Grants & Evaluation Manager

The Grants & Evaluation Manager manages and supports the full grant lifecycle, including proposal development and submission, post-award administration, reporting, compliance, and closeout. The position has a particular focus on evaluation, serving as the primary liaison between internal teams and external evaluators.

The ideal candidate has experience with National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, strong general grant-management skills, and the ability to coordinate data collection, analyze program data, monitor performance, and support evidence-based program improvement.

• Coordinate grant proposals from initial opportunity review through final submission, with an emphasis on NSF funding opportunities.
• Develop proposal schedules, checklists, and internal review processes.
• Coordinate contributions from principal investigators, program staff, finance teams, leadership, partners, and external evaluators.
• Support the preparation of proposal narratives, budgets, budget justifications, evaluation plans, data-management plans, biosketches, letters of support, and other required materials.
• Review applications for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and compliance with funder requirements.
• Support proposal submissions through Research.gov and other sponsor systems.
• Monitor funding opportunities and communicate relevant requirements and deadlines to internal stakeholders.

• Manage assigned awards from project launch through closeout.
• Maintain grant files, reporting calendars, award documentation, and records of key requirements.
• Track project milestones, deliverables, performance measures, expenditures, reporting deadlines, and required approvals.
• Coordinate annual, interim, and final programmatic reports.
• Partner with finance and program teams to monitor grant budgets, spending, cost share, subawards, and financial commitments.
• Monitor activities for alignment with the approved scope of work, budget, award terms, sponsor requirements, and organizational policies.
• Coordinate requests for budget revisions, no-cost extensions, changes in key personnel, and other award modifications.
• Identify compliance concerns, reporting gaps, schedule risks, and performance issues and elevate them appropriately.
• Coordinate grant closeout, including final reporting, financial reconciliation, documentation, and records retention.

• Serve as the primary liaison between UIDP and external evaluators.
• Coordinate evaluation timelines, meetings, data requests, surveys, interviews, stakeholder participation, reports, and other deliverables.
• Help ensure evaluation activities align with grant objectives, proposal commitments, performance measures, and NSF reporting expectations.
• Support the development and maintenance of logic models, theories of change, evaluation questions, performance indicators, and data-collection plans.
• Coordinate the collection, organization, validation, and secure transfer of data to external evaluators.
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to support program monitoring, reporting, and decision-making.
• Review evaluation reports for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and alignment with grant requirements.
• Track evaluation findings and coordinate with program teams on recommended actions and program improvements.
• Develop clear summaries, dashboards, presentations, and reports for technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Maintain organized records of evaluation activities, data sources, findings, decisions, and deliverables.

Other Duties as Assigned:
This position may be responsible for a variety of additional tasks to support the effective operation of the organization. These may include general administrative functions, clerical support, document preparation, data entry, scheduling assistance, meeting coordination, filing, supply management, and other office-related activities. Responsibilities may evolve based on organizational needs, and flexibility and a collaborative approach are essential.

You thrive in a dynamic grant environment and adapt easily as funding priorities, reporting requirements, and project needs evolve. You effectively balance proposal development, post-award administration, evaluation coordination, and data analysis while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines. Your commitment to continuous learning keeps you current with NSF requirements, grant-management systems, evaluation methods, and analytical tools.

You are proactive, organized, and comfortable working independently or collaboratively with principal investigators, program teams, finance staff, external evaluators, and funding partners. You anticipate risks, maintain complete grant records, and ensure that milestones, deliverables, and reporting requirements are completed on time.

Above all, you are passionate about strengthening grant-funded programs and using data and evaluation findings to drive improvement. Your grant…