Senior Grants Manager

Department: Advising & Development • Reports to: EVP/COO • Location: 100% Remote

About the Role

Way to Win is seeking a Senior Grants Manager to lead our institutional grants portfolio from prospecting and proposal development through award management, reporting, renewal, and closeout. This role is ideal for a strong writer and exceptional operator who can translate organizational strategy into compelling funder narratives while building the systems and accountability needed to manage a complex grants portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Research and identify new foundation and institutional funding opportunities.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline of prospective funders.
• Write compelling proposals, LOIs, concept papers, reports, and renewal requests.
• Manage the full lifecycle of active grants, including deadlines, reporting, renewals, and closeout.
• Track grant commitments, deliverables, outcomes, and responsible staff.
• Maintain accurate grant and prospect information in Salesforce.
• Develop dashboards and systems that provide visibility into the fundraising pipeline and active grants.
• Partner with Advising, Program, Finance, Compliance, and leadership to ensure grant commitments are understood and fulfilled.
• Proactively identify at-risk deadlines or deliverables and escalate issues as needed.
• Support strong funder stewardship and identify opportunities for renewals and increased investment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in grant writing, institutional fundraising, grants management, development, or related work.
• Demonstrated success writing foundation or institutional grant proposals.
• Exceptional writing, research, project-management, and organizational skills.
• Strong Salesforce or comparable CRM experience.
• Ability to manage multiple grants, deadlines, stakeholders, and deliverables simultaneously.
• Strong attention to detail, judgment, and follow-through.
• Experience in progressive political, philanthropic, nonprofit, advocacy, civic engagement, or movement-building organizations is preferred.
• Experience with 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), PAC, or other affiliated organizational structures is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

The Senior Grants Manager ensures we can answer five questions at any time: What funding are we pursuing? What did we promise? Who owns it? Are we on track? What opportunity should we pursue next? This role is central to building a disciplined institutional fundraising and grants-management function that supports long-term revenue growth, strong funder relationships, and organizational accountability.

Pay

$110,000–$125,000

Benefits

• Health Care - Comprehensive and robust 100% employee and family paid health care coverage to all employees.
• Retirement Plan - Employees are fully vested in the company’s retirement plan 90 days after their start date. Way to Win contributes 6% of the base salary to the employee’s retirement account, regardless of whether the employee contributes or not.
• Life, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, and AD&D - Employer-paid Life Insurance, Disability and AD&D.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off after 90 days of employment.
• Office Closure - 30 days of holiday time, including a Spring break, Summer break, Thanksgiving break, and an EOY break.
• FSA - Three different tax-deferred FSA accounts (funded by employees) – Health, Commuter (transit/parking — including UberPool), and Dependent Care.
• HRA - $2,000 per year.
• Family Leave - 12 weeks of paid Family Leave for the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child after one full year of employment.
• EAP - Confidential Employee Assistant Program (EAP) to all full-time employees to assist with work and personal challenges.
• Work from Home - $150 monthly mobile phone stipend.