Grants Manager and Impact Analyst

The Just Trust; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Grants Manager and Impact Analyst at The Just Trust will oversee the systems behind our grant making, including outgoing payments, tracking restricted grants, and maintaining the data infrastructure for MEL work. This full-time role sits at the intersection of Finance & Operations, Programs, and the Office of the CEO.

They will build reporting practices and analytical capacity to support evidence-based decision-making, strategic learning, and measurable impact as the organization scales in

Job description

The Grants Manager and Impact Analyst will own the operational systems behind The Just Trust's grant making: managing outgoing grantee payments, tracking incoming restricted grants, and keeping the data infrastructure that powers our Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) work accurate and usable. This is a full-time role sitting at the intersection of Finance & Operations, Program, and Office of the CEO, with close day-to-day collaboration across the organization. This role will also help build and strengthen the organization’s long-term measurement and learning infrastructure, ensuring that grant making strategy, organizational priorities, and program outcomes are translated into actionable insights and measurable impact. The Grants and Impact Manager will play a critical role in helping The Just Trust develop the systems, reporting practices, and analytical capacity needed to support evidence-based decision-making, strategic learning, and philanthropic credibility as the organization enters its next phase of growth.

The Grants Manager and Impact Analyst must have exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills, fluency with data management tools, excellent communication skills, and a passion for using data to improve grant making and the grantee experience. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with a strong operational instinct. They are someone who sees a grants database not just as an administrative tool but as the connective tissue between what the organization funds and what it can prove. They bring hands-on experience managing the grant lifecycle, from award through audit, and they know how to keep multiple open workflows moving without letting anything fall through the cracks. Additionally, this role will be expected to work at the cutting edge of AI integration to ensure that TJT effectively uses AI tools.

This person also cares about impact measurement and learning as practical infrastructure. They understand how data collection actually works inside a small organization, and they know how to make MEL systems usable for teams who are also trying to do ten other things. They are organized without being rigid, comfortable moving between financial details and programmatic context, and genuinely motivated by the idea that better data makes better decisions.

They are excited by the idea of joining a small, focused team at a real inflection point. 2026 is the year The Just Trust is building the measurement backbone for its next multi-year strategy, and this role is part of making that happen.