Grants Specialist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the organization’s mission and goals and quality standards.
• Incorporate KANA’s core values of Courtesy, Caring, Respect, Sharing, and Pride in all activities and decisions.
• Uphold KANA’s Code of Ethics by conducting professional activities with honesty, integrity, respect, fairness, and good faith in a manner that reflects positively upon the organization.
• Build and maintain relationships with potential funders, Tribal councils, and local partners.
• Monitor grant portals for requests for proposals and notices of funding opportunities that align with the priorities of the organization.
• Disseminate information to appropriate staff to determine if funding will be pursued.
• Complete pre-application screening to ensure eligibility.
• Facilitate pre-application meetings with staff to establish timeline for completion and task assignments.
• Work with staff to prepare proposals to maintain current funding levels, and to seek funding for new and innovative programs to enhance the organization’s ability to meet the needs of our community.
• Collaborate with program staff to write, edit and prepare grant proposals such as project narratives, grant-specific budgets, and standard forms with sufficient time for internal review, revisions and submission to the granting agency.
• Edit proposals to ensure they are technically responsive and present proposals favorably including adherence to submission requirements and deadlines.
• Ensure content is responsive to scoring criteria and priorities and reflects the highest quality materials.
• Create and/or gather supporting material for grant proposals such as job descriptions, resumes, maps, organizational charts, bibliographies, tables of contents and forms.
• Draft letters of support, letters of commitment, and Tribal resolutions.
• Maintain the necessary records, files, reports, databases and resource material pertinent to grants activities to ensure effective Grants department operations and compliance with federal, state, local and Tribal regulations.
• Review Notice of Awards, distribute to program staff.
• Schedule and facilitate post-award meetings to advise necessary staff on approved grant proposals.
• Work with staff to effectively communicate awarded program goals and objectives, scope, feasibility, and grant compliance requirements.
• Support program staff in coordinating, developing, and administering grant programs in conjunction with federal, state, local and Tribal agencies.
• Assist with coordination of project activities as assigned; ensuring implementation of grant funded programs.
• Assist with developing and monitoring of program budgets, as requested.
• Affiliate with programmatic reporting and grant close-out, as requested.

Requirements

• Associate's degree in business administration or related field with minimum of two years successful experience in grant writing, grant management and administration, proposal development or directly similar work; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated proficiency analyzing situations and developing and implementing appropriate solutions.
• Effective interpersonal and public relations skills.