Vermont Grants Specialist

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Vermont Vermont REMOTE, Vergennes, VT, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $53,560.00 To $53,560.00 Annually

The mission of First Children's Finance (FCF) is to grow the supply and business sustainability of excellent child care. Founded in 1991, FCF provides business and financial assistance to business owners and leaders in the field of Early Care and Education (ECE). To achieve our goals, FCF works on three levels:
Individual Business Level, Community Level, and Systems Level. FCF is a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Minneapolis that provides business development programs and/or financing to ECE providers in multiple states, with regional offices in five:
Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Oregon and Vermont. For more information, see the First Children's website at: http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..org

Benefits include medical, dental, life, disability insurance, holidays, paid time off, and paid family medical leave. Allowable travel costs are reimbursed.

Flexible work environment.

First Children's Finance honors candidates' time and effort in job-seeking by providing transparency regarding compensation. Creating transparency regarding salary information reduces the gender pay gap, and eliminates salary negotiation, which rarely benefits people of color or women. It is a value of our organization to support equitable hiring practices.

The Vermont Grants Specialist will help administer state, federal and philanthropic grants, with particular focus on compliance and program reporting. Reporting to the Senior Grants Manager, the Grants Specialist is an important member of the Vermont operations team as a connector between people and process in grantmaking activities. This role will work both to track and manage pass-through grants that FCF Vermont administers across the state directly to child care providers and other partners and individuals, with particular focus on grantee support and compliance, as well as program reporting.

Working with the Senior Grants Manager, this role will also track and monitor our own work to deliver on the expectations and requirements of grants made to FCF Vermont.

• Work with Vermont team to conduct grantmaking activities for child care grant programs.
• Provide advice, guidance and technical assistance to applicants/grantees.
• Process pass through grants applications, conduct due diligence, verify documentation and the scoring of applications.
• Learn and conduct important regulatory compliance checks.
• Ensure timely and accurate generation of grant notification letters, grant distributions, and grant agreements.
• Maintain electronic grant files, documenting review and grant decisions.
• Track and evaluate grants and ensure timely submission of follow-up reporting by grantees.
• Provide assistance in the creation of grant reports.
• Maintain knowledge of grant funding policies, regulations, and procedures; disseminate and present changes to applicants/grantees.
• Monitor data gathered from grant portal to ensure data integrity and consistency.
• Conduct data analyses for use in reports and program summaries.
• Maintain system for recording and tracking grant proposals, awards, and related statistical information.
• Support gathering, management and evaluation of event and program-related data.
• Track and help develop reports summarizing FCF Vermont deliverables and achievements to funders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• 3+ years of experience working in a foundation, nonprofit, social service or small business…