Grants Coordinator - Part-Time - $28.46-$39.88 per hour

Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Grants Coordinator to serve as a key driver of external funding strategy and execution helping ensure SPRHC can expand services, strengthen operations, and support community health through competitive grant funding.

Part-time

We are seeking a highly skilled Grants Coordinator to serve as a key driver of external funding strategy and execution helping ensure SPRHC can expand services, strengthen operations, and support community health through competitive grant funding.

$28.46-$39.88 per hour based on experience and qualifications

Essential Job Functions:

• Continuously scan federal (HRSA, CMS, USDA, SAMHSA, FEMA), state (CDPHE, HCPF, OEDIT), foundation, and corporate funding sources for opportunities aligned with SPRHC’s strategic priorities and rural health mission.
• Maintain a forward looking grants pipeline and present qualified opportunities for Go or No Go review before any application work begins.
• Brief the CFO regularly on the funding landscape: what is available, what SPRHC qualifies for, what is worth pursuing, and what is not.

• Lead all federal, state, and other organizational grant writing for SPRHC, its clinics, and VCLC.
• Translate clinical, operational, and community health concepts into compelling, evidence based narratives.
• Build defensible budgets in partnership with Accounting, including indirect cost calculations, match documentation, and allowable cost coding.
• Ensure every submission meets funder guidelines, formatting requirements, and deadlines without exception.

• Before accepting any Notice of Award, partner with Finance and Compliance to review match requirements, period of performance, allowable costs, reporting cadence, and repayment triggers.
• Confirm in writing that the named operating owner has read and understood the award.
• Set up each awarded grant in the SPRHC Grant Register with all required tracking fields populated.

• Serve as project manager for awarded grants, building implementation timelines, deliverable schedules, and reporting calendars.
• Coordinate cross departmental project teams to keep funded activities on scope, on schedule, and within budget.
• o Run standing check ins with each grant’s operating owner and surface risks early.

• Work closely with the Finance team to ensure expenditures are coded correctly to grant funds, drawdowns are timely, match obligations are tracked, and program income is captured.
• Support monthly close by confirming grant revenue recognition matches expense activity, with deferred revenue released in the period related expenses are recognized.
• Flag any allowable cost question or budget variance for resolution before it becomes an audit finding.

• Maintain the SPRHC Grant Register as the single source of truth for all active awards.
• Issue regular status updates to the CFO, Accounting, and operating owners on every grant, including drawn versus spent, deliverables due, reporting deadlines, and risk flags.
• Prepare and submit all funder progress reports, financial reports, and closeout documentation accurately and on time.

• Ensure ongoing compliance with funder requirements, Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200), and SPRHC policy.
• Maintain organized, audit ready grant records.
• Serve as the primary point of contact with grant funders, responding to inquiries professionally and protecting SPRHC funder relationships.
• Support audits, monitoring visits, and federal or state site reviews.

• Operate as a direct extension of the CFO on grant risk.
• Quantify repayment exposure on any underperforming grant.
• Escalate disengagement, scope changes, or reporting failures before they reach a funder.
• Never communicate with a funder about an exit or scope reduction without CFO authorization.

• Educate department heads, clinical staff, and leadership on grant requirements and their roles in funded projects.
• Assist with sustainability planning…