Job description

JOB SUMMARY:

The Foundation Development Liaison position (FDL) is responsible for initiating and managing any and all fundraising campaigns, developing relationships with donors, civic leaders, community leaders, organizations, and other non-profits. Establishing relationships with individuals, businesses, religious organizations, and institutions for donations. Securing a variety of donation types such as end-of-life gifts, gift annuities, major gifts, endowment campaigns, annual campaigns and corporate giving. Delivering presentations to potential donors. Developing and managing fundraising events. The FDL is responsible for any and all researching, initiating, developing, implementing, managing, executing, tracking, reporting and overseeing all strategic short and long-term foundation development, fundraising and grants. The FDL will initiate and maintain all grants and other funding for all Serve the People Community Health Center (STP)-related services and all other STP corporation services and collaborate with community, local, state, and federal programs and grants. The FDL is responsible for identifying and researching potential strategic needs, opportunities and grants, including but not limited to processing applications, writing, tracking, obtaining, and maintaining all reporting requirements for the grantors. The FDL is responsible for handling correspondence, special projects and direction of all aspects of fundraising planning and grant initiatives, including but not limited to program matrix, deliverables, leading project teams and managing budgets with CEO, Finance Director and Board of Directors. The FDL works closely with the CEO, Human Recourse Committee (HRC) and Directors of the Board to research, identify, initiate, and manage all aspects of appropriate fundraising plans and grants to support STP’s mission, goals and direction as set forth by the Board. The FDL will be an integral part of fundraising as it relates to STP foundation development and grant funding, including but not limited to identifying appropriate measures of success to effectively move towards the foundation development goals and grant funding. The FDL shall identify the needs and opportunity to develop grants, initiate and implement services for the homeless population.

The above and following statements for the position of FDL reflect some specific responsibilities considered necessary to describe only some functions of the job as identified, and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the duties required that might be inherent in the position. The FDL will implement and provide any and all other requests requested by the HRC and the Board of directors.

The FDL person will research and may collaborate with consultants, if necessary, to assist writing proposals, reports and grants for city, state, federal government, private foundations and all applicable corporation RFP’s. Manage and plan fundraising and grant eligibility and processing, including but not limited to the monitoring and activities guidelines. Work closely with CEO on the effectiveness of existing pre and post plans and award periods, assist in developing fundraising, and grant process improvements. Work closely with all STP services to determine accurate needs assessments. Evaluate the coordination, implementation, and delivery of fundraising campaigns and grants between the program service areas, including monitoring trends, metrics and dashboards. Work closely with the CEO, Finance and HR Committee, Board of Directors to develop new strategies for foundation development and grant funding both short and long term.

Program Leadership: Leadership, Management, Accountability:

Provide guidance and direction as an STP representative for foundation development and grant-funding programs.

Responsible for researching and identifying all possible funding opportunities for all STP services and collaborate with all internal and external constituents to develop, write, submit, and manage funding campaigns and grants to all government agencies, foundations, corporations and other funding sources available to meet the goals of STP mission and Board direction.

Be a representative of the STP Corporation in the capacity of foundation development liaison and grant funding for external audiences, including local health care agencies, providers, government agencies, elected and non-elected officials and foundations.

Develop plans, organize and implement community coalitions and activities. Develop collaborations with other non-profits, community leaders, organizations, and activities.

Identify opportunities for increased effectiveness of funding programs and providing solutions to ensure meeting all grant goals.

Monitor and guide programs to ensure performance goals (qualitative and quantitative) of all foundation development and grant agreements, contracts and obligations are met and ensure accountability to overall agency program goals.

Ensure all fundraising campaigns and grants are practical, reasonable and cost effective for the STP staff to implement and to accomplish all of the funding and grant-reporting requirements and deliverables.

Work closely with the CEO, HRC and Board of Directors to obtain prior approval of all fundraising campaigns and grants before submission.

Administrative:

1. Serve as a liaison for all fundraising campaigns and grants with agreements as appropriate and allowable by grantors.

2. Take lead in development of the Scope of Work for funding capacity building and training with special projects.

Work with administration to ensure all funding and grant goals outlined in the requirements are translated into program team goals and staff responsibilities.

Responsible for accuracy, timelines, and the general integrity of all STP’s foundation development and grant agreements.

Analyze and measure the effectiveness of existing pre- and post-award processes and develop sustainable, repeatable, and quantifiable fundraising and grant process improvements.

Work closely with the CEO and Finance Director to ensure compliance with all fundraising and grant contracts and budgets.

Foundation Development Planning:

Develop and execute new growth directives that are practical, reasonable, and cost effective for STP staff to accomplish.

Ensure Health Center and other services’ funding plans reflect and support agency overall strategic objectives.

Oversee the Health Centers and other services funding and grant programs monitoring processes and all reporting dashboards.

Evaluate and monitor trends, metrics and dashboards.

Oversight and Performance Management:

Ensure that all funding and grant-related programmatic systems operate in a coordinated, practical, cost effective, and efficient fashion in support of STP’s scope of projects and strategic goals.

Ensure funding program processes are maintained, and accurate records within departments are in accordance with State and Federal Standards, including California Department of Health Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, the Bureau of Primary Care and other related agencies

Partnerships and Agency Support:

Cultivate partnerships with schools, government healthcare agencies, non-profit and private health care providers and other partners that are practical, reasonable, and cost effective to ensure strong relationships are maintained at all program levels.

Work with senior leadership to advance funding and grant goals and initiatives by strengthening existing alliances and building new relationships with for-profit and non-profit organizations that have more to offer than direct funding streams.

Oversee the coordination, integration, and delivery of all funding and grants, contracts and related services, promoting collaboration, communication, and accountability between program areas and ensuring that the expectations of funders, partners, and other stakeholders are consistently met.

Work with Finance Directive, CEO, HRC, and the Board and other directors as applicable to develop annual funding program revenue goals and plans to diversify and increase organizational budget through a comprehensive strategy of revenue generation.

Prepare monthly reports including plans, accomplishments and challenges for executive management team to the Board of Directors, Finance or Human Resources Committee as required or requested.

6. Any and all other duties as assigned by the Finance or Human Resources Committee and/or Board of Directors.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Promote Vision and Mission: Capacity toeffectively promote STP’s mission and vision, internally, as well as with the broader community.

Innovative Management: Ability to bring forward creative ideas and suggestions; always looking for better/more efficient ways to improve practical process and systems; facilitate and participate in effective brainstorming; capacity to project how potential ideas may play out in service delivery.

Stakeholder Focus: Dedication to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external stakeholders; acquire first-hand stakeholder information and use it for improvements in programs and service; talk and act with stakeholders in mind; establish and maintain effective relationship with stakeholders to gain their trust and respect; ensure stakeholders feel they have been listened to; establish credibility quickly.

Ability to Prioritize: Spend time and the time of others on what is important; identify and act on critical issues; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminate or navigate around roadblocks.

Communication: Be a warm person with excellent communications skills who enjoys social interaction and is socially adept in a positive and constructive way. A person with a genuine pleasant disposition, interested in collaborating with colleagues and meeting new people to cultivate productive and long lasting partnerships and relationships. A person assertive, approachable, polite, good listener, confident, empathetic, cooperative, kind, positive, team oriented, understanding and thoughtful.

Performance: Some metrics, on a regular basis, set forth by the HRC and the CEO, to establish the effectiveness of the foundation development, fundraising and grant acquisitions will be the following. Review of the revenue generated, number of grants researched and identified number of grant submissions, partnerships and relationships cultivated, pending revenue and grants, number of campaigns scheduled and completed, and scheduled planned events. The above reflect only some specific metrics and ways performance will be reviewed and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the metrics used to determine the performance inherent in the FDL position.

SALARY RANGE: Starting from $65,000-$80,000 per year DOE

SCHEDULE:Monday-Friday 8a-5p

Work Location: On-Site

EDUCATION:

· Bachelor’s degree in business administration, non-profit management, public administration or related field

· Minimum 3-5 years of experience in grant management

· Experience in grant compliance, proposals development and budget management

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Strong organizational and project management skills

· Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders

· Proficient in Microsoft office suite

· Experience working with grants management software is a plus

· Previous experience writing grants for Federal Qualifying Health Center (FQHC) preferred

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $65,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Santa Ana, CA 92701: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Fundraising: 3 years (Required)
• Grant writing: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

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