Heartland Fund Grants Associate

Grants Associate Job Announcement

Heartland Fund is seeking a Grants Associate. For a thoughtful, mission-driven professional, this position is an exciting opportunity to support new systems and processes in a rapidly growing grantmaking organization and ever changing compliance environment.

Heartland Fund’s Grants Associate supports the organization’s grants management cycle, with a focus on grants management system support, record maintenance, documentation tracking, reporting, and coordination throughout the grantmaking cycle. This role helps ensure grantmaking activities run smoothly, records are accurate and up to date, and staff and grantees receive timely and effective support. The successful candidate will be detail-oriented, responsive, and able to manage multiple responsibilities while working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners.

You will have an opportunity to help us enable equitable investment in rural communities, democracy, and climate solutions. This is a unique and dynamic position with opportunities for growth and impact as the Heartland Fund prepares to launch as an independent entity in 2027.

This is a remote position with a salary range of $59,500 - $70,000 and includes a generous benefits package.

As a funder collaborative, the Heartland Fund scales investment, supports local leaders, and builds long-term partnerships with rural and Native organizations to create thriving places where rural working people can determine our own futures, strengthening the entire nation. Heartland's grantmaking and programmatic investments support rural people working to transform their lives and communities toward shared prosperity, a healthy climate, and stronger democracy.

We invest in building local capacity for issue advocacy, community organizing, economic development and local jobs, climate solutions, civic engagement, and sustainable urban-rural coalitions. We prioritize racial justice in all aspects of our work. In addition to grantmaking, Heartland also supports rural leaders and organizations through convening, research, and communications and storytelling.

Heartland Fund has three programs:

• Rural Democracy expands nonpartisan civic participation and counters policies that harm our democratic institutions in places where rural action can define policy and democratic outcomes.
• Resource Rural (RR) mobilizes resources enabling rural communities to unlock public and private investment to create positive economic change in their communities.
• Rural Climate Partnership (RCP) supports hometowns across America to accelerate climate solutions and build healthy local economies.

Both RR and RCP programs help rural communities access public funding – through place-based technical assistance, local organizing, and a large-scale communications and narrative effort – to make a tangible difference in rural people’s lives and to advance climate mitigation and resilience.

The Grants Associate works closely with the grants management team, program staff, grantees, and external partners to support effective grantmaking operations. This role is responsible for maintaining grant records, supporting the grants management system, gathering and tracking required documentation, and helping ensure grants management processes and timelines are carried out accurately and efficiently.

• Support grantees and internal teams throughout the grants management cycle - from invitation through final close out.
• Create new and update existing contact, organization, and grant accounts and records, as needed.
• Track and follow up on narrative and financial reports and maintain other outstanding documentation.
• Determine grantee…