Grants Manager

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Los Altos (CA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation in California seeks a Grants Manager to oversee the grant portfolio, ensuring due diligence, accuracy, and completeness of all filings.

Reporting to the Grants Management Director, you will partner with program staff to ensure compliant, efficient grantmaking and continual process improvement across the Foundation. This full-time role offers the opportunity to contribute to transformative impact across science, conservation, and children's well-being.

Qualifications

• Due diligence, accuracy and completeness of all grants.
• Compliance reviews and grant file documentation.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Foundation’s grants portfolio from intake to closeout.
• Conduct all compliance and due diligence reviews in partnership with program staff.
• Collaborate across teams to improve grantmaking processes and reduce staff/grantee burden.

Job description

ABOUT THE DAVID AND LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION

The David & Lucile Packard Foundation was founded in 1964 by David and Lucile Packard. We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world. We have worked with thousands of organizations and leaders in the U.S. and worldwide to advance progress in the critical areas of science, ocean and land conservation, climate change, women’s reproductive health and rights, and the well‑being of children, families, and communities.

At a time of multiple, intertwined crises globally and here in the U.S., the Packard Foundation began in 2021 a long-planned review of our grantmaking strategies. The first step of our process was to rearticulate our vision and mission, reexamine our organizational values, and create a strategic framework that builds on and honors the Packard Foundation’s past while advancing justice and equity in all that we do.

OUR VISION: A just and equitable world where both people and nature flourish.

Our new vision embraces a future where both people and nature flourish in a more just and equitable world. We explicitly acknowledge that the fate of people and the natural environment are inextricably linked. Solutions to the complex challenges we face must account for this interconnectedness.

OUR MISSION: We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.

Our new mission takes on the critical work of addressing root causes of the challenges we face and mobilizing people for collective action. In addition to building on approaches that have guided our philanthropy for decades — working in partnership, committing to issues over the long-term, and grounding our work in science, knowledge, and data – we focus on understanding the systems that either accelerate or impede progress. It is only through just and equitable systems that we can find and sustain solutions to some of the biggest challenges we face today.

OUR VALUES: Equity, Integrity, Belief in Individual Leadership, Thinking Big, Respect, and Effectiveness.

In addition to clarifying our long‑held values, we added equity. We will champion equity by treating people with dignity, honoring a range of ideas and perspectives from those closest to the issues, creating inclusive processes, and funding people who have been historically excluded to spur progress for all. For more information, including our definitions of key concepts, please visit our website.

ABOUT THE POSITION

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Grants Management Director, the Grants Manager will be responsible for the management of the Foundation’s grants, working closely with colleagues to provide effective and collaborative oversight of grants.

Specifically, this position will be responsible for the due diligence, accuracy, and completeness of all grants in an assigned Foundation goal/initiative. In partnership with program staff, the Grants Manager will conduct all compliance and due diligence reviews of a grant file and supporting documentation. The Grants Manager will collaborate with teams and colleagues across the Foundation to ensure best‑in‑class grantmaking, reduce staff and grantee burden and contribute to continuous improvement of grantmaking processes.

COMPENSATION

The position is full‑time. The salary range for this position based in California is $89,000 to $111,000 USD annually. This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on various factors, including without limitation individual education, experience, tenure, certification, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.