catalyzing solutions, driving public awareness, developing standards, crafting policies, and litigating toward systemic change in the world. This is an opportunity to make a tangible difference.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Culture and Values: We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative work environment. Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice is at the core of everything we do.

Professional Growth: We offer robust opportunities for professional and leadership development, including training and mentorship programs.

Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible work arrangements, including hybrid work.

Comprehensive Benefits: Our competitive benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, 401k match, generous paid time off, and more.

Your Impact: As the Senior Director of Development, you will lead our Philanthropic Partnerships team, driving fundraising initiatives that empower our mission. Your strategic vision and leadership will help us achieve our ambitious goals and make a lasting impact.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the Senior Director of Advancement, Philanthropic Partnerships to set goals and strategies for securing grants, corporate partnerships, and foundation support.
Identify new funding opportunities and write compelling grant proposals, including narratives, budgets, and all required documents, ensuring alignment with the goals of CEH.
Write and oversee the writing of Letters of Inquiry (LOls), proposals, reports, and other communications. Create and maintain high-level narrative boilerplates and story banks to be used throughout the year that are vetted by program staff.
Manage active funders’ accounts, ensuring compliance with donor guidelines, timelines, reporting, and expenditures with the finance team. Prepare and submit timely progress and final reports.
Build and maintain strong relationships with funders and cultivate ongoing stewardship to encourage ongoing support.
Oversee and ensure that grant calendars, meeting notes, correspondence, calendars, and project plans are in the CRM (Salesforce), Asana, and SharePoint, maintained and up-to-date.
Collaborate closely with all internal stakeholders to develop compelling and accurate messaging and reports to funders.
Supervise the Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator to partner with you in the grants process.
Other tasks as needed to support the Philanthropic Partnerships fundraising goals and objectives as a team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional working experience. At least 3 years of grant writing for a nonprofit or equivalent experience At least one year of experience supervising a direct report.
Strong project management skills, and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously with overlapping deadlines. (Asana experience a plus)
Ability to thrive in a team environment and work collaboratively
Excellent written, verbal, editing, and interpersonal communication skills. Meticulous attention to detail and expert time-management skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills with a demonstrated successful track record as both a proactive self-starter and a flexible team-player that adapts well to change.
Proficiency with Excel, Word, Outlook, SharePoint, and Google Suite. Ability to travel regularly, including to CEH headquarters in Oakland, CA, up to 30% annually.

Salary Range and Employee Benefits

CEH offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a supportive working environment. The salary range for this position is $85,000 per year.

In addition, this position has a performance and milestone-based compensation model. Internal equity will be reviewed and considered to determine a final offer. Our offices are open, and we are operating in a hybrid model. CEH is an equal opportunity employer.

As an organization committed to diversity and the perspective of all voices, it considers applicants equally of race, gender, gender identity or expression, color, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, age, ability, personal appearance, family responsibilities, or national origin.

How to Apply for this Job

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About the Organization

The Center for Environmental Health (“CEH”) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that protects people from toxic chemicals and promotes business practices that are safe for public health and the environment. We stop corporations from exposing people to toxic chemicals, collaborate with responsible businesses and industry leaders, and are committed to inclusive, community-led solutions that address environmental injustices in low-income communities of color.

Workplace

CEH is an organization of committed, science-driven advocates who work together to keep short-sighted business interests from harming people in the name of profit. We are proud of our work and achieve big wins for people’s health. The organizational culture is one of entrepreneurism and thoughtfully assessed risk taking. CEH believes that to protect the health of all people, we must address the disproportionate health effects of toxic chemicals caused by systemic racism and other social injustices.

The movement to eliminate dangerous chemicals must move forward in partnership with Environmental Justice, Reproductive Justice, and other related movements working to address the pressing social justice issues of our day. CEH’s headquarters are in Oakland, and we have staff located in North Carolina’s Triangle Area, Chicago, the Los Angeles area, and Seattle. This position is located in the Oakland office, but we are open to candidates from other locations. All staff are working remotely currently due to the pandemic.

Commitment to JEDI

At CEH, striving for justice, diversity, equity and inclusion (“JEDI”) for all is critical to our mission and values. We know that having a team that is diverse in race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, ability, sexual orientation, age, background, and opinions — and fostering inclusion among that team — is core to achieving our organizational goals. CEH strives to recruit talent from a diverse pool of candidates and ensure that those professionals it hires are sufficiently supported so that they flourish.

The organization wants everyone to not only have a seat at the table, but to know that their presence and input makes the organization stronger.

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