The Organization
Community Change builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change. With our community-based partner groups, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the status quo while also building pathways to influence the insider conversation.
Our vision of a better world centers the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on immigrant rights, economic justice, and racial equity, including a focus on jobs and housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform.
Position Overview
About Community Change and Community Change Action:
Community Change builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change. With our community-based partner groups, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the status quo while also building pathways to influence the insider conversation.
Our vision of a better world centers the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on immigrant rights, economic justice, and racial equity, including a focus on jobs and housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform.
This position also supports Community Change Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) advocacy organization. While motivated by the same core values – equity, inclusion, and justice – Community Change and Community Change Action operate independently of one another and each organization has its own board of directors.
Position Description:
Community Change and Community Change Action seek a grants administrator to support the Institutional Advancement (IA) team’s organizational fundraising efforts, particularly foundation/institutional fundraising. The grants administrator is a key member of the IA team, which works collaboratively across the organization and in close coordination with executive leadership, program teams, finance and operations teams, and the communications unit to raise funds and increase public awareness of Community Change/Action’s mission and accomplishments.
The ideal grants administrator is an experienced project manager, and has a keen eye for detail, strong critical thinking skills, and an ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced and busy environment. This position will help IA maintain high standards for grant deliverables and communication with our large portfolio of foundation partners. Community Change also plays an essential role in cultivating new talent and capacities in the progressive ecosystem, including serving as a fiscal sponsor for new entities and short-term projects; the grants administrator will play a key role in supporting and coordinating fundraising for these fiscally sponsored projects.
Principal Responsibilities:
The grants administrator will:
- Support fundraising team in responding to funding opportunities and grant requirements.
- Identify, coordinate, and submit proposal and report materials according to funder requirements.
- Coordinate with Community Change/Action operational, communications, policy, and programmatic teams to gather and maintain up-to-date materials for funder deliverables.
- Review all materials to ensure they are complete and responsive to funder requirements.
- Maintain complete and accurate records in Salesforce and IA file systems.
- Provide research and writing support to fundraising staff, as needed.
- Assemble information and draft background materials for funder meetings.
- Track and compile information about key organizational activities and accomplishments for reporting and marketing purposes.
- Coordinate with sponsored projects and Community Change operational teams to track and respond to funding opportunities.
- Support other IA functions, e.g., data management, marketing, donor fundraising, and events, as needed.
Qualifications:
General:
- Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects to completion.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within and outside the organization.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite applications.
- Experience using project management tools (e.g., Basecamp) to manage complex projects preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communications skills.
- Passion for social justice and a commitment to work in solidarity with the people most directly impacted by injustice.
Fundraising:
- Experience with foundation and/or government grants management.
- Familiarity with the social justice philanthropic landscape and fundraising practices is highly desirable.
- Experience with foundation grants management applications (e.g., Fluxx) a plus.
- Experience with CRM required; familiarity with Salesforce preferred.
- Commitment to Community Change’s mission to build the power of low-income people of color to fight for a world where everyone can thrive; and
- Commitment to economic, race, and gender justice.
This person reports to: Deputy Director of Development Strategy and Senior Writer
Classification: Community Change recognizes a staff bargaining unit affiliated with IFPTE Local 70, a union for non-profit workers. This position is included in Community Change’s bargaining unit and covered under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
COVID-19 Requirements: Community Change requires all new employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (within six weeks after the start of employment) unless a medical or religious exemption or other exemption allowed under applicable law is requested and approved. All offers of employment are contingent on compliance with this requirement. An employee will be considered fully vaccinated once (i) two weeks have elapsed since after the employee has received the final dose of a primary COVID vaccine series (e.g., two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, two doses of the Moderna vaccine, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine) and (ii) the employee has received any booster vaccine dose currently recommended by the CDC for those in the employee’s age group. Should the CDC subsequently recommend additional boosters or should an employee otherwise become newly subject to a CDC booster recommendation, an employee shall continue to be considered fully vaccinated if the employee gets the additional booster within one month of the change.
Travel Requirements: Minimal (up to 5% for occasional staff meetings)
Salary & benefits: $65,000-$70,000 annual salary. Community Change also offers an excellent benefits package, which includes 4 weeks of annual paid vacation; additional paid holiday leave between December 24 and January 1; 8% employer contribution to retirement account after six months of employment (and 3% employer contribution for the first 6 months); and a choice of generous health insurance plans.
Position Location: Flexible
Closing Date of Position: Open until filled
How to apply: Please click HERE to submit a resume, a cover letter that includes salary expectations and at least two writing samples.
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Community Change is an Equal Opportunity Employer
How To Apply
Please click HERE to submit a resume, a cover letter that includes salary expectations and at least two writing samples.