Central Ohio Area Grant Coordinator Columbus, OH

Yfcnin; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Central Ohio Youth For Christ seeks a Grants Coordinator to advance our mission by identifying funding opportunities, coordinating submissions, and ensuring timely reporting to funders. You will work with COYFC program teams and external partners to align proposals with funders' priorities.

The role emphasizes rigorous grant management, strong writing, and proactive donor engagement, with responsibility for budgets, timelines, and compliance across federal, state, and local grants.

Qualifications

• Experience in prospect research and identification of funding opportunities.
• Proven success in securing grants and managing funded projects.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local grant processes.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize grant opportunities from private, corporate, and government entities.
• Oversee grant submission processes and deadlines.
• Coordinate grant budgets and reporting to funders.
• Maintain relationships with funders and COYFC teams.

Skills

Grant research

Grant writing

Fundraising

Stakeholder communication

Project management

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Google Workspace

CRM software

Job description

To advance the social and spiritual mission and vision of Central Ohio Youth For Christ by providing a high quality program for increasing grant income, managing funded grants, and reporting results to funders.

KEY OBJECTIVES

• Identifying existing and new potential funding opportunities from private, corporate, and government entities.
• Ensure high quality grant submission
• Support successful grant implementation
• Administrative coordination of grant details and deadlines
• Actively embrace spiritual commitments and responsibilities
• Other duties as assigned

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

SPECIFIC DUTIES

• Identify Grant Opportunities
• Consistently research new opportunities for grants related to existing or proposed programs operated by Central Ohio Youth for Christ, its subsidiaries and its affiliate, Gracehaven (hereafter referred to COYFC)
• Qualify new opportunities and prioritize best fits via prescribed measures.
• Work with existing teams within COYFC to garner and support for a particular grant opportunity prior to submitting grant application
• Attend grant workshops and information sessions regarding qualified grant opportunities
• Make personal contact with funder (whenever possible) prior to grant submission to review our intent for our proposal and ensure it aligns with the funder's priority
• Maintain relational engagement with grant prospects and donors to stay connected to the mission. This could include invitations to COYFC events or 1-1 relational meetings.

Ensure High Quality Grant Submission

• Ensure all RFP's are fully read, and all expectations and requirements can be met by our team if the grant were approved.
• Work with appropriate team within COYFC to ensure that the program being funded by the grant fits well with their objectives and capacity to complete the work
• Enlist aid as needed to refine the work plan and budget to eliminate gaps between grant commitments and existing policy/procedure
• Take lead responsibility in writing the grant consistent with the work plan and goals agreed upon with the COYFC team.
• Ensure all required supporting documentation is included, accurate and up to date
• Ensure grant applications are submitted on time
• Ensure access to full and clear award information and restrictions prior to implementation
• Ensure a clear leadership and management responsibilities for each grant with agreement from staff to be involved
• Develop a timeline of grant work and reporting deadlines
• Ensure the Finance department has needed accounting categories to track the grant spending as required by the funder
• Ensure milestone reporting and/or billing is completed on time in alignment with the grant plan.
• Address gaps in performance or spending required
• Ensure final reporting is submitted internally to COYFC leaders as required

Administrative Coordination

• Identify all elements of the grant making cycle for current grants (submission for deadlines, reporting deadlines, etc.) and ensure they exist on a grant calendar
• Ensure that workload conflicts between new grant opportunities and existing grant responsibilities are managed well
• Maintain easily accessed records for all funders researched, grants submitted, grants approved, management processes and reports
• Ensure adequate tools and resources exist for researching new grant opportunities as well as managing information
• Maintain a Grants Manual that includes policies, step by step standardized processes, and reporting forms to the Grants Department
• Participate in supervision, staff meetings, and other meetings as required
• Serve as point person for monthly grant management, new kick-off and continuing re-boot award, meetings with ministry and finance department representatives

Spiritual Responsibilities:

• Because COYFC and its subsidiaries are a part of the same faith-based organization and share a faith mission and set of values, we require the individual filling this role to fully embrace our statement of faith and code of conduct.
• Participate in staff prayer meetings and able to contribute as appropriate
• Pray for, and be able to winsomely represent the beliefs and values of our faith community to prospective funders.
• Ensure that the faith based nature of our organization and mission is represented with clarity and integrity to potential funders
• Ensure funded projects for faith neutral activities do not commingle funds with faith based activities or redirect funds toward faith based activities
• Ensure faith neutral funders and all government funders have certainty that their funds are not used for faith neutral activities

Position Requirements

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in related field is preferred

Experience:

• Experience in prospect research and identification, data collection and analysis, outcome measurements and reporting results.
• Knowledge of community, corporate and family foundations
• Demonstrated knowledge of fundraising and proven success of goal attainment
• Knowledge of grant research and proposal writing practices and principles
• Specific experience with Federal, State, and Governments grants.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Must possess outstanding research, writing, proof reading, planning, organizing, conceptual and strategic/critical thinking skills
• Must be able to co mmunicate in a compelling and succinct manner
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team
• Must be able to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and be flexible to changing priorities
• Time management skills with an ability to proactively plan the grants schedule
• Ability to take initiative, along with the ability to set expectations and hold others accountable.

EEO Statement

Youth For Christ (YFC) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, handicap, marital status, or other unlawful discriminatory characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

YFC is classified as an Association of Churches and as such our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, YFC incorporates within each leader role, the requirement to model, teach, share and live the faith. The relationship between YFC’s mission and each of its leaders is its lifeblood and as such does at all times and in all instances reserve the right to make employment decisions based upon a person’s religious beliefs, personal character and lifestyle consistent with our understanding of the Bible or with our overall goals and requirements for Christian ministry.

We seek to create a workplace that is intentional about Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our commitment to our employees extends to their opportunities for growth, development, promotion, training and compensation.

We will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization.