Grant Project Manager (Temporary)

Inside Philanthropy; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Inside Philanthropy is seeking a highly organized Temporary Grant Project Management Consultant to support grant-funded initiatives. This fully remote, part-time role (~10 hours/week) runs Oct 2026 through Feb 2027 and requires coordination with UIA leadership and cross-functional teams to keep grant workplans on track.

Responsibilities include building grant plans in Asana, tracking progress in Salesforce, conducting weekly reviews, and escalating risks while ensuring clear action items and

Qualifications

• Experience with project management, grant delivery, or grant-funded initiatives.
• Experience using Asana and Salesforce to track projects, milestones, grants, or implementation progress.
• Exceptional organization, attention to detail, follow-through, and communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across teams and work with colleagues at all levels.
• Comfortable facilitating meetings and keeping teams accountable to deadlines and deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain grant project plans in Asana, including tasks, milestones, owners, dependencies, and deadlines.
• Track grant progress and implementation milestones in Salesforce, ensuring information is accurate and up to date.
• Conduct weekly reviews of active grants, identify overdue or at-risk work, and follow up with task owners.
• Translate grant workplans and deliverables into clear, actionable tasks and timelines.
• Coordinate across programs, operations, finance, development, evaluation, and communications teams.
• Support grant-launch and weekly team meetings, including agendas, follow-up, decisions, and action tracking.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and stalled work and escal ate.
• Provide concise updates to UIA leadership on progress, upcoming milestones, and areas requiring attention.

Skills

Grant project management

Asana

Salesforce

Attention to detail

Communication

cross-team coordination

Tools

Asana

Salesforce

Job description

Temporary Grant Project Management Consultant

Fully Remote; Temporary PT (Approximately 10 hours/week)

Duration: October 2026 - February 2027

Our client, a higher education non-profit dedicated to increasing the graduation rates. seeking a highly organized Grant Project Management Consultant to provide short-term project management support across our grant-funded portfolio. Working closely with UIA leadership and cross-functional teams, this role will help ensure grant initiatives are well-planned, clearly assigned, and progressing on schedule. The schedule is flexible, with employees located in various time zones but the work will need to be performed during core business hours and this person will be asked to attend a staff meeting that occurs on Thursdays at 4 pm EST.

Qualifications:

• Experience with project management, grant delivery, or grant-funded initiatives.
• Experience using Asana and Salesforce to track projects, milestones, grants, or implementation progress.
• Exceptional organization, attention to detail, follow-through, and communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across teams and work with colleagues at all levels.
• Comfortable facilitating meetings and keeping teams accountable to deadlines and deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain grant project plans in Asana, including tasks, milestones, owners, dependencies, and deadlines.
• Track grant progress and implementation milestones in Salesforce, ensuring information is accurate and up to date.
• Conduct weekly reviews of active grants, identify overdue or at-risk work, and follow up with task owners.
• Translate grant workplans and deliverables into clear, actionable tasks and timelines.
• Coordinate across programs, operations, finance, development, evaluation, and communications teams.
• Support grant-launch and weekly team meetings, including agendas, follow-up, decisions, and action tracking.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and stalled work and escal ...
• Provide concise updates to UIA leadership on progress, upcoming milestones, and areas requiring attention.