Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Way to Win is seeking a Senior Grants Manager to lead its institutional grants portfolio. The role manages the full grant lifecycle, including prospecting, proposal development, award management, reporting, renewal, and closeout, while building systems for accountability and visibility. The position partners across the organization to fulfill grant commitments and support long-term fundraising growth.
Responsibilities
- Research and identify new foundation and institutional funding opportunities
- Build and manage a strong pipeline of prospective funders
- Write compelling proposals, LOIs, concept papers, reports, and renewal requests
- Manage the full lifecycle of active grants, including deadlines, reporting, renewals, and closeout
- Track grant commitments, deliverables, outcomes, and responsible staff
- Maintain accurate grant and prospect information in Salesforce
- Develop dashboards and systems that provide visibility into the fundraising pipeline and active grants
- Partner with Advising, Program, Finance, Compliance, and leadership to ensure grant commitments are understood and fulfilled
- Proactively identify at-risk deadlines or deliverables and escalate issues as needed
- Support strong funder stewardship and identify opportunities for renewals and increased investment
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in grant writing, institutional fundraising, grants management, development, or related work
- Demonstrated success writing foundation or institutional grant proposals
- Exceptional writing, research, project-management, and organizational skills
- Strong Salesforce or comparable CRM experience
- Ability to manage multiple grants, deadlines, stakeholders, and deliverables simultaneously
- Strong attention to detail, judgment, and follow-through
- Experience with 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), PAC, or other affiliated organizational structures is a plus
- Experience in progressive political, philanthropic, nonprofit, advocacy, civic engagement, or movement-building organizations is preferred
Benefits
- Fully remote environment
- Comprehensive and robust 100% employee and family paid health care coverage to all employees.
- Employees are fully vested in the company’s retirement plan 90 days after their start date.
- Way to Win contributes 6% of the base salary to the employee’s retirement account, regardless of whether the employee contributes or not.
- Employer-paid Life Insurance, Disability and AD&D.
- Unlimited Paid Time Off after 90 days of employment
- 30 days of holiday time, including a Spring break, Summer break, Thanksgiving break and an EOY break.
- Three different tax-deferred FSA accounts (funded by employees) – Health, Commuter (transit/parking — including UberPool), and Dependent Care.
- HRA ($2,000 p/y)
- 12 weeks of paid Family Leave for the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child after one full year of employment.
- Confidential Employee Assistant Program (EAP) to all full-time employees to assist with work and personal challenges.
- $150 monthly mobile phone stipend.
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