Grants Compliance Manager
Under the direction of the Controller and in collaboration with the Philanthropic Investments team, the Grants Compliance Manager will be responsible for pre and post-grant award management on the finance team. This position oversees and coordinates the overall financial tracking, monitoring, and compliance of grants allocated to and by Commit to ensure requirements are met. This position will also be responsible for month-end close processes related to grants and grant reporting with the Philanthropic Investment Team.
This job description is only a summary and is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required by the employee. This document is subject to change at any time.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitoring all financial phases of grants and agreements for the award life cycle
- Monitors the financial management of grants (e.g. budget preparation, budget adjustments, expenditures, and reimbursement requests to ensure compliance with all program and funding guidelines for grants awarded to Commit and sub-granted from Commit.
- Analyzing grant budgets monthly to ensure costs are reasonable, necessary, allocable, and otherwise allowable, and within expenditure limits.
- Oversees financial activity to ensure grant goals, benchmarks, milestones, and metrics are achieved on time in collaboration as needed with the Controller and department owners.
- Oversees and reviews revenues to ensure projected revenues are received
- Oversees financial compliance, reporting, and monitoring functions, such as review of subgrantee invoices and financial records; review of documents needed by internal and external auditors to ensure grant compliance
- Collaborates with the Philanthropic and Programmatic teams to ensure costs and allocations are in alignment and compliant with restricted grants.
- Ensures compliance with applicable policies and procedures, laws and regulations, and keeps current on compliance-related areas
- Recommends new approaches, resource tools, deliverables, policies, and procedures to impact continual improvements in departmental efficiencies and services performed
- May perform supervisory responsibilities for associate positions and provide prompt feedback regarding associate performance
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications (Minimum):
- Capacity for quickly understanding new concepts, workflows, and systems
- Must be technically proficient with the capability of performing at an intermediate or advanced level with respect to the Microsoft Office Suite of products, specifically Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Experience with Sage Intacct or other similar General Ledger accounting software
- Experience with Salesforce donor management software preferred
- Experience with restricted grants and budget/compliance monitoring
Education and/or Experience Required (Minimum):
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting or related field; and 2-3 years of financial grants management experience
Language Skills:
- Ability to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate.
- Ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information in a professional manner to all stakeholders.
- Ability to describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to read and write in Standard English.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
- Ability to accurately perform basic and intermediate mathematical functions and formulas.
- Ability to perform effectively, efficiently, and with quality under tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
- Ability to prioritize goal achievement while establishing a culture of responsibility and fairness.
- Ability to analyze financial statements, budgets, and research documents to ensure compliance with grant-funded programs.
- Ability to interact with people of various social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds.
- Ability to understand general business and accounting principles.
- Ability to maintain records and prepare reports.
- Ability to listen perceptively and convey awareness.
- Able to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, innovative, and continuously changing environment.
- Ability to interact diplomatically with the public in a continuous public contact setting.
- Ability to work as part of a team and in a team environment.
- Ability to maintain level-headedness in the face of resistance and contrary opinions.
Work Environment:
Generally, works in an office environment but may occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions.Physical Activity & Requirements:
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use repetitive motions of the wrists, hands and/or fingers. This is a sedentary position, however, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, grasp, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and lift up to 10pds. Hearing, talking and vision abilities required by this job include perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, expressing or exchanging ideas be means of the spoken word and close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal and extensive reading.About The Commit Partnership:
Our Mission
We believe that through our actions, Dallas County – which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation– can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. That’s why our true north goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will be provided the opportunity to earn a living wage.
To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand jobs, maximizing the cumulative impact from early education all the way to college, career, and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.
Our Story
Founded in 2012, this partnership is the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.
Together, we work to advocate for excellent and equitable public education that ensures all students – regardless of race, place, or socio-economic status – have the power to determine their future and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early Matters Dallas, North Texas Tutoring Corps, Dallas County Promise, Texas College Bridge, Dallas Thrives, Commit’s Policy Team, the Texas Impact Network, and several coalitions.
True North Traits
Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.
Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.
Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.
Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.
Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.
Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.
Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.
Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.
The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.