Regional Grant Manager

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Begin a fulfilling career with the State of Indiana by joining one of the largest employers in the state, offering a range of opportunities across 60+ agencies. At the state, you'll find competitive compensation, a robust benefits package and a commitment to work-life balance. Most importantly, you'll have the chance to make a real and measurable impact on the lives of Hoosiers across Indiana.

About the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH):

The Indiana Department of Health’s mission is to promote, protect, and improve the health and safety of all Hoosiers so that they can reach their optimal health regardless of where they live, learn, work, or play.

Role Overview:

The Regional Grant Manager plays a pivotal role in advancing Indiana’s historic Rural Health Transformation Program, overseeing $600 million in multi-year investments aimed at improving access and resilience across 64 fully rural and nine partially rural counties. Unlike typical grant oversight positions, this role leads the coordination of eight Regional Grant Coordinators and ensures unified, data-driven strategies across all regions, each with its own community priorities and governance structures.

The positions requires deep collaboration with statewide technical assistance providers and regional coalitions, ensuring consistency while also adapting to the unique needs of diverse rural communities.

The salary for this position traditionally starts at $67,314.00 but may be commensurate with education and work experience. Use our Compensation Calculator to view the total compensation package.

The essential functions of this role are as follows:

• Establishes, monitors, and implements long-range objectives and specifies the strategies, KPIs, and actions to achieve them for a public health program.
• Analyzes operations to evaluate performance of the specific public health program or its staff in meeting objectives or to determine areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement, or policy change.
• Interprets and explains in-depth and complex public health policies, rules, regulations, or laws to organizations, government or corporate officials, or individuals.
• Develops and implements corrective action plans to solve organizational or departmental problems.
• Prepares and presents public health reports for approval, including those for funding or implementation of services to executive leadership.
• Develops and oversees public health program financial or budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, or increase efficiency.
• Develops and monitors public health program requirements to ensure it meets federal and state policies and grants compliance.
• Develops and supervises training of employees and consultants on public health program requirements and usage.
• Develops, coordinates, and delivers communication plans and communications.
• Presides over, or serves on, boards of directors, management committees, or other governing boards.
• Recruits, selects, onboards, and trains employees to ensure role responsibilities and expectations are clearly understood while providing opportunities to continue professional development.
• Sets expectations, measure progress, provide ongoing feedback, and evaluate the performance of employees. Ensures work adheres to quality standards, deadlines, and proper procedures.

The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

Individuals in this role should minimally be able to articulate or demonstrate the following:

• Thorough…