Grants Coordinator

GOALS:

To advance the social and spiritual mission and vision of Central Ohio Youth For Christ by providing a high quality program for increasing grant income, managing funded grants, and reporting results to funders.

• Identifying existing and new potential funding opportunities from private, corporate, and government entities.
• Ensure high quality grant submission
• Support successful grant implementation
• Administrative coordination of grant details and deadlines
• Actively embrace spiritual commitments and responsibilities
• Other duties as assigned

Bachelor’s Degree in related field is preferred

• Experience in prospect research and identification, data collection and analysis, outcome measurements and reporting results
• Knowledge of community, corporate and family foundations
• Demonstrated knowledge of fundraising and proven success of goal attainment
• Knowledge of grant research and proposal writing practices and principles
• Specific experience with Federal, State, and Governments grants.

• Proficiency with Google Workspace
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Must possess outstanding research, writing, proof reading, planning, organizing, conceptual and strategic/critical thinking skills
• Must be able to communicate in a compelling and succinct manner
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team
• Must be able to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and be flexible to changing priorities
• Time management skills with an ability to proactively plan the grants schedule
• Ability to take initiative, along with the ability to set expectations and hold others accountable.