Institutional Giving Manager

Title: Institutional Giving Manager

Reports To: VP of Development

Classification: Full-Time (Exempt)

Salary Range: $60,000 - $70,000

La Casa Norte’s mission is to empower youth and families facing homelessness with the tools to achieve lasting independence and stability.

Reporting to the Vice President of Development, the Institutional Giving Manager leads La Casa Norte’s institutional fundraising efforts by managing a diverse portfolio of foundation and corporate grants and supporting the development of government grant applications. The position is responsible for identifying funding opportunities, developing compelling proposals and reports, stewarding institutional funders, and collaborating across departments to secure and sustain philanthropic support.

The Institutional Giving Manager serves as La Casa Norte’s primary grant writer for foundation and corporate funding and works closely with program, finance, development, and executive leadership to communicate organizational impact, ensure compliance with funding requirements, and strengthen institutional partnerships. The position also supports the narrative development of government grant applications and supervises a part‑time contractual grant writer.

A central expectation of this role is to strengthen the systems, knowledge resources, and AI‑supported workflows La Casa Norte uses to pursue and manage institutional funding. The Institutional Giving Manager will use approved artificial intelligence, automation, and other digital tools and will help train, test, supervise, and continuously improve AI agents supporting grant research, proposal development, reporting, and administration.

The Institutional Giving Manager remains accountable for professional judgment and for the accuracy, quality, confidentiality, and final approval of all work products, including those developed with AI assistance.

This is a full‑time, exempt position working Monday through Friday, with occasional evening and weekend responsibilities.

• Manage La Casa Norte’s portfolio of foundation and corporate grants in support of the organization’s strategic plan and annual fundraising goals.
• Identify, research, qualify, and pursue funding opportunities, and support organizational leadership in identifying appropriate government funding opportunities.
• Develop compelling grant proposals, letters of inquiry, concept papers, reports, and other funder communications that clearly convey La Casa Norte’s programs, outcomes, and impact.
• Coordinate proposal development with program, finance, development, and executive leadership, including narrative content and supporting documentation for government grant applications.
• Maintain a comprehensive grants calendar and ensure the timely submission of proposals, reports, renewals, and other grant‑related deliverables.
• Ensure compliance with grant requirements, funding guidelines, reporting obligations, and internal approval processes.
• Maintain accurate grant records, correspondence, application materials, reports, and supporting documentation in Raiser’s Edge NXT and other approved systems.

• Partner with program leadership to collect, review, and interpret program outcomes, evaluation measures, service data, and client‑impact information for proposals and reports.
• Collaborate with the Finance Department to prepare grant budgets, financial reports, revenue projections, and other required financial documentation.
• Monitor grant expenditures and collaborate with finance and program leadership to support alignment with approved budgets, funding restrictions, and grant commitments.
• Partner with program and organizational leadership to define measurable outcomes, benchmarks, and evaluation approaches for existing and proposed programs.
• Maintain systems for tracking grant deadlines, deliverables, outcomes, funder communications, pipeline activity, revenue projections, and funding risks.
• Prepare internal reports for leadership regarding institutional fundraising performance, funding trends, upcoming opportunities, and potential challenges.

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