at The Young Center for Inmigrant Chrildren's rights in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights invites applicants for a Manager of Institutional Giving position to be based remotely with occasional travel to the Young Center’s office locations. The Young Center seeks to hire an experienced Manager of Institutional Giving who has a strong interest in the organization’s mission and the ability to take initiative and work collaboratively to meet our development goals with institutional funders. As a key member of the Development team, the Manager of Institutional Giving contributes to foundation and corporate institutional fundraising by working with the Director of Institutional Giving to develop high quality proposals, reports, and other grants-related communications that are consistent with the Young Center’s mission, methodology, program outcomes, and strategic direction.
ABOUT THE YOUNG CENTER
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights is a national organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights and best interests—safety and well-being—of immigrant children in the United States. Through its flagship Child Advocate Program (CAP) the Young Center serves as the federally-appointed bests interests representative for unaccompanied and separated immigrant children in federal custody. Child Advocates meet with children and learn their stories in order to identify and advocate for their best interests through an interdisciplinary, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive lens. The Young Center’s Policy Program fights for wholesale reform of the immigration system while pursuing immediate changes in policy and practice that center children’s rights and best interests in all decisions. The Technical Assistance Program (TAP), the Young Center’s newest program, offers intersectional expertise and critical resources to advocates and service providers working with immigrant children involved in child welfare and other state court systems.
The Young Center has offices in Houston, San Antonio, and Harlingen, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Washington, D.C.; Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles, California; and Grand Rapids, Michigan. We also serve children through our programs in New Jersey.?
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Learn Young Center’s programs, goals, and financial needs to develop compelling proposals, seek new funding opportunities, and report on program impact
Manage a medium-sized portfolio of prospective and active foundation relationships, including cultivating and maintaining those relationships, and submitting proposals and reports related to grants provided by those funders
Draft and finalize LOIs, proposals, and reports for institutional funders
Research prospective grants and corporate support and then cultivate relationships with well-aligned funders by identifying warm leads and reaching out to establish new relationships and generate funding.
Research, identify, develop, and respond to funding opportunities in targeted areas as well as areas of strategic interest
Collaborate across program teams (CAP, TAP and Policy) to solicit and maintain updated grant narratives
Maintain up-to-date communication with the Finance team
Participate in site visits and meetings with program officers
Support in creating quarterly updates for a more general audience including major individual donors and foundations without interim reporting requirements
Attend conferences, events, and engage in professional development opportunities as needed to grow funding network, stay current on funding trends, and gain new skills, as needed
Support the Director of Institutional Giving with forward-looking strategy and projections on the Young Center’s grants-related financials to aid in strategic planning
Work under deadlines and handle a wide variety of activities and confidential matters with discretion.
Conduct regular CRM data entry and documentation of relationships, grants and deliverables
Other duties as assigned
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS
6-7 years’ related grant writing experience with foundation and corporate grant proposals and applications
Experience working in and/or commitment... For full info follow application link.
The Young Center is an "at-will" and equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in and affirmatively factors diversity into its hiring practices. Young Center encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, ancestry, marital or parental status, pregnancy, citizenship, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, genetic information, or veterans’ status. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process; no application will be penalized for requesting an accommodation. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.
