COORDINATOR, GRANTS
- Employer
- Denver Public Schools
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- Salary
- Competitive
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Job Title: Coordinator, Grants
Department: Extended Learning & Community Schools
Location: Acoma Office
FTE: Part-time
Schedule: Hours vary
Hourly Rate: Starts at $25.354
Highlights: Paid professional development trainings, benefits available for those working 20+ hours/week, free enrollment for your child during scheduled shifts
Position Objective:
Support portfolio of grants; this includes administration of ongoing grants, projecting fund accounting, identification and development of high quality proposals for all types of grant including, but not limited to, government, non-profit, foundations, and for-profit opportunities, and the coordination of grant evaluation programs and reporting.
Essential Functions:
- Lead grant development process, including budget development and timelines, editing grant application documents to finalization, submitting grant applications to meet established timelines, and tracking and documenting status of grant progress.
- Work with individual and multidisciplinary groups of staff and school/dept. leadership to develop new proposals
- Assist with budget development and formatting of proposals to meet grant requirements and guidelines.
- Provide administrative oversight including negotiating terms and conditions of awards and sub-awards and monitoring them for compliance with grant standards
- If necessary, provide training to staff related to grant usage and administration
- Coordinate the data collection process for grants and necessary reporting on grants as requested by funders for evaluation purposes.
- Work with supervision and programming teams to build effective strategies and systems to enhance communication between grant-funded programming sites and families
- Ensure grant recipients are in compliance with grant requirements
Education Requirements:
- Bachelors in Business Administration, Public Administration or related field
- Or relevant work experience
Knowledge, Experience, & Other Qualifications:
- Knowledge with Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook
- Effective time management and organizational skills
- Effective communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Effectively handle multiple demands and competing deadlines
- The ability to take responsibility for one's own performance
- Work collaboratively with others on a team
- High degree of integrity in handling confidential information
- Bilingual skills in Spanish preferred
- Previous experience in education or non-profit preferred
- Ability to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds
Other information:
The Department of Extended Learning and Community Schools supports and strengthens DPS students, families, schools and communities by delivering and facilitating high-quality programs and services that extend beyond the traditional school experience. This includes out-of-school-time programs and volunteer and community partnership services. This work creates safe environments where students and families gain the tools, resources and social competencies they need to achieve success.:
About Denver Public Schools:
Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.
Under the leadership of Superintendent Susana Cordova and guided by the tenets of The Denver Plan, DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org.
Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.
Department: Extended Learning & Community Schools
Location: Acoma Office
FTE: Part-time
Schedule: Hours vary
Hourly Rate: Starts at $25.354
Highlights: Paid professional development trainings, benefits available for those working 20+ hours/week, free enrollment for your child during scheduled shifts
Position Objective:
Support portfolio of grants; this includes administration of ongoing grants, projecting fund accounting, identification and development of high quality proposals for all types of grant including, but not limited to, government, non-profit, foundations, and for-profit opportunities, and the coordination of grant evaluation programs and reporting.
Essential Functions:
- Lead grant development process, including budget development and timelines, editing grant application documents to finalization, submitting grant applications to meet established timelines, and tracking and documenting status of grant progress.
- Work with individual and multidisciplinary groups of staff and school/dept. leadership to develop new proposals
- Assist with budget development and formatting of proposals to meet grant requirements and guidelines.
- Provide administrative oversight including negotiating terms and conditions of awards and sub-awards and monitoring them for compliance with grant standards
- If necessary, provide training to staff related to grant usage and administration
- Coordinate the data collection process for grants and necessary reporting on grants as requested by funders for evaluation purposes.
- Work with supervision and programming teams to build effective strategies and systems to enhance communication between grant-funded programming sites and families
- Ensure grant recipients are in compliance with grant requirements
Education Requirements:
- Bachelors in Business Administration, Public Administration or related field
- Or relevant work experience
Knowledge, Experience, & Other Qualifications:
- Knowledge with Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook
- Effective time management and organizational skills
- Effective communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Effectively handle multiple demands and competing deadlines
- The ability to take responsibility for one's own performance
- Work collaboratively with others on a team
- High degree of integrity in handling confidential information
- Bilingual skills in Spanish preferred
- Previous experience in education or non-profit preferred
- Ability to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds
Other information:
The Department of Extended Learning and Community Schools supports and strengthens DPS students, families, schools and communities by delivering and facilitating high-quality programs and services that extend beyond the traditional school experience. This includes out-of-school-time programs and volunteer and community partnership services. This work creates safe environments where students and families gain the tools, resources and social competencies they need to achieve success.:
About Denver Public Schools:
Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.
Under the leadership of Superintendent Susana Cordova and guided by the tenets of The Denver Plan, DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org.
Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.
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