Grants Management Analyst

Crown Family Philanthropies; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Crown Family Philanthropies seeks a Grants Management Analyst, who will serve as a key member of CFP’s Operations team and report to the Director of Operations. The Operations team handles financial oversight, talent support, and grants management responsibilities for CFP.

The Analyst will manage specific grants-management workflows from start to finish and will have primary responsibility for responding to inquiries received from grantees, applicants, and staff through Crown Family

Qualifications

• Experience with grants management processes and due-diligence.
• Strong written and verbal communication with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to coordinate across teams and manage multiple tasks.
• Highly organized with meticulous attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Manage grants-management workflows from start to finish.
• Respond to inquiries from grantees, applicants, and staff via grant-help email.
• Coordinate with Program, Family Engagement, and other stakeholders.
• Provide quality assurance in grant-making processes.

Skills

Grants management

Stakeholder communication

Process improvement

Team collaboration

Attention to detail

Job description

Crown Family Philanthropies seeks a Grants Management Analyst, who will serve as a key member of CFP’s Operations team and report to the Director of Operations. The Operations team handles financial oversight, talent support, and grants management responsibilities for CFP. The Analyst will be primarily involved in grants management work, including due-diligence, record-keeping, monitoring, grantee/customer service, Board communications, and quality assurance components of the foundation’s grant-making work.

The Analyst will manage specific grants-management workflows from start to finish and will have primary responsibility for responding to inquiries received from grantees, applicants, and staff through Crown Family Philanthropies’ grant-help email account.

The ideal Grants Management Analyst is comfortable in a collaborative team environment, working with various teams inside and outside the CFP department, including CFP’s Program and Family Engagement staff, CFP grantees, undergraduate scholars in the Col. Henry Crown Scholarship program, and HCC/CCI company employees. In other words, they need to be able to work across multiple teams, coordinating with colleagues on multiple aspects of their grantmaking work. The Analyst should be intelligent and capable of analytical approaches to process improvement, as well as highly organized, with a keen attention to detail, and capable of handling multiple diverse and concurrent tasks. They also need to be effective communicators, capable of conveying sensitive and complex topics with multiple stakeholders.