Grants & Corporate Giving Manager

Description

Are you looking for a job that has impact and meaning? We have just the opportunity for you on our collaborative, supportive team! This is a job where every day is different and you will see individuals grow and succeed in their own journey to belong.

Orion Industries offers services that strengthen our community so that every individual has an opportunity to access a career. We offer hope and create paths to employment through building esteem, mentoring, training, education, community services and successful businesses. Every day we know we are part of something important. Revealing the potential in every person, and uplifting people experiencing barriers to employment.

Orion Industries is seeking a Grants & Corporate Giving Manager to take our fundraising initiatives to the next level. If you are passionate about the non-profit space, and thrive on identifying means to assist individuals seeking a career path, we are the place for you!

Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a long-range grant and outreach strategy to identify, cultivate, solicit and secure major gift prospects in collaboration with the Vice President of Services.
• Manage and achieve the Training and Employment fundraising budget and revenue projections in concert with key staff.
• Directly responsible for foundation and corporate identification, research, grant writing, reporting, and stewardship.
• Identify and seek funding opportunities for special projects.
• Serve as a key staff member to develop community relationships that will promote Orion’s visibility and create opportunities for programs and funding.
• Design, produce and distribute all fundraising related communications, including online and offline strategies for newsletters, brochures, giving days, and annual reports.
• Ensure that data related to all relationships, grants, funders and individual prospects are recorded and tracked in electronic files; manage record keeping, evaluate progress toward goals, prepare periodic reports on relationships and fundraising; recommend revisions to the outreach and fundraising plan, as needed, to meet goals.
• Ensure documentation and execution of donor acknowledgement, stewardship and public recognition, as appropriate.
• Participate in individual solicitations as appropriate.
• Other related duties as assigned.
  
  

Requirements

Skills:

• Excellent ability to communicate in English, through verbal or written means.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills; capable of working effectively with senior management, leadership, staff members, consultants, recipients of Orion’s services, and donors/prospects.
• Energetic, self-motivated, flexible, and adaptable; able to multi-task and work independently, witan attitude of service
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Little Green Light (LGL) donor database software, Grant seeking software, Constant Contact, Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud
• Possess a positive, professional image in demeanor and dress to meet the public.
• Thorough understanding of grant funding policies and procedures and applicable local, state, and federal regulations.
• Thorough understanding of effective grant writing techniques.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to interpret financial data and prepare budgets and financial grant reports.
• Ability to be discreet with personal information that may be needed for some grants such as employee salaries or upcoming projects.
  
  

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of fundraising experience in fundraising with a track record of success; specific experience in grant writing and corporate relations.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or commensurate experience in lieu of education
• Experience in individual giving and major gifts
• Ability to pass background check including the Washington State Department of Social and Health services background through Background Check Central Unit (BCCU)
• Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) certification highly desirable
• Possess valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle which automobile insurance.