Job Description

Join a dynamic team dedicated to transforming communities across King County by leading a group of skilled grant professionals. As the Lead Grants Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of recreational programming, aquatic center upgrades, land acquisition, and other key initiatives, which will have a lasting impact through strategic investments in our region’s vital community priorities.

In this role, you will play a crucial part in enhancing park and recreation access by managing multiple grant programs and fostering strong collaborations with grantees for contract execution, payments, and closeouts. You’ll oversee a dedicated team of grant staff, ensuring adherence to procedures, improving processes, and handling compliance with federal funding requirements. Additionally, you’ll consult with King County offices on risk management and legal reviews, while supporting the grant application and evaluation processes. Your leadership will drive continuous improvement and ensure seamless operations within a dynamic grants environment. This position performs work remotely and onsite.

About the Team:
The Parks Division of the Department of Natural Resources and Parks connects community and jurisdictional partners with grant funding opportunities that increases and improves access to parks, recreation, and open space throughout King County.

The Parks Community Investments and Engagement Unit provides grant funding for a variety parks and recreation portfolios including programs, land acquisition, and capital projects. There are multiple grant programs housed in this unit which are: Aquatic Facilities; Parks Capital and Open Space; Open Space – River Corridors; Healthy Communities and Parks Fund; Youth and Amateur Sports Fund Grants; and Community Partnerships & Grants.

Commitment to Equity, Racial and Social Justice: King County, named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is a diverse and vibrant community that represents cultures from around the world. Our True North is to create a welcoming community where everyone can thrive.  We prioritize equity, racial and social justice, making it a foundational and daily expectation for all employees. As a Lead Grants Manager you will actively apply these principles in all aspects of your work. Learn more about our commitment at http://www.kingcounty.gov/equity.

Apply now for a rewarding career at the Parks Division of King County Department of Natural Resources & Parks (DNRP). Join our talented workforce in protecting and restoring the natural environment and promoting more resilient, sustainable, and equitable communities.  Enjoy training, comprehensive benefits, and growth opportunities.

Job Duties

What You Will Be Doing: 

• Supervise and Mentor Team: Oversee a team of grant managers, serve as a mentor, and assign and manage workload.
• Grant Management and Compliance: Manage a portfolio of grants, ensuring adherence to standard operating procedures and policies, including compliance, closeout, audits for federal grants. Track inactive grants.
• Grantor/Grantee Relationship: Facilitate smooth interactions between grantors and grantees throughout the grant lifecycle, from award to final reporting. Resolve any issues that arise.
• Communications Management: Handle politically sensitive inquiries, coordinate communications for the grant portfolio with Council staff, grant managers, and grantees.
• Coordination with Finance and Other Offices: Liaise with the Parks Finance team on contracting and invoicing, consult with King County offices on risk management and legal reviews, and manage escalated business decisions with Parks management.

Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills

Qualifications You Bring:

• 5 or more years of experience with grantmaking including grant program development, contract development and execution, invoicing, and policy compliance.
• Experience supervising with skills in directing the work of professional staff.
• Experience applying equity and social justice principles that exemplify shared values, behaviors, and practices to all aspects of the work and work environment.
• Highly effective oral and written communication.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with a variety of multi-disciplinary partners.

Competencies You Bring:

• Optimizes Work Processes: Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Decision Quality: Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-modal communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

It Would Be Great if You Also Bring:

• Experience with government grantmaking.
• Skilled at managing relationships with stakeholders including cities, tribes, community-based organizations, nonprofit and grass-roots coalition partnerships, and/or public entities.
• Experience with contract development and management.
• Experience in developing program(s) from inception to completion.

How to Apply

Supplemental Information

• Remote and Onsite Work Details: Employees in this role work remotely from a home location, with onsite reporting requirements typically 2 times per month. The frequency of onsite work is determined by business needs and may be adjusted accordingly. Onsite reporting locations may be at various King County worksites including the collaboration space at King Street Center (201 S. Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98104). This work arrangement promotes work-life-balance and reduces carbon footprint under the department’s vision of Green Where We Work.
• Remote Work Location Requirement: Employees must reside in Washington State and be within a reasonable distance to King County worksites to meet onsite reporting requirements.
• Work Schedule: This full-time position works a 40-hour work week. This position is exempt from the overtime provision of the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) and is not overtime eligible. The typical work schedule for this position is anticipated to be Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with some flexibility to the start and end time.
• Application and Selection Process: We welcome applications from all qualified applicants. We value diversity, diverse perspectives and life experience and encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Application materials will be screened for clarity, completeness and alignment with the experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skills essential for this role to determine which candidates may be invited to participate in one or more panel interviews.

• Complete Application
• Resume
• Cover Letter

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 100,000 and above.

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