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Director of Grants Administration

POSITION TITLE: Director of Grants Administration
ACCOUNTABLE TO: Chief Equity and Impact Officer

About Feeding Texas
Feeding Texas is a statewide network of food banks leading a unified effort to end hunger in Texas. Together with our 20-member food banks, we strive to ensure adequate, nutritious food for all Texans, improve the health and financial stability of the communities we serve, and engage all stakeholders in advocating for hunger solutions. Join us!

The Opportunity
Join our mission to fight hunger by leading the administration of our extensive public grants portfolio. As the Director of Grants Administration, you will lead a team to enhance grant management, monitoring, and compliance with the primary goals of cultivating a strong partnership with the Texas Health & Human Services Commission (HHSC) and ensuring state contracts provide robust support to food bank programs that bring food, health, and economic stability to Texans facing hunger.

In this role, you will consolidate oversight of our public-funded grants, ensuring efficient project management, streamlined processes, and timely deliverables. Collaborating regularly with state agencies, member food banks, and our Finance and Program Teams, you will play a key leadership role in our Impact Department. You will supervise a Community Resources Systems Manager and Grants Administration Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Grants Administration Oversight: Lead the administration of public fund grants, including contract management, proposal preparation, budget development, reporting oversight, and maintenance of grant management tracking systems. Function as a liaison between state agencies, member food banks, and internal stakeholders
• Team Leadership: Provide strategic leadership and collaborative supervision of the Grants Administration Team. Generate and support implementation of annual work plans, and facilitate staff contributions to team and organizational goals
• Strategic Relationship-Building, Problem-Solving, and Adaptation: Partner with funders, member food banks, and team members to identify opportunities and overcome barriers to ensure benefit to people facing hunger and responsiveness to changing conditions
• Process Management, Communication, and Coordination: Ensure clear, effective coordination and communication for grant administration across stakeholders. Support compliance, timely deliverables, and exceptional customer service. Monitor processes to advance food bank network priorities and meet funder expectations.

All Feeding Texas staff are expected to develop an anti-racist knowledge base and awareness of racial equity and racial justice strategies, participate in regular anti-racist trainings, and contribute to the development and integration of a racial justice framework at Feeding Texas.

Preferred Qualifications

• You are a seasoned supervisor and project manager who knows how to leverage processes and relationships to advance complex projects across diverse stakeholders and teams.
• You have extensive experience in public funding grant administration with a proven record of managing grants across all stages, from proposal development to contract. Familiarity with managing grant funding dispersed across a network of organizations is highly desirable.
• You have extensive knowledge on the Texas eligibility system and understand the opportunities within this system to increase access to benefits for low-income Texans.
• You have a proven track-record of aligning and negotiating grant requirements to program goals

Skills and Attributes

• You share our organizational values – Care, Equity, Integrity, Collaboration, and Innovation. Feel free to ask us about them!
• You are a strong communicator and project manager with proven ability to coordinate people through complex projects under pressure and aggressive timelines
• You are an organized, methodical leader with a knack for efficiency and trouble-shooting complex systems
• You are a relationship builder and know how to leverage the power of influence to align multiple teams and organizations around common standards. You can interact productively with our team and network of food bank staff, all while maintaining poise, humility, and humor.

Applicants should also be committed to social and racial justice, with a belief that improving outcomes for all Texans – regardless of their race, place, or class – requires intersectional solutions that correct injustices and promote equity.

Compensation
The salary for this position is $100,522. Feeding Texas offers a competitive benefits package. We strive to provide non-cash benefits that encourage a work-life balance and promote the physical, mental, and financial health of our employees and their families.

Location
Feeding Texas operates in a virtual work environment. We provide the necessary technology, equipment, and other supports to ensure a comfortable and conducive home working environment for employees. All staff must be residents of the State of Texas within 30 days of their start date. Travel is 5-10% in-state to accommodate occasional in-person meetings.

To Apply
Please upload your resume and complete a brief questionnaire here. The form will close at 11:59PM CST on Tuesday, August 27. We expect to have a candidate selected by early October with a preferred start date of end of October.

Feeding Texas is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages people with lived experiences of hunger and members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ identified people, gender-nonconforming people, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and people who speak a language in addition to English.