Grants Manager

The Purpose of Zearn

Zearn is the nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to inspire all kids to love learning math. Everything we do is driven by our belief that every kid is a math kid.

Our top-rated learning platform is designed to catch kids up and move them forward in grade-level math. And it works. Large-scale efficacy research shows students who use Zearn make significant gains in math proficiency, including the students who start multiple grade levels behind.

As a nonprofit, all of our work is driven by what is best for kids. At the same time, we operate as an intense and fast-moving technology company, inclusively solving hard problems that will impact current and future generations. The problems we solve require expertise in teaching, learning science, software development, design, video production, and countless other disciplines. As an organization that is always stretching to get to the next level of impact, every single person owns mission critical work.

If you’re ready to join our Team of problem solvers, and own work that will drive us to achieve impact at scale, we are looking for you.

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is to ensure our philanthropic funding against strategic investments are managed with absolute rigor, which includes effective communication back to the philanthropic organizations on how their support is enabling Zearn to achieve its organizational goals and pursue its mission to make all kids math kids.

This role is critical to sustaining Zearn’s growth as we enter a new phase of scale focused on driving Zearn implementation and impact on math achievement. Reporting to the Director of Strategic Projects, you will be the primary engine for grant execution and the lead day to day contact for our program officers. You will manage grant commitments, optimize management processes, and craft compelling donor communications that clearly convey how philanthropic support helps all kids love and learn math.

• Act as the primary point of contact for program officers, managing day to day communications and responding to inquiries with professional maturity.
• Own the reporting lifecycle for a small number of high dollar, multi-year grants, ensuring every deliverable is submitted with high-quality and ahead of schedule.
• Lead the writing for bimonthly, quarterly, and annual funder reports, translating complex product and implementation data into clear narratives.
• Anticipate funder questions before they are asked, preparing the Director of Strategic Projects, CEO, and executive leadership team with the data and talking points needed for high-stakes check-ins.
• Maintain visibility into Zearn's current and prospective strategic grants, helping forecast upcoming reporting, proposal, and funding milestones to support long-term planning and strategic decision-making.
• Manage the grant application process for new strategic opportunities, coordinating inputs from cross-functional teams to ensure all submissions reflect Zearn’s collective impact.

• Drive transparency and accountability across the grant lifecycle by tracking commitments, identifying risks early, and ensuring internal teams have the lead time necessary to resolve blockers.
• Establish and manage scalable operating infrastructure to streamline grant coordination and maintain high standards of execution across the organization.
• Collaborate with Finance to ensure grant spending and budgets are tracked accurately against funder requirements.
• Develop and maintain a content library of standard narratives and data points to streamline reporting and proposal development.
• Create and maintain a rigorous grants procedure manual and documentation system to maximize cross-team efficiency and ensure accuracy for compliance requirements.
• Audit and maintain the fidelity of grant records in the CRM, ensuring that every interaction, deadline, and reporting obligation is documented as the organization’s source of truth.