Grants and Research Manager

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🕒 March 19

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Alpha USA

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1979

🤲 Charity

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Charity • Education • Non-profit

Alpha USA is an organization dedicated to exploring and teaching Christian faith through programs, resources, and experiences like the Alpha course. It aims to equip churches, individuals, and groups with tools and trainings to facilitate conversations about faith and spirituality in a welcoming environment. Alpha offers free resources, trainings, and series tailored for various contexts, including youth, prisons, and different faith communities. The organization supports communities through in-person and online activities, promoting Christian beliefs and practices.

📋 Description

• Conduct thorough prospect research to identify and prioritize new grant opportunities from private foundations, corporate giving programs, and other aligned philanthropic sources. • Prepare, write, and submit high-quality letters of inquiry (LOIs), full grant proposals, budgets, narratives, and supporting materials that clearly articulate needs, impact, outcomes, and alignment with funder priorities. • Collaborate with program staff, finance, leadership, and other departments to gather necessary data, statistics, outcomes, and stories to strengthen proposals. • Manage the full grants lifecycle: track deadlines via a grants calendar, ensure compliance with all application guidelines and reporting requirements, submit applications on time, and prepare timely interim and final reports for funded grants. • Maintain accurate records in the donor database/CRM, including grant tracking, awards, reporting schedules, and funder communications. • Cultivate and steward relationships with foundation and corporate program officers as needed, including follow-up correspondence and site visit preparation. • Perform in-depth prospect research on individual major donors and high-capacity philanthropists using wealth screening tools, public records, news sources, and other databases. • Draft personalized major gift proposals, concept papers, case statements, gift illustrations, and stewardship reports tailored to individual donor interests and giving history. • Support major and principal gift officers (and leadership as needed) in preparing donor meetings by providing background research, talking points, and proposal materials. • Assist in strategy development for major donor cultivation and solicitation as assigned, working closely with the Major Donor Communications Manager on related communications and materials.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Nonprofit Management, Public Administration, or a related field (or equivalent experience). • 4+ years of professional grant writing experience in a nonprofit setting, with a demonstrated track record of successfully securing six- and seven-figure grants. • Strong prospect research skills, including experience using online databases, wealth screening tools, and public records for both institutional and individual donors. • Exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills with the ability to produce clear, compelling, persuasive, and error-free documents under tight deadlines. • Excellent analytical and research abilities; proficiency in synthesizing complex information into accessible narratives. • Highly organized with strong project management skills; ability to manage multiple competing deadlines and priorities. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (especially Word and Excel); experience with donor/CRM databases (e.g., Raiser's Edge, Salesforce).

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development • Flexible work arrangements