Grant Manager

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⚔️ Virginia, West Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote ⛰️ West Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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ACCEL Schools

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1001 - 5000 employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

👥 B2C

Education • Non-profit • B2C

ACCEL Schools is a network of over 85 high-performing public charter schools that serve PK-12 students across the United States. The organization advocates for school choice and addresses educational inequities, operating inclusive schools that reflect the diverse values of the communities they serve. With a focus on innovative education models such as career-technical education, sports training, and bilingual programming, ACCEL Schools provides exceptional options for students in historically under-resourced areas, emphasizing both academic growth and individual development.

📋 Description

• Own the full lifecycle for federal, state, and local grants, from pre-award support through closeout • Manage the grant portfolio for four West Virginia schools, with potential expansion to additional schools and states • Review grant awards, terms, budgets, restrictions, reporting requirements, and deadlines • Maintain grant ledgers and spending trackers; record expenses and revenue; update monthly forecasts • Reconcile grant revenue and expenses to the general ledger and cross-check accounting, payroll, procurement, reimbursement, and reporting systems • Prepare and post journal entries for grant revenue, payroll, wages, expenses, allocations, reimbursements, and allowable costs • Review expenditures for allowability, allocability, reasonableness, documentation, and compliance • Prepare and monitor invoices, cash requests, reimbursement requests, drawdowns, and funding requests • Prepare or oversee financial and programmatic grant reports • Manage West Virginia-specific reporting and compliance requirements, including CSP grants • Monitor variances, underspending, overspending, compliance risks, and missed funding opportunities; recommend corrective actions • Coordinate grant budget amendments and revisions • Support grant applications and renewals by gathering financial information, developing or reviewing budgets, and coordinating documentation • Maintain complete, organized, audit-ready grant files • Support compliance audits and monitoring reviews and coordinate responses to information requests • Manage grant closeout activities, including final reconciliations, reports, balances, and documentation • Partner with Finance and Accounting on monthly close and explain grant impacts on revenue, expenses, payroll, reimbursements, and the general ledger • Collaborate with school and operational leaders to ensure costs are allowable, documented, and charged correctly • Provide guidance and training on grant requirements, allowable costs, budgeting, documentation, reporting, and compliance • Improve controls, accuracy, efficiency, and visibility into grant performance • Design and implement standardized, scalable grant management processes • Serve as subject matter expert and primary contact for assigned grants, coordinating with school leadership, Accounting, Finance, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Procurement, and funding agencies

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, Public Administration, Education Administration, or a related field • 5+ years of experience in grant management, grant accounting, accounting, or financial management • Demonstrated experience managing grants through multiple stages of the grant lifecycle • Demonstrated experience managing federal and state grants, including budgeting, expenditure tracking, reconciliations, reporting, compliance, reimbursement, and closeout • Experience in a nonprofit, education, public sector, charter school, or other highly regulated grant-funded environment • Direct knowledge of West Virginia grant requirements, reporting practices, and compliance expectations • Strong understanding of grant accounting principles and ability to connect grant requirements to general ledger activity • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, data analysis, and detailed financial trackers • Ability to manage multiple entities, grants, reporting systems, deadlines, and competing priorities accurately • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and project management skills • Preferred: experience managing grants across multiple states or school locations • Preferred: experience with education-focused grants, including CSP, Title I, Title II, Title IV, 21st Century, or other federal and state education programs • Preferred: experience with NetSuite • Preferred: experience with Dayforce • Preferred: knowledge of Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200) and evolving federal grant requirements • Preferred: experience developing grant management policies, procedures, internal controls, and reporting tools • Preferred: experience supporting grant applications, renewals, monitoring visits, and closeouts • Candidates should have meaningful professional experience with West Virginia nonprofit, education, or grant-funded organizations

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off • Retirement contributions • Optional Basic Life and AD&D insurance • Voluntary life insurance (employee, spouse, child) • Discounted childcare at Early Learning Academies locations • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Employee Assistance Program • Voluntary short-term disability insurance • Voluntary long-term disability insurance • Career advancement opportunities throughout Pansophic Learning and its network of 4,000+ instructors and education professionals • 100% remote work within West Virginia • Optional travel approximately one to two times per year to meet colleagues and school partners