Director of Grant Management

The Austin Habitat for Humanity (AHFH) Director of Grant Management leads the organization’s grant strategy, ensuring alignment with Austin Habitat’s mission and strategic priorities. Responsible for cultivating, researching, writing, submitting, stewarding, and managing all grants, including compliance, reporting, creating budgets, and close-out. This position will serve as the primary liaison with grant-making entities and maintain strong relationships with funders at all levels. In alignment with Austin Habitat’s Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), this role is accountable for the Grants function on the Accountability Chart, owning the grants pipeline and related metrics. The Director of Grants maintains documented processes and collaborates closely with the Leadership Team to drive clarity, discipline, and traction toward organizational goals while exemplifying AHFH Core Values.

This is an on-site position based at our AHFH corporate offices located at 
500 W. Ben White Blvd, Austin TX.

This is an at-will employment and terms and benefits are outlined in the AHFH employee manual.
 

Duties & Responsibilities

•    Acts as a role model within and outside the Agency.
•    Works in collaboration with supervisor to determine and carry out departmental oversight and organizational strategic goals.
•    Demonstrates self-motivation, flexibility, and efficient time management.
•    Develop and implement a comprehensive grants strategy, including an annual calendar of all deadlines, reports, and renewals, aligned with organizational goals.
•    Maintains a positive and respectful attitude along with a healthy sense of humor.
•    Manage grant relationships, set up site visits, send impact updates, set up one-on-one visits with funders as / when appropriate, and plan for renewals.
•    Research and identify new grant opportunities across Federal, State, Local, Corporate, Bank, and Foundation sources.
•    Prepare and submit high-quality grant proposals and applications, while also pulling homeowner outcomes, build counts, and demographics from Homeownership, Construction, and Finance, and coordinate with Major Gifts to reduce multiple asks.
•    Oversee compliance, reporting, and audit readiness for all grants, building project and staff-position budgets, plus restricted-fund tracking with Finance, such as recording budget to actual for reports.
•    Maintain a comprehensive grant tracking system primarily through the Development CRM.
•    Can proficiently leverage technology, including AI tools, to improve the efficiency and quality of grant research, writing, and reporting, in accordance with Austin Habitat’s data privacy policies and funder guidelines.
•    Developing funders where Austin Habitat builds in the five counties. 
•    Strong storytelling: turning program data into compelling narratives.
•    Collaborate with program teams to ensure accurate performance measures and reporting.
•    Compliance reporting and liaison for Habitat for Humanity International.
•    Primarily work within the physical Austin Habitat headquarters offices four days a week and one day off-site.
•    Be the key contact with representatives from foundations and other funders.
•    Work with the Chief Development Officer and CFO on annual grants budget planning and cash flow strategies.
•    Represent Austin Habitat to funders and stakeholders at meetings and conferences.
•    Provide monthly progress reports to leadership.
•    Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Experience & Education Requirements

•    Bachelor’s degree required and Master’s preferred in public administration, business administration, finance, accounting, nonprofit management, or a related field.
•    Minimum seven years of experience in grant writing and management, with demonstrated success securing large-scale grants of $100K+.
•    Experience managing multi-million-dollar grant portfolios spanning Federal, State, Local, or private foundation funding streams.
•    Proficiency compliance, reporting requirements, and creating budgets for government and private grants including budget forecasting, internal controls, expenditure tracking, and audit readiness.
•    Proficiency in compliance. 
•    Excellent strategic planning, budgeting, and organizational skills.
•    Competent in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases; experience with Microsoft 365, a CRM, grant databases and directories, and Adobe Acrobat.

Preferred Experience & Qualifications
•    Experience with affordable housing or community development grants, especially federal funds.
•    A track record of awards at $500K+.
•    Using prospect research tools within a donor CRM and / or databases such as Candid / Foundation Directory. 
•    Advanced knowledge of 2 CFR Part 200 (Uniform Guidance) governing federal awards, cost principles, and single audit requirements.
•    Familiarity with federal and state compliance requirements common to affordable housing and construction grants, such as Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements, Build America, Buy America (BABA) domestic sourcing rules, and Texas Grant Management Standards (TxGMS).
•    Certified Grants Management Specialist (CGMS) via the National Grants Management Association; Grant Professional Certified (CPC) via the Grant Professionals Certification Institute; and / or Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM).

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to handle or feel objects, reach with arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.