Director, Grants and Strategic Partnerships

Director, Grants and Strategic Partnerships

The Director of Grants and Strategic Partnerships identifies and secures funding from diverse sources, including grants, corporate giving, and individual donors, while cultivating and managing relationships with key partners to advance organizational goals. This role involves developing proposals, grant reporting, and fundraising strategies, while ensuring compliance with funding requirements. It also entails working across internal departments and with external stakeholders to align strategy and achieve mission-driven outcomes. Supervises the Program Accountant and the Contractual Grant Writer.

Essential Duties :

• Strategic Planning : Contribute and lead the development of the organization's grants and partnership strategies to support programmatic and organizational goals.
• Grant Prospecting & Submission : Identify and research grant opportunities and prospective funders, develop and submit strong proposals, letters of intent, and grant requests.
• Grant Reporting & Stewardship : Oversee the creation of detailed reports for funders, ensure financial and programmatic compliance, and manage stewardship programs to retain and strengthen donor relationships. Develop and maintain a Grants Dashboard for use by HL leadership and central office staff.
• Partnership Development : Cultivate, maintain, and grow relationships with foundations, corporations, government agencies, and other non-profits. Network to create new funding opportunities to support the mission of Healthy Learners.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration : Work with the central development office to support the supervision of the functions of the gift accounting system. Ensure that the daily activities of processing, receipting, acknowledging, depositing, and reporting of all gifts and pledges are completed accurately and with maximum efficiency.
• Other duties as assigned.

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Mission Standard :

Demonstrates understanding and commitment to upholding the Catholic identity and values of Catholic health care, and a commitment to the Mission of Healthy Learners, the Sisters of Charity Health System, and the work of the CSA Congregation.