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The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.  

Position Highlights:

POSITION TITLE:  Grants Manager 

LOCATION: Hybrid – Massachusetts (Boston)

POSITION END DATE: 06/30/2025

SALARY:  up to $80,000 (plus benefits)

OVERVIEW

The CDC Foundation seeks a Grants Manager to support the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Division of Pregnancy, Infancy and Early Childhood to support the fiscal and contracting needs required of current grant funded activities within the Division. The Grants Manager will support DPIE’s leadership with developing, maintaining, and managing the grant funded program’s budget and fiscal monitoring activities at both the state and local level. Fiscal monitoring activities will include annual budget plans, local agency contract plans, including amendments, and monitoring, spending forecasts, and fiscal reporting and oversight for federal funding within DPIE programs. 

DPIE Vision and Mission 

The purpose of DPIE is to promote physical, social and emotional well-being and resilience in communities and families by fostering healthy environments in pregnancy, infancy and early childhood which are trauma-informed and healing centered. Using a racial, social and economic justice lens and life course approach, we provide 1) direct services through home visiting, making referrals and connection to community services; 2) build the capacity of parents to nurture their children and ensure the health, well-being and social connectedness of their families; 3) conduct evaluation, research, and continuous quality improvement; and 4) support policy and systems development. Specific strategies include engaging families, communities, state and federal partners; implementing high quality evidence-based and evidence-informed home visiting for families disproportionately experiencing adverse outcomes; improving community and state level data quality, analysis and effective use; supporting policies and initiatives that promote family wellness and economic opportunity; building MCH workforce capacity; enhancing public awareness of the needs of the MCH populations, and strategies including programs, policies and initiatives to address these needs; and strengthening fiscal sustainability of our programs and initiatives. 

Key Populations: 

DPIE serves all pregnant and parenting people and their families in Massachusetts communities that disproportionately experience poor physical and emotional health outcomes. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

•7+ years grants management and administration experience

•Bachelor’s Degree required

•Knowledge of the grant’s management cycle design, monitoring and evaluation

•Excellent communication, interpersonal, representation and negotiation skills

•Excellent analytical and writing skills

•Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion, be adaptable to various competing demands, and demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and response

•Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

•Forward looking thinker, who actively seeks next challenge and proposes solutions

•Excellent management skills, including organizational and time management skills

•Ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced environment

•Ability to travel for grant monitoring purposes

•Proven track record of consistently meeting performance metrics

RESPONSIBILITIES 

•Provide consultation and technical assistance to jurisdiction staff and subcontractors on all aspects of grants and cooperative agreements management.

•Oversee and ensure that project plans are developed, and execution is in accordance with grant requirements and organizational priorities.

•Implement efficient day-to-day operations to deliver a superior level of performance and productivity.

•Responsible for grants and contracts award administration, including the reviewing and monitoring of individual grant awards for compliance with private, local, state and federal funder requirements.

•Advises jurisdiction leadership on the status of the grant award when necessary.

•Attend grant review and update meetings and provide administrative information in person, as needed.

•Develop and negotiate budgets and grant narratives with applicable jurisdiction staff and the funders, when applicable, to ensure costs, proposed activities and outcomes are reasonable, allowable, and allocable using Federal regulations, policies, and procedures.

•Participates in funder specific conference calls and meetings, when needed.

•Organizes, prioritizes activities in order to meet grant award objectives.

•Ensures that jurisdiction colleagues assigned to the grant award have the proper resources needed to complete the assigned work, monitors status of work in progress and ensures activities, deliverables and outcomes have been completed.

•Consults with project staff to assist with complex/problem situations and provide technical expertise.

•Provides progress and activity reports to jurisdiction leadership.

Special Notes: 

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by both the CDC Foundation and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in order to best support the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in their public health programming.

This position is currently a hybrid position. CDC Foundation retains the right to make adjustments to this as required. 

The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment. 

Relocation expenses are not included. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.

We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.

The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.

Relocation expenses are not included.