Description
Position at IDEA Public Schools

About IDEA Public Schools :  

 

At IDEA Public Schools, we believe in college for ALL and we are committed to ensuring that   all   our students graduate from college. IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States sending 100% of our students to college. 50% of our students graduate from college in 6 years - that's 3 times the national rate for students in our communities!  

 
IDEA was founded in 2000 as a single school with 150 students in the Rio Grande Valley. When interest exceeded building capacity, to meet the demands, IDEA's co-founders committed to serving more students in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and beyond. We now serve  over 65,000  students across Texas and Louisiana. Be on the lookout for IDEA schools opening near you-with continued growth in our current regions an d new launches in  Tampa Bay , FL  (2021) ,  and  Jacksonville, FL (2022) !  

 

When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.  

 

To learn more about IDEA, check out this   video .  

Role Mission:  The Grants Project Manager (GPM) will play a critical role in enabling the IDEA Advancement team to raise $51 million by planning and executing Advancement operations. The Grants Project Manager will develop and maintain a repository of common grant narrative language and documents, and ensure it is easily accessible and relevant to each director of development. The  GPM will also create an annual grant reporting calendar utilizing salesforce records and support the team in updating and maintaining reporting records in the database. The GPM will use analytical and detail-oriented skills to extract internal data for funding applications and reports to demonstrate evidence of need and progress by leading data requests as well as managing and maintaining a data repository used by all advancement team members. Additionally, the GPM will conduct market research for future regions and recently greenlit regions for IDEA's expansion.  The GPM will report to the Director of Advancement Operations.

 

Accountabilities

 
Create and maintain a repository of common grant narrative language and documents to provide the advancement team with efficient grant writing support

• Create a repository of well-written, compelling, and approved responses to common questions found in grant applications- updated each year with new information e.g. student population, academic performance, expansion regions etc.
• Capture questions from grant applications and their response in repository for easy searchability from team members.
• Organize a repository of commonly used supporting documents for grant applications and communicate updates to the advancement team
• Ensure 100% of team members have easy access to the grant application repository.

 
Create and maintain an annual grant reporting calendar in Salesforce of all grant requirements in the Development team's portfolio

• Create an annual grant reporting calendar in salesforce of all annual grant requirements, categorized at minimum by award amount, complexity and region/portfolio.
• Ensure 100% of grant reports, requirements & conditions are accurately recorded in Salesforce
• Complete 2 exemplar grant reports, per region, to support the facilitation of cash receipt
• Ensure all grant related files are correctly uploaded to salesforce with consistent naming conventions

 
Lead all internal and comparative data requests from the Advancement Team to other IDEA teams and staff and maintain a data repository for commonly used statistics and figures

• Contribute to successful federal, state, foundation, and individual funding applications supporting IDEA's growth by seeking quantitative and qualitative data aligned to grant application narratives
• Maintain & update a data search guide and team training documents used by all advancement team members to find data within IDEA and state databases, e.g. LOCUS, TAPR, etc 
• Maintain and update a repository of data demonstrating need, demographics, outcomes and progress that is easily accessible and used by all Advancement team members 

 
Conduct market research for future regions and recently greenlit regions for IDEA's expansion guiding the advancement team's recommendations for growth based on demographic analysis.

• Conduct thorough research into top 3 regions of IDEA's priority areas for growth, often at a neighborhood-by-neighborhood or zip code level, around demographics, student achievement, school quality, income, population trends, charters, and family demand
• Produce external-ready resources for top growth regions detailing the demographic and educational need of a potential growth region, the impact IDEA could make on neighborhoods and areas, and return on investment associated with supporting this growth

 
Live values of IDEA: 

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them 
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly 
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes 
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change 
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization 
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes 
• Believes in education as a profession and holds oneself to a high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students. 

 

Competencies:

• Strong communication skills such as drafting emails and creating PPT presentations that include clear and compelling visuals, charts and graphs with attention to detail
• Effective project management skills including long-term planning, calendaring, and tracking progress toward goals
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks at the same time, anticipate needs & challenges and proactively address them while meeting deadlines, including some with tight turnaround times
• Ability to influence and motivate others to comply with requests through clear expectations, timely reminders,  and follow-up
• Data and results-driven

 

Qualifications & Experience:

• Education:  Bachelor's Degree required
• Experience: 2+ years of experiencein a professional role

 

IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.