Grant Coordinator

General Description:

Highland Community School is seeking a part time Grant Coordinator who will lead the identifying, writing, securing and management of all aspects of the grant funding cycle. Highland Community School relies in part on private, foundation and corporate grants to fund school programming and provide our students, families and staff with a progressive, rigorous, Montessori education. The Grant Coordinator will be familiar with individual, foundation, and government grant cycles. The Grant Coordinator understands and promotes the school’s mission, vision, values, and key goals both within and outside of the immediate school community.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as the primary grant writer and administrator.
• Researches and works with the Community Resources Coordinator Executive Director to determine the foundation targets for annual giving and special projects.
• Maintains a tracking document of foundation work completed and in progress.
• Meets with foundation program officers as needed.
• Creates and updates core proposals.
• Prepares, submits, tracks, and manages grant proposals to foundations and corporations.
• Works with internal shareholders to ensure that the projects are being completed in the timeline represented in the grant agreement. Ensures internal opportunities are equitable across program areas.
• Collects outcome data.
• Completes reports as required for awarded grants.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Completes all assigned job duties aligning with expectations set forth within the Highland Employee Handbook, Parent Handbooks, and the Charter Contract between Highland Community School and Milwaukee Public Schools. He or she will perform related work as required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree
• 3-5 years of progressively responsible grant experience, with a proven track record of increasing funding capacity for an operating budget as well as special projects.
• Experience grant writing in an education-related organization preferred.
• Excellent writer; able to craft a concise and compelling case for HCS.
• Success identifying, writing, and securing grants.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; can build relationships and communicate across a broad range of stakeholders.
• Ability to multi-task and manage complex projects, self-directed initiative-taker, team player with a positive attitude.

Salary: Starting at $28.00/hour