Grants Manager: Fundraising & Proposals for the Arts

MRA - The Management Association; Sheboygan (WI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is seeking a Grants Manager to lead foundation, corporate, and government funding efforts. You will craft proposals, budgets, and reports, and steward funder relationships to advance the organization's mission.

You'll collaborate with program and finance staff to translate activities into compelling narratives, manage deadlines, and identify new sources of support to sustain arts programs and community impact in Sheboygan.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4-8 years of related experience.
• Two years of professional grant writing experience in a nonprofit organization
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written, and listening skills)
• Solid writing skills and the ability to edit and synthesize information in a compelling and accurate way
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Experience with customer relationship management (CRM) software is a plus

Responsibilities

• Initiate and partner with staff across the organization to understand funding priorities, document and articulate program activities, outcomes, and intended impact, plan grant and report submissions, and corporate sponsorship reports.
• Initiate ideas and input from program and finance staff that inform the creation of project narratives, outcomes, objectives, metrics, budgets, and other supporting documents.
• Synthesize organizational information to write funding proposals, letters of inquiry, and reports focused on supporting programs in the annual operating budget
• Manage the administration of the organization-wide grants process, and the grants and reports calendar, including deadlines, contact and relationship details, and move management activity in CRM, tracking progress toward goals.
• Cultivate, solicit, and steward foundation donors and donor prospects, both local and national, directly or by supporting the primary relationship manager.
• Actively participate in Development staff meetings, planning, and prospect strategy meetings with the Executive Director and Development Director.
• Research new grant opportunities, both local and national.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Time management

Strong communication

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CRM software

Microsoft Office

Job description

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is seeking a Grants Manager to lead foundation, corporate, and government funding efforts. You will craft proposals, budgets, and reports, and steward funder relationships to advance the organization's mission.

You'll collaborate with program and finance staff to translate activities into compelling narratives, manage deadlines, and identify new sources of support to sustain arts programs and community impact in Sheboygan.