Government Grants and Compliance Manager

About the role

The Government Grants and Compliance Manager identifies and manages local, state, and federal funding opportunities while supporting compliance with grant requirements. This office-based role builds relationships with government funders and public partners and oversees grants from application through reporting, monitoring, and closeout.

Responsibilities

• Research, identify, and evaluate local, jurisdictional, state, and federal funding opportunities that align with Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando & Osceola County’s mission, programs, priorities, organizational capacity, eligible uses, financial considerations, and compliance requirements.
• Cultivate and maintain productive working relationships with government funders, municipalities, housing agencies, jurisdictional partners, public officials, and other public-funding stakeholders.
• Maintain current working knowledge of applicable regulations, public-funding requirements, affordable-housing policies, compliance standards, and funding priorities.
• Manage the preparation, writing, coordination, and submission of government grant proposals, including complex or highly regulated applications.
• Develop accurate, project-specific budgets, narratives, scopes of work, compliance plans, timelines, performance measures, and supporting materials.
• Cook up proposal development across departments, including timelines, documentation, data collection, internal approvals, budget development, and submission materials.
• Cook up the review and finalization of grant awards, contracts, agreements, subcontracts, memoranda of understanding, and other funding-related documents in collaboration with leadership, finance, legal counsel, and other appropriate stakeholders.
• Review and interpret grant agreements, funding regulations, award conditions, local codes, state and federal requirements, and compliance obligations. Communicate requirements clearly to appropriate stakeholders and escalate material risks or questions to leadership.
• Provide guidance, training, and support to staff regarding grant processes, documentation standards, reporting expectations, compliance procedures, funder requirements, and allowable uses of funds.
• Monitor grant-related activities for compliance with programmatic, financial, administrative, procurement, reporting, documentation, reimbursement, monitoring, and closeout requirements.
• Identify potential compliance concerns and coordinate corrective actions with appropriate staff and leadership.
• Collaborate with internal teams to develop and maintain systems, workflows, documentation tools, technology, and internal controls that support grant tracking, compliance, data management, drawdowns, reimbursement requests, and reporting.
• Maintain accurate and complete information including grant records, reports, documentation, correspondence, funder communications, and compliance files.
• Cook up timely reports, status updates, compliance summaries, and funding analyses for funders, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Represent the organization, as assigned, at meetings and discussions related to government grants, affordable housing, compliance, jurisdictional planning, and public-funding opportunities.
• Support tracking of grant-related metrics, including funding outcomes, compliance, program performance, efficiency, and community impact.
• Perform other grant-management and compliance responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in public administration, non-profit management, business administration, finance, affordable housing, communications, or a related field required; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience government grants, public funding, grant administration, compliance, affordable housing funding, nonprofit grants, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience researching, writing, submitting, and securing local, jurisdictional, state, or federal government grants.
• Experience managing complex or highly regulated funding sources, including grant agreements, reporting requirements, documentation standards, compliance obligations, and closeout processes.
• Experience working with local, state, or federal government agencies, municipalities, housing agencies, public funders, or jurisdiction partners.
• Experience developing grant budgets, tracking funding requirements, supporting drawdowns or reimbursement requests, and coordinating financial documentation.
• Experience interpreting grant terms, funding regulations, eligible-use requirements, procurement standards, and compliance expectations.
• Must obtain Anti-Money Laundering certificate within the first 90 days and maintain annually: training provided by Habitat.
• Must obtain Safeguarding certificate within the first 90 days and maintain annually: training provided by Habitat.