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Join us to inspire, innovate, and build better communities in New York City, across the United States, and around the world.
The Fund provides generous employee benefits, including:
- Medical, prescription, and dental insurance for you, your spouse or domestic partner and dependents
- A retirement plan with a generous employer matching contribution
- Commuter benefit, flexible spending plans for health and dependents
- Annual paid time off for holidays, vacation, and sick leave
- Short and long-term disability and paid family leave
Fund for the City of New York
Position Overview:
The Fund for the City of New York seeks a Portfolio Manager in its Partner Project Program.
The Partner Project Program provides comprehensive administrative, operational and financial management support to over 95 nonprofit partners with a broad range of missions. The Portfolio Manager will manage a portfolio of partner projects and serve as the main contact between the Fund and the partner projects in their portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a diverse portfolio of nonprofit partner projects.
- Serve as the main point of contact for portfolio projects, ensuring effective communication and support.
- Collaborate with project teams to develop and manage project budgets, ensuring accuracy in forecasting.
- Provide financial analysis, monthly analysis, monthly financial reporting and funder reports for partner projects.
- Ensure compliance with grants management and government contracting processes.
- Process invoices for government contracts.
- Work both collaboratively within a team and independently on your portfolio of projects.
- Prioritize tasks to meet multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Qualifications:
The successful candidate must be flexible, dedicated and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Qualifications include:
- At least three years of related work experience.
- Strong financial and analytical skills.
- Proficient in Excel, including the ability to use PivotTables, VLOOKUP function, and create new templates.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to write clearly.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships.
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team and also, independently with leadership of nonprofit organizations and Board committees.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to establish priorities and manage multiple demands and projects.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Knowledge of grants management and/or government contracting processes is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field.
Compensation:
The salary range for this position ranges from $70,000-$80,000 and is commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits package including comprehensive health, dental and life insurance, four weeks paid vacation, paid sick time, TransitChek, Flexible Spending Account plans for health and dependent care, and a retirement plan with a generous employer match.
Fund for the City of New York:
The Fund for the City of New York (www.fcny.org) was established by the Ford Foundation in 1968 with the mandate to improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers. For over five decades, in partnership with government agencies, nonprofit institutions and foundations, the Fund has developed and helped to implement innovations in policy, programs, practices and technology in order to advance the functioning of government and nonprofit organizations in New York City and beyond.
The Fund seeks out, adapts, applies and assesses ways to enable government and nonprofit agencies to achieve excellence through its core programs—Cash Flow Loans, Partner Project, the Sloan Public Service Awards, the Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics and the Community Planning Fellowship.
The Fund for the City of New York is an equal opportunity employer. The Fund does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law.
The Fund for the City of New York has a limited number of internships available for mission-driven individuals. Interns at the Fund learn from and help support the teams of communication, partner projects, human resources, fiscal and other special projects. The nature of the Fund’s projects is extremely fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to work collaboratively in a team environment. Project interns are provided the opportunity to interact with senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of project and financial management.
The Fund for the City of New York is an equal opportunity employer. The Fund does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law.
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Salary range is $100,000-$115,000, commensurate with experience and qualifications |
About CARA
CARA’s mission is to ensure that first-generation-to-college students, low-income students, and students of color have the knowledge and support necessary to enroll in and graduate from college. While these students need opportunities to learn about college and career pathways, most public high schools and institutions of higher education are not structured to provide this assistance. Our programs, research, and policy work address these inequities. We work with high schools, community-based organizations, and higher education institutions to move access and success guidance from an ‘enrichment for some’ to an ‘entitlement for all’ model.
Overview – Full-time Hybrid Position
Since its founding in 2011, CARA has steadily increased its budget from under $1 million annually to $3 million annually. CARA seeks a Director of Grants and Strategic Funding to lead and grow its fundraising during the next critical period in the organization’s history.
Reporting directly to one of CARA’s Co-Executive Directors and working closely with both Co-Executive Directors as well as CARA’s fiscal sponsor, the Director of Grants & Strategic Development will increase CARA’s financial support and brand awareness by creating and implementing a strategic development plan, with a primary focus on foundation/institutional partnerships.
The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurially-minded leader with: (1) a proven record of successful experience in nonprofit fundraising as demonstrated by experience managing and growing six-figure, multi-year grants in a portfolio; (2) a commitment to systematizing and leveraging data in support of fund development and external relationships; (3) exceptional project management and written communication skills; and (4) a passion for educational justice.
Responsibilities
Develop and implement all aspects of CARA’s fundraising strategy, primarily for foundation funding, with a small portfolio of individual donors (80% of time)
Secure new funders, including:
- Research potential funders and identify top prospects in varied donor categories
- Generate strategic pitches aligning CARA programming to foundation interests, engaging executive directors as needed
- Develop compelling proposals leveraging understanding of CARA’s work and foundation interests
- Manage all aspects of cultivation process, including organizing meetings, generating communications, preparing CARA Co-Executive Directors for meetings, and participating in meetings
- Execute relevant campaigns to attract new funding partners
- Update all proposal documents on a regular basis
Maintain existing funders, including:
- Generate effective communications to update current funding partners
- Manage and design compelling site-visits and opportunities for funding partners to engage with CARA programming
- Complete accurate grant reports and impact analyses for all all foundation funders
- Complete compelling renewal requests
- Participate in stakeholder meetings
- Update all reporting documents on a regular basis
Manage CARA development processes, including:
- Update grant tracking system, ensuring that past, present, and potential donor relationships are documented in a timely, accurate, and complete manner
- Support program staff to contribute to development efforts
- Work with Director of Evaluation to update data reporting requirements
Oversee strategy and implementation of a plan for compelling communications that engage funders, policymakers and the field (20% of time)
- Manage and update CARA’s website
- Manage and execute all aspects of monthly newsletters, including planning and developing content, sending, auditing and updating distribution list
- Update all communications materials including organization and program overviews, impact decks, and other collateral
- Supervise work of communications team, including consultants and interns
- Pursue outlets to feature CARA’s work in earned media
Qualifications
Experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- 6+ years relevant development experience
- Demonstrated ability to create and lead the execution of a development strategy that met or exceeded its objectives for an organization
- Experience cultivating and acquiring medium and large-sized foundation grants (50-500k) and individual gifts (upwards of $5k)
- Experience improving systems and managing forecasting, including regular progress to goals meetings and tightly managing data integrity to ensure accuracy
- Experience cultivating a donor community (individuals and foundations) focused on educational and/or social justice
- Experience developing effective donor communications such as monthly newsletters, annual reports, grant proposals and reports
Skills / Approach to Work
- Proven ability to think strategically and develop and implement a clearly defined, actionable, and measurable plan
- Highly organized and conscientious with the ability to prioritize effectively, juggle multiple responsibilities, pay attention to details, and meet deadlines
- Exceptional writing skills and external communications skills
- Expertise in use of all relevant communications tools, including Constant Contact, LinkedIn, and Canva
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a diverse environment, inclusive of staff, donors, and partners from varying sociocultural, economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds
- Familiarity with the New York and the national education community and funding sources preferred
Additional Details
Benefits include medical, prescription, and dental, a retirement plan with generous employer matching contribution, commuter benefits, and annual paid time off. This is a full time position which allows for working from home, with a minimum of two days in the office per week. Offices are located at Fund for the City of New York, 121 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Fl, New York, NY 10013.
CARA provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
CARA values diversity and actively seeks to build an inclusive applicant pool and pursue a thoughtful hiring process, including a diverse hiring committee, carefully designed interview questions, and mindfulness about unconscious biases.
How to Apply
Send the following materials to cara.jobopportunities@gmail.com:
– Cover letter
– Resume
– Writing sample related to development (2-5 pages)
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Please include the position title in the subject line.
Job Post Link
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1cxKKxulmuJIA9_naZzNUjNfShMgpJjtf
Hiring Manager Name / Contact Info
Lori Chajet, lori.chajet@caranyc.org