Grants & Corporate Giving Manager

About the role

The Grants and Corporate Giving Manager at Children's Crisis Treatment Center (CCTC) is responsible for ensuring the stewardship of existing corporate donors and cultivating new potential donors to meet revenue expectations. This position works with new and existing grantors, corporations, researches grant opportunities from various sources, gathers input from leadership, other departments and colleagues, writes proposals to funding sources, and completes compliance and grant reporting.

Essential functions

• Develop and manage a stewardship and cultivation program for foundation and corporate donors
• Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward foundation and corporate gift prospects
• Provide strategic leadership in designing and implementing requests to foundations and corporations
• Oversee and manage appropriate frequency of outreach, appreciation, impact reporting and involvement of foundation and corporate relationships
• Create and implement annual goals, objectives, and strategies for fundraising, and regularly assess progress toward goals
• Manage a portfolio of foundation/corporate donors
• Project management, from facilitating big-picture strategic conversations about positioning and prospects to completion and on-time submission of full proposal and report packages (narratives, budgets and attachments)
• Delegate writing or editing tasks to others and ensure on-time completion of assignments
• Careful and accurate tracking of funds being sought and received, including multi-year grants, and providing timely and accurate reporting of progress toward goals
• Serve as a contact with foundation/corporate program officers; participate in meetings and site visits as needed
• Design engagement opportunities for foundation and corporate donors
• Coordinate production of materials and tools to communicate regularly with foundation and corporate supporters and potential supporters
• Meet with existing and potential funders and make solicitations when appropriate
• Ensure timely follow-up on all grants and sponsorship gifts to provide thanks and documentation to funders
• Other duties as assigned by the Director of Development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in development, marketing, communications/journalism, English or a related field
• Minimum of three years experience cultivating programs in a non-profit environment
• Donor database systems (Blackbaud) experience preferred
• Ability to work effectively with diverse cultures
• Strong organizational and leadership skills that serve to support CCTC's mission and vision