Grants & Development Services Manager 112 views

The African American Museum in Philadelphia is looking for a Grants & Development Services Manager

Location: Philadelphia, USA

Job Type: Full-time

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

Reports to: VICE PRESIDENT OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT

Position Summary:

• African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) seeks a creative, strategic, well-organized and
• enthusiastic development professional to support the Museum’s Development Department as Grants & Development Services Manager.
• The position is responsible for the management of the Museum’s grants processes and oversees various development services, including gift processing, benefit fulfilment and prospect research as carried out by Development Department staff.
• The position is charged with aggressively identifying funding opportunities and generating awards.
• Researching and writing successful grant proposals; working collaboratively with other AAMP staff to
• identify fundable programming; and assisting the stewardship of AAMP’s relationships with all sources of corporate, foundation, and governmental funding.
• Coordinate the development of grant proposals across Museum departments and support the development of concepts for funding proposals which align with the strategic priorities of the organization.
• Ensure the timely fulfilment of all grant award reporting requirements.
• The position is also responsible for directly managing Development Department staff and overseeing the workflow of the Development Department, including processing, tracking and benefit fulfilment related to memberships, individual giving, and gala sponsorships; gift processing and ensuring that all gifts are processed in a timely fashion; checking all gift and membership batches for accuracy; and
• managing CEO requests for prospect research assignments.
• Provides direct feedback to each subordinate and handles all subordinates’ behavioural and work performance issues with support from Human Resources if necessary.

Responsibilities:

• Stewarding foundation and corporate relationships through ongoing communications
• Writing proposals, preparing applications, and gathering supporting documents
• Maintaining and implementing a calendar of funding activities including due dates and impact report
• timelines
• Researching and identifying new government, corporate, foundations and private funding prospects
• Identifying funding opportunities and new program areas to match client’s priorities, using relevant
• research tools
• Communicating with appropriate funding staff prior to submission of proposals
• Writing and ensuring the timely submission of final reports

Development Services:

• Supporting Development Department staff by providing oversight, managing workflow, reviewing
• outputs and assisting staff members in the timely fulfilment of goals

Job Description:

• Monitoring the accuracy and timely acknowledgement of sponsors, donors, and members, and the
• fulfilment of appropriate benefits
• Ensuring the consistent and appropriate use of software and program systems
• Coordinating the reporting of Development Department outcomes
• Assisting the Human Resources Department in hiring, evaluating, and, when necessary, terminating
• Development Department personnel

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum five to seven years’ experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

Skills and Abilities Required:

• Excellent written communication skills: ability to write clear, structured, articulate, and persuasive
• proposals
• Solid computer skills; knowledge of constituent management and donor management systems.
• Blackbaud products highly desirable
• Excellent editing skills and attention to detail
• Knowledge of basic fundraising techniques and strategies including proposal writing and donor
• stewardship
• Strong knowledge and familiarity with research techniques for fundraising prospect research
• Strong knowledge of interpreting and analysing diverse data
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Experience and skills in the use of basic software including MS Word, PowerPoint, Publishers, etc.
• Ability to train, direct, manage, evaluate, and motivate staff and volunteers
• Ability to work in non-profit environment; demonstrate flexibility in meeting shifting demands and
• priorities
• Handle a large variety of complex tasks and prioritizing workflow in a fast-paced office environment
• Ability to establish and manage effective working relationships with staff, volunteers, and members of the public; exercise tact and diplomacy always; demonstrate an understanding of protocol and sensitivity to cultural diversity issues
• Ability to occasionally work evenings, weekends, holidays, and special event hours, as necessary

Physical Requirements and Conditions:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time operating a computer and other offices productivity devices such as a calculator, telephone, and copy machine.
• Must be able to adapt to high pace environments occasionally moving/lifting light weight equipment and other work-related objects up to 25lbs. May have to work late nights, and weekends.

Interested candidates, please apply.