Data and Grants Manager

Family Lifeline; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 64,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Family Lifeline in Richmond, VA seeks a Data and Grants Manager who turns complex data into clear storytelling for program evaluation and grant reporting. You will collaborate across Finance, Development, and leadership to strengthen data collection, dashboards, and reporting processes, including a Data Warehouse initiative.

This role requires nonprofit experience, advanced Excel, Power BI, and the ability to translate outcomes into actionable improvements for funders and communities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Human Services, Applied or Social Sciences, Public Health, or a related field.
• Experience working in a nonprofit environment with data tracking and reporting systems.
• Strong analytical, evaluation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing multiple grants, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards.
• Experience working with statistical software and reconciling information across multiple databases.
• Strong project management, organization, and prioritization skills.
• A collaborative, detail-oriented approach and the ability to turn information into meaningful action.

Responsibilities

• Collect, manage, and analyze organizational and program data to identify trends and support decision-making.
• Develop dashboards, visualizations, reports, and impact summaries for internal and external stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain consistent outcome measures and an organizational data dictionary.
• Evaluate program outcomes and translate findings into practical recommendations.
• Conduct data-quality reviews and help resolve discrepancies across systems.
• Coordinate survey design, administration, and analysis.
• Maintain appropriate safeguards for participant data and confidential information.
• Coordinate the grant lifecycle, including requirements, records, reporting calendars, submission portals, and deadlines.
• Monitor grant deliverables and reporting requirements.
• Work closely with Finance and program teams on reporting, amendments, monitoring visits, proposals, budgets, submissions, and impact narratives.
• Help translate program results into meaningful stories of impact for funders and community partners.
• Develop reporting processes and integrations that make organizational data more reliable and accessible.
• Lead cross-departmental data and reporting projects including a Data Warehouse strategy.
• Train and support staff on data systems, protocols, and quality expectations.
• Partner with leadership and program teams to turn data into actionable improvements.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Evaluation skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Detail-oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Public Health, Social Sciences, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Statistical software

Job description

Family Lifeline is seeking a Data and Grants Manager who enjoys making complex information useful, strengthening systems, and helping an organization demonstrate the difference its work makes in the community.

Family Lifeline has been serving the greater Richmond community since 1877. We partner with families and individuals, delivering intensive home- and community-based services. Our work helps create a more equitable, resilient community where individuals and families are connected, safe, and able to live healthy, meaningful lives.

The Data and Grants Manager plays a key organization-wide role at the intersection of data, program evaluation, grants, and continuous improvement. Reporting to the Director of Development, this position works across programs, Finance, Development, and executive leadership to strengthen the way we collect, analyze, understand, and use data.

What You'll Do

Data, Outcomes & Evaluation

• Collect, manage, and analyze organizational and program data to identify trends and support decision-making.
• Develop dashboards, visualizations, reports, and impact summaries for internal and external stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain consistent outcome measures and an organizational data dictionary.
• Evaluate program outcomes and translate findings into practical recommendations.
• Conduct data-quality reviews and help resolve discrepancies across systems.
• Coordinate survey design, administration, and analysis.
• Maintain appropriate safeguards for participant data and confidential information.

Grants Management

• Coordinate the grant lifecycle, including requirements, records, reporting calendars, submission portals, and deadlines.
• Monitor grant deliverables and reporting requirements.
• Work closely with Finance and program teams on reporting, amendments, monitoring visits, proposals, budgets, submissions, and impact narratives.
• Help translate program results into meaningful stories of impact for funders and community partners.
• Develop reporting processes and integrations that make organizational data more reliable and accessible.
• Lead cross-departmental data and reporting projects including a Data Warehouse strategy.
• Train and support staff on data systems, protocols, and quality expectations.
• Partner with leadership and program teams to turn data into actionable improvements.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Human Services, Applied or Social Sciences, Public Health, or a related field.
• Experience working in a nonprofit environment with data tracking and reporting systems.
• Strong analytical, evaluation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing multiple grants, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards.
• Experience working with statistical software and reconciling information across multiple databases.
• Strong project management, organization, and prioritization skills.
• A collaborative, detail-oriented approach and the ability to turn information into meaningful action.

Why Family Lifeline?

Our work is grounded in partnership, respect, excellence, accountability, support, and a commitment to creating stronger outcomes for the people and communities we serve. We believe data should do more than satisfy a reporting requirement. It should help us understand what is working, identify where we can improve, strengthen relationships with funders, and tell the story of our impact.

If you're someone who can move comfortably between spreadsheets, dashboards, grant requirements, program outcomes, and conversations with people across an organization, we'd like to hear from you.

Salary: $64,000–$72,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

Family Lifeline is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected status under federal, state, or local laws.