The posting
Caring for our community starts with you. Join a team that believes everyone deserves care.
Candidates must reside within NorthLakes' service area at the time of hire and maintain residency throughout employment.
The Grants Specialist will coordinate with and support the Grants Manager to research and identify funding opportunities, write and prepare grant proposals, complete progress reports, maintain communication and relationships with internal departments and funding partners.
Salary begins at $62,283+ per year depending on experience. Based on a 1.0 FTE.
Essential Job Functions
Essential Functions of the Job: [Other duties may be assigned.]
- Support Grants Department in researching, vetting, coordinating, planning and executing the grant writing and submission process
- Complete and monitor progress reports as needed to maintain grant funding
- Coordinate with finance, data, and operation teams to ensure monitoring and evaluation of grant funded activities
- Use project management tools to document grant details, deadlines, and contacts
- Develop and maintain master files on all grant programs and projects
- Research corporate, foundation, and government sources of funding for programs or services for review by management
- Assist in managing grant the funding process
- Attend and support grant meetings
- Prioritize concurrent tasks to meet deadlines and requests to meet tight deadlines: flag obstacles and propose solutions in a timely manner
- Maintain understanding of NorthLakes mission, vision, and service area, programs, and services offered.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Bachelors degree required; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Two or more years of demonstrated experience in writing and submitting successful grant proposals and organizational communications.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in communication planning and implementation.
- Knowledge of federal grant management policies and procedures and experience in preparing and managing federal grants.
- Ability to work with and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams.
Benefit Statement
For full time and part time employees who work 24 or more hours per week we offer a generous benefits package that includes:
- Medical and dental insurance
- Employer paid group term life and disability
- Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Leave Bank
- 403(b) with a 4% employer match
Various voluntary benefits:
- Vision Insurance
- Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability
- Tuition reimbursement
- Health and Wellness reimbursement program
- Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members
- Partner of HRSA/NHSC loan repayment program
Our Mission is to respond to the healthcare needs of our communities with an integrated array of quality services and actively remove barriers to wellness.
NorthLakes Community Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check and references.
At NorthLakes Community Clinic, our organizational competencies highlight the behaviors and values that guide how we work and provide a shared foundation for performance, development, and growth throughout an employee’s career with us.
NorthLakes Community Clinic Organizational Competencies
Mission Driven - Advances the organizational mission, vision and values in executing job duties.
Customer Service - Committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets proper customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met.
Quality - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
Creativity - Generates new ideas, supports change, provides innovative solutions, solves problems creatively.
Integrity - Earns the trust and confidence of coworkers and customers through honest communication, ethical behavior and professionalism in all interactions.
Teamwork - Contributes to meeting team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, helps team to meet goals, welcomes newcomers and promotes a cooperative team atmosphere.
Self-Development - Seeks out and accepts feedback, is a proactive learner, takes on tough assignments to improve skills, keeps knowledge and skills up-to-date, turns mistakes into learning opportunities.
Job Knowledge - Understands duties and responsibilities, possesses necessary job knowledge and technical skills, maintains job knowledge current.
Communication - Understand and communicate effectively with others using a variety of contexts and formats, which include writing, speaking, reading, listening and interpersonal skills.
Dependability - Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance/punctuality requirements.
Trauma/Resilience Informed - Understands that trauma is prevalent and resilience can be cultivated and improved; and operates in a manner consistent with these principles.
