Institutional Giving Coordinator

Overview

Reports To: Deputy Director of Development Campaigns

Classification: Full-Time | Non-exempt

Salary & Benefits: $50,000 to $60,000. The Center offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision 401k with employer contribution, voluntary life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance, paid new parent, family care, and gender-affirming healthcare leave. We also offer a generous paid time off policy.

Schedule: Generally Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; flexibility required for occasional evenings and weekends. 

Summary: The Institutional Giving Coordinator works cross-departmentally and with external grant writing consultants to secure and maintain private foundation and government funding that supports The Center’s current work and allows for strategic growth. They will support The Center’s programs and services through timely submission of well-researched, well-written, and well-documented grant proposals for private foundations and government (city, state and federal) funding and contracts. This individual will also manage, implement and track the foundation grant budget goals as well as government funding opportunities. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with and support an external grant writing consultant to facilitate the preparation of proposals, budgets, reports and all supporting documentation for all foundation grants and government funding opportunities.
• Prepare, in collaboration with the Finance team, submission packets for all government RFPs and applications, including discretionary funding. Duties include outreach and planning with internal and external stakeholders, editing narratives, supporting budget preparation with finance staff, and following up with stakeholders to ensure that all deadlines and documentation throughout the process are met.
• Support senior staff in stewardship efforts with key foundation staff and leaders and, as applicable, government officials; prepare Center staff for related cultivation meetings and site visits.
• Research and evaluate potential sources of private foundation and public support for specific Center strategic initiatives, including multi-year support.
• Engage with program staff to develop a solid understanding of the organization’s programs, initiatives, and history to inform funding priorities and approaches.
• Work with the Data and Evaluation team and program staff to maintain relevant statistics for grant submissions and reports.
• Assist in the compliance management and reporting of all funding and contracts.
• Manage the foundation and government grants calendar, ensuring proposal and report deadlines are met.
• Keeps meticulous records of foundation relationships, submissions and awards in the Salesforce database.
• Update multiple tracking documents with pertinent information, correspondence, financial information, and documents related to funders and prospects.
• Other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent professional and/or educational experience.
• Possess a minimum of two (2) to three (3) years of experience working in a fast-paced fundraising and/or development environment with a preferred focus on foundation and/or government funding.
• Experience in database and project management platforms is a plus.
• Ability to synthesize actionable information from organizational data and internal and external feedback.
• Understanding of, and commitment to the Grant Professionals Association Code of Ethics.
• Ability to develop collegial working relationships with staff across all levels to support grant development and reporting.
• Strong editorial skills with the ability to communicate The Center’s work clearly and persuasively. 
• Ability to work with a detail-oriented lens and manage and meet deadlines.
• Ability to understand budgets and grasp general aspects of finance related to program funding requests..
• Knowledge, understanding and experience working with LGBTQ+, TGNC, POC, and Immigrant populations, including knowledge of the spectrum of gender identity, transgender issues, immigration, and POC issues.
• Understanding of, and commitment to, undoing structural and institutional racism and bias and the spectrum of gender identity and bias. Thoughtful and articulate analysis of the above, and consideration of the impacts and outcomes in decision-making processes and on underserved and historically oppressed communities as it relates to The Center’s work.
• A strong commitment to the mission of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement:

The Center is subject to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Commissioner’s Order requiring COVID-19 Vaccination for Staff in Residential and Congregate Settings from New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The Center is required to comply with this order because we have a number of contracts with New York City.

All current and new staff must either provide a one-time verification that they are fully vaccinated with either a single-dose of an FDA- or WHO-approved one-dose COVID-19 vaccine or the second dose of an FDA- or WHO-approved two-dose vaccine. 

The Center’s Commitment to Equity & Inclusivity:

The Center was born of community activism in response to the AIDS epidemic, ensuring a place for LGBTQ people to access information, care, and support that they were not receiving elsewhere. We opened in 1983 to help people who had doors constantly closed in their faces, ostracized by family, friends, and shunned by the general society. Since that time, we have continually provided a wide array of services and programs to serve our community, with an intentional focus on providing support to those who are most vulnerable. We have always taken great care to be a space that responds to community need; engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion work is another outgrowth of those ongoing efforts. We recognize that in order to help LGBTQ individuals and our diverse community achieve parity in health, justice, opportunity and success outcomes, our organization must hold a strong foundation and competency in, as well as invest organizational focus on, equity and inclusion frameworks, practices and policies. This is also true in our hiring and retention of staff.

The Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.