ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
National Children’s Alliance (NCA) is the national association and accrediting body for Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs). Formed in 1988, NCA has been providing support, technical assistance, and quality assurance for CACs, while serving as a voice for abused children for more than 30 years.
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
The National Children’s Alliance (NCA) is committed to a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within our staff, board, and Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) movement. A diverse, equitable, and inclusive movement is critical not only to achieve a just and welcoming work environment for our workforce and partners: it also impossible to effectively serve children and families across this country without a movement of agencies and professionals that reflect them and understand their needs. As the national association and accrediting body for CACs, NCA is committed to achieving universal access to CAC services for children in every community in America and is uniquely positioned to ensure CACs both have the resources they need to truly serve America’s diverse population and also that their accreditation with us requires that they do so equitably and inclusively.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Senior Program Associate, Grants Management is a highly effective program associate, who acts as a team leader, providing supervision and guidance to a small team of Program Associates. This position is also responsible for administering and overseeing their own assigned grant portfolio, providing a full scope of programmatic and fiscal assistance to the NCA subrecipients. The position works cooperatively with other NCA personnel and will report to the Coordinator of Grants Management.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Leads and supervises an assigned team of program associates, providing guidance and support.
- Assists team members with complex and escalated issues in a timely manner.
- Identifies areas for process improvement and implements strategies to optimize team efficiency.
- Provides training to newly hired program associates and existing program associates who require additional support.
- Ensures that necessary documentation and training is available to the team to support services and processes.
- Manages a grant portfolio and executes excellent oversight on the qualitative/programmatic and fiscal management of the grants.
- Consistently shows excellent outcomes of any internal, independent external and DOJ audits.
- Builds successful relationships with grantees through providing in-depth grants consultations.
- Assists with DOJ and NCA board reporting, annual planning, and budgeting processes, as needed.
- Supports the Director and Coordinator in the ongoing projects and specific tasks as assigned.
- Attends required and recommended professional training to support professional and technical development to excel at performing duties.
- Serves as an engaged and involved team member, supportive of the varied experiences, and perspectives of internal and external colleagues.
- Provides quality customer service to internal team, NCA members and external partners.· Works within the team and among teams to ensure that decisions are made to further the organization’s goals.· Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge and Skills Required
- Experience in managing and reconciling grant portfolios and providing technical assistance, at least two (2) years of experience preferred.
- Experience as a supervisor or in a leadership role preferred.
- Extensive knowledge of federal grant regulations.
- Project management experience, including organization, delivery, evaluation, and reporting.
- Knowledge of the Child Advocacy Center/Multi-Disciplinary Team model helpful.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with strong organizational abilities and comfort collaborating with diverse professionals.
- High energy and passion for National Children’s Alliance’s mission is essential.
- Proven capacity to multi-task and flexibility in shifting priorities based on changing work needs.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team and work independently.
- Proficiency in using Blackbaud Grantmaking.
- Proficiency in using Microsoft products, particularly SharePoint and Excel.
Work Environment/Physical Effort·
- This work is primarily sedentary.
- Local and domestic travel required as needed.
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 15 pounds.
- COVID-19 vaccination and boosters required. Reasonable medical or religious accommodations considered.