Grants Manager

Goodwill of Southern California; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Goodwill of Southern California is seeking a Grants Manager to support the Senior Director of Grant Funding, manage public and private grant portfolios, and ensure timely submissions and compliant reporting.

You’ll coordinate proposals, maintain a grants calendar, gather narratives and budgets, and collaborate across program, finance, and leadership teams to steward funders and drive impact.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of fundraising experience, grants cultivation/solicitation preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Social Sciences, or related field.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proficient in Salesforce CRM; MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook skills.
• Non-profit experience; ability to travel locally up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Supports development, submission, and stewardship of grant funding initiatives.
• Maintains grants calendar and tracking system.
• Coordinates complete proposal packets and funder communications.
• Ensures timely reporting by gathering programmatic and financial data.

Skills

Grant writing

Communication

Teamwork

Detail-oriented

Self-starter

Time management

Travel readiness

Driver's license

Education

Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Social Sciences, or related field

Tools

Salesforce CRM

MS Office Suite

Job description

Goodwill is one of the leading non-profit brands in the world and one of the largest non-profits in Southern California. We are a rapidly evolving organization and yet we have never been more focused on our Mission, on our people, and on our future. It’s always a GOOD day in SoCal!

The Grants Manager supports the Senior Director of Grant Funding in the management of public and private grant funding portfolios, conducting foundation and funding availability research, overseeing application preparation and submission coordination, funder reporting, grant tracking, and partner stewardship processes. This role ensures accurate grant records, timely submissions and reports, and effective cross-departmental coordination related to grant proposals, awards, and compliance requirements. This position is based at Goodwill SoCal's Los Angeles Campus.

What you’ll do

Grant Management

• Supports the development, submission, and stewardship of public and private grant funding initiatives, including proposal coordination and reporting.
• Maintains and manages a comprehensive grants calendar and tracking system.
• Coordinates the assembly and submission of complete proposal packets, ensuring all funder requirements and documentation are met.
• Manages grant stewardship and funder communications, including acknowledgements, donor updates, and periodic relationship check-ins.
• Provides cross-departmental coordination for grant development and management, ensuring timely collection of narratives, data, budgets, and approvals across program, finance, and leadership teams.

Grant Research and Support

• Conducts grant prospect research and prepares concise summaries of new funding opportunities and institutional funders on an ongoing basis.

Grant Compliance

• Manages grant records and legal documentation within the development database and internal systems with accuracy and efficiency.
• Oversees the coordination and submission of timely requisite funding reports including gathering programmatic and financial data from internal teams to ensure compliance.

What you bring

• Minimum 3 years of fundraising experience, grants cultivation/solicitation preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Social Sciences, or other related course of study required.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong ability to work well with a team
• Detail-oriented self-starter with the ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to complete tasks with minimal supervision
• Proficient in Salesforce CRM.
• Must have advanced knowledge proficiency of Word, Excel, Power Point, Teams and Outlook.
• Non-profit experience required; knowledge in working with people with disabilities helpful
• Background, drug screen, LiveScan, education and employment verification and MVR required.
• Required to travel locally up to 25% of the time. A valid CA driver's license and state-required auto insurance required. Driving record must be acceptable by company's insurance vendor.

Goodwill Industries in Southern California is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

Goodwill gives preferential consideration to persons with barriers to employment. Persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Goodwill is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees.

Employment decisions will comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination in employment including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.

Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disabilities

In furtherance of our commitment to end discrimination against qualified disabled individuals, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and all regulations properly issued thereunder to protect the rights of qualified disabled persons, it is Goodwill's policy that no program or activity administered by it shall exclude from participation, deny benefits to or subject to discrimination any individual solely by reason of his or her disability. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to qualified disabled persons in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, upgrading, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall and termination. We further affirm that we will provide reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified disabled employee or applicant.

It is the policy of Goodwill to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified persons with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment. If you need assistance for accommodations to interview because of a disability, please notify the Human Resources Department.

Employment opportunities will not be denied to anyone because of the need to make reasonable accommodations for a disability.