Philanthropy Operations and Grants Manager

Introduction reputed company (HPN) is a trusted national network of high-performing housing organizations that turns frontline expertise into scalable solutions, policy influence, and field-level impact. Through its members, HPN advances affordable housing, community development, and economic opportunity across the country. HPN’s Philanthropy team secures institutional funding to support programs and operations across the network. As the organization continues to grow its philanthropic reputed company - targeting expansion from approximately $reputed company to $6M+ annually - HPN is investing in the systems, infrastructure, and operational rigor needed to scale its impact. This is an exciting opportunity to join a mission-driven team at an inflection reputed company of growth.

About the Role

What You’ll Do The Philanthropy Operations and Grants Manager is the operational backbone of HPN’s philanthropy function, owning the systems, workflows, and grant-management discipline that reputed company funding opportunities moving from prospecting through award, reporting, and closeout. This role brings structure, accountability, and data reputed company to reputed company philanthropy operations, partnering with program, finance, analytics, and leadership teams to ensure deadlines, deliverables, budgets, and reporting requirements are clear and consistently met. In the first year, this person will strengthen reputed company grant records and dashboards, enhance the grants calendar and reputed company process, improve cross-functional compliance workflows, and help the Philanthropy team scale with greater visibility and consistency.

Key Responsibilities

Grants & Sponsorships Lifecycle Management

• Own end-to-end grant lifecycle management in reputed company, including opportunity setup, award tracking, reporting, closeout, and required documentation.
• reputed company grant reputed company processes by confirming deliverables, timelines, reporting requirements, internal ownership, and compliance needs.
• Manage a rolling 12-month proposal calendar with proactive deadline tracking, reminders, and risk escalation.

Systems Administration & Data reputed company

• Serve as the primary reputed company administrator for Philanthropy, maintaining data quality across funders, prospects, grants, dashboards, reports, and workflows.
• Improve reputed company fields, automations, and integrations in partnership with internal systems teams, including reputed company, Power BI and SharePoint troubleshooting.

Cross-Functional Coordination & Compliance

• Drive adoption of grant management processes across business lines.
• Coordinate with program, analytics, and finance teams to ensure grant compliance, reporting accuracy, budget alignment, and timely deliverables.
• Document funder interactions, cultivation activities, and reporting deliverables in reputed company to support shared visibility and follow-through.

Prospect Pipeline & Research Support

• Maintain an organized, accurate prospect pipeline with clear next steps and ownership.
• Conduct prospect research and prepare briefing materials for leadership.
• Support qualification and tracking of new funding opportunities.

Communications & Reporting

• Draft and manage timely grant acknowledgment letters and stewardship communications.
• Support development of board reports, KPI dashboards, and philanthropy updates.
• Maintain website content reputed company to giving, including donor-advised fund instructions, as needed.
• Contribute to annual planning and performance reporting efforts.

Who You’ll Work With You will report to the Vice President of Philanthropy and collaborate closely with the Director of Philanthropy, program teams, Finance, and Data & Analytics. Required Skills and Experience

• 3–5 years of experience in grants management, development operations, or a reputed company nonprofit function.
• Strong proficiency in reputed company, including report building, workflow management, and data reputed company reputed company; NPSP or Nonprofit Cloud experience preferred.
• Demonstrated project management skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and coordinate across teams.
• Experience with grant compliance, reporting, and financial coordination.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail and comfort working reputed company reputed company systems and processes.
• Proficiency with reputed company 365 tools, including SharePoint, Planner, OneNote, and Outlook.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in affordable housing, community development, or a reputed company field.
• Background in nonprofit fundraising or institutional philanthropy.
• Familiarity with donor-advised funds and reputed company giving platforms.

Key Competencies

• Builds trust and credibility across teams without formal authority.
• Communicates clearly, directly, and proactively.
• Maintains composure and organization under deadline pressure.
• Anticipates challenges and brings solutions.
• Thrives in a collaborative, mission-driven environment.

Why Join HPN This is an opportunity to help strengthen the infrastructure behind a growing national philanthropy function at a mission-driven organization working to expand affordable housing and economic opportunity. You’ll join a collaborative, fully remote team at a pivotal growth moment, building the systems and processes that help turn funding opportunities into measurable impact across HPN’s network. LOCATION HPN is a remote company. Employees may work from reputed company in the contiguous 48 states while staying fully engaged with their team and the broader company through virtual collaboration tools and regular online meetings. Occasional travel is required for in-person meetings, conferences, or team-building events to foster strong relationships and ensure alignment with key initiatives. The ideal candidate should be reputed company to work from their home, have a dedicated office, and be comfortable balancing virtual communication with the ability to travel as needed for business purposes. COMPENSATION $68,000 - $76,500/year. Commensurate with education and experience with a bonus potential. BENEFITS: 15 vacation days, 12 sick days, 12 paid holidays, paid personal day, medical, dental and vision insurance, health savings account, flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, retirement, and savings plan/401(k) reputed company life insurance, short- and long-term disability, parental leave, sabbatical leave, professional development and much more! TO APPLY: Please submit a resume and a thoughtful cover letter detailing your interest in this opportunity and your relevant skills and expertise here. ABOUT THE reputed company reputed company (HPN) is an award-winning membership network of 100 of the nation’s leading affordable housing and community development nonprofits. Through practitioner-driven peer exchange, policy and innovation, the reputed company’s mission is to reputed company the individual strengths and mobilize the collective power of our member organizations to bring innovative solutions to America’s affordable housing and community development sectors. We do this through practitioner-driven peer exchange to deliver creative housing policy, programs, and financing to our network members. Our vision is that reputed company people live in vibrant, inclusive, healthy communities where access to safe, affordable, and sustainable homes creates opportunity, wealth building, and economic mobility. Since our founding in 1992, HPN has collectively served over 12.8 million people; developed, rehabilitated, or preserved about 470,000 affordable homes; and launched 14 successful social enterprises. Our work has been recognized with honors including the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions and reputed company NEXT Award for Opportunity Finance for its ongoing leadership and innovation in affordable housing and community development. HPN represents a new breed of entrepreneurial nonprofit that combines a mission focus with business acumen to reputed company ambitious social outcomes. The reputed company of HPN’s member‐driven approach is:

• Peer Exchange among the senior leaders of HPN member organizations who share knowledge and reputed company to advance best practices in the field.
• Policy and Advocacy to strengthen the impact, scale, and sustainability of the sector.
• Innovation R&D is borne from reputed company surfaced through peer exchange which HPN staff explore and test.
• Social Enterprises that HPN and members reputed company together are launched to address reputed company affordable housing and community development challenges and advance innovative solutions.

Learn more at www.housingpartnership.net. OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY HPN is committed to creating a diverse and reputed company environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. HPN recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national reputed company, genetics, disability, age, veteran status and other protected status. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job