Grant Program Senior Officer

What We Need

Cascade Bicycle Club (CBC) is seeking a strategic, highly organized, equity-driven, and collaborative leader to serve as the Grant Program Senior Officer. Reporting to the Education Director, the Grant Program Senior Officer will steward one of the most significant statewide active transportation education investments in Washington by providing senior leadership for a 15-year, approximately $216 million WSDOT-funded statewide bicycle education grant program.

This senior role holds primary responsibility for managing CBC’s operational relationship with WSDOT, translating agency expectations into clear program requirements, coordinating grant-funded implementation efforts across internal teams, directly supervising two Program Officers, and ensuring that statewide program design reflects both ground-level realities and the legislative intent behind the grant.

This role will support and help facilitate strategic roundtable meetings with WSDOT involving the Education Director, Executive Director, and Finance & Operations Director to ensure unified organizational messaging and shared oversight. Crucially, the Grant Program Senior Officer will also exercise sound judgment in identifying when issues should be elevated to senior leadership.

The Grant Program Senior Officer provides the critical connection between statewide implementation and state oversight, ensuring that Program Officers can focus on portfolio management, quality assurance, and operational execution while the Senior Officer takes on strategic interpretation, escalation, and diplomatic communication with WSDOT.

Who We Are

Cascade Bicycle Club, the nation's largest statewide bicycle nonprofit, is 9,500-members, 56-years old, and 51-staff strong, serving bike riders of all ages and abilities throughout the state of Washington. We teach the joys of bicycling, advocate for safe places to ride, and produce community rides and events. Our signature programs include the Seattle to Portland ride, the Pedaling Relief Project, advocacy for connected trail networks and on-street bike networks in Seattle and across the Puget Sound Region, Your Streets Your Say, Free Group Rides, Adult Classes, Let's Go, and the Major Taylor Project.

Washington Bikes promotes the health, safety, environmental, and economic benefits of bicycling. We advocate for people who bike, endorse political candidates, and hold officials accountable. We collaborate with community members and public officials to shape policies and investments in active transportation that create equitable, sustainable, and thriving communities across Washington state.

Our Values:

• Equity - We lead with a racial equity lens to eliminate inequities in community health outcomes and in mobility and transportation access. Bicycles are a tool for liberation.
• Climate Justice & Clean Air - Bicycles are clean, healthy, and an affordable solution to help solve the climate crisis, clean our air, reduce transportation pollution, and create sustainable communities.
• Community - We create opportunities for people to come together by removing barriers and fostering a sense of belonging. Bicycles are an integral part of creating connected, equitable and thriving communities.
• Safety - Safety is a right; we champion spaces that foster physical and emotional wellbeing.
• Collaboration - We share power, resources, and knowledge as a means to enrich lives and form mutually beneficial partnerships. We celebrate the existing strengths of our partners and participants and seek to be an accessible asset for others.

For a detailed description of the organization and its programs, please visit http://www.cascade.org or http://www.wabikes.org

What You’ll Bring

Duties and Responsibilities

Grant Program Management & WSDOT Liaison

• Serve as CBC’s primary operational liaison to WSDOT for all aspects of the statewide bicycle education grant program, ensuring consistent communication, clarity, and responsiveness.
• Coordinate with the Education Director, Executive Director, and Finance & Operations Director on issues that require senior-level attention, ensuring that CBC’s response to WSDOT reflects organizational alignment and shared decision-making.
• Represent CBC in routine meetings, contract clarifications, and program-level discussions with WSDOT, while escalating strategic, political, or high-impact matters to senior leadership as appropriate.
• Contribute to and help facilitate quarterly strategic roundtables with WSDOT involving CBC’s senior leadership team to ensure clear governance, shared oversight, and proactive issue resolution.
• Interpret and translate WSDOT expectations, legislative mandates, and contract requirements into actionable internal guidance for Program Officers, Partnership Managers, and other CBC teams.
• Exercise balanced judgment in determining when to seek clarification, offer recommendations, or elevate concerns around agency guidance—while ensuring full compliance with all contractual requirements.
• Communicate clearly and diplomatically with WSDOT regarding statewide program successes, challenges, risks, and design considerations.

Program Oversight, Reporting & Accountability

• Provide oversight for the statewide education grant program, including both pass-through grants and direct-cost investments such as bike fleets, trailers, and educational materials.
• Synthesize statewide data, trends, risks, and implementation insights surfaced by Program Officers into coherent reports and shareouts with WSDOT.
• Oversee and guide preparation of all official WSDOT reporting, ensuring timely, accurate, and comprehensive submissions.
• Partner with Finance & Operations on shared budget ownership, financial compliance, procurement planning, and long-range forecasting.
• Assess statewide program risks and determine appropriate pathways for mitigation, including escalation to WSDOT or internal leadership.
• Ensure statewide implementation remains aligned with contract requirements, legislative intent, CBC’s values, and equity commitments.

Leadership of the Grant Administration Team

• Provide direct supervision to the Program Officers (In-Class and Youth Development).
• Establish clear expectations, support professional development, and foster strong alignment across the grant administration team.
• Guide Program Officers as they supervise Partnership Managers, ensuring consistent quality monitoring, partner coaching, and readiness for issue escalation.
• Promote an inclusive, collaborative, equity-centered team culture grounded in accountability, clarity, and shared purpose.
• Lead or co-lead the development and refinement of workflows, tools, and performance metrics that define high-quality statewide implementation.

Cross-Department Collaboration

• Partner with department leadership to ensure alignment between grant-funded strategies and CBC’s direct program delivery.
• Collaborate with Finance & Operations on procurement planning, timely statewide distribution of instructional materials, and fleet management.
• Work with internal and external evaluators to support data collection, analysis, and continuous improvement processes that inform statewide strategy.
• Participate in or co-lead cross-functional workgroups advancing the success of the WSDOT-funded initiatives and CBC’s educational mission.

Stakeholder Engagement & Strategic Representation

• Represent CBC in selected statewide convenings, coalitions, cross-agency groups, and high-level outreach contexts, in coordination with the Education Director and other senior leaders.
• Support senior leadership by synthesizing field-level insights and risk trends for use in quarterly strategic roundtables with WSDOT.
• Serve as a bridge between Program Officers’ implementation analysis and senior leadership’s strategic decision-making relating to WSDOT communications and negotiations.
• Ensure that stakeholder feedback—including that of partners, educators, and districts—is incorporated into statewide program strategy.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work respectfully with individuals from diverse backgrounds and communities.
• Exceptional project and program management skills within complex, multi-stakeholder systems.
• Highly organized and capable of managing long-term projects, short-term deadlines, and multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to communicate diplomatically with government partners.
• Demonstrated political and relational judgment; able to advocate, negotiate, and draw boundaries with clarity and professionalism.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize data and field-level insights into actionable recommendations.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace and project management tools.
• Deep commitment to racial equity, social justice, and community-centered program design.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in grant administration, public-sector contracting, or government-funded program management.
• Experience serving as a primary liaison or point of contact for a major funder or public agency.
• Proven staff supervision and team leadership experience.
• Experience managing complex, multi-million-dollar budgets, including both pass-through and direct costs.
• Background in youth development, public education, public health, transportation, or a related field preferred.
• Passion for bicycling, mobility justice, and the mission of Cascade Bicycle Club.

Job Details

This position is full-time exempt and remote-hybrid eligible. Generally, work can be done off-site, provided there is no loss to team collaboration, the needs of the organization, and the essential functions of the position. Residence in Washington state and the ability to come into the office one to three days a month are required. Some weekend and evening work may be required. Typical weekly hours for this position are 40 hours.

Cascade Bicycle Club is on a journey to becoming an anti-racist organization. We strongly encourage applications from people who have historically been underrepresented in the bicycle industry, advocacy, and nonprofit work.

Cascade is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to diversity, racial equity, and inclusion. Cascade does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, genetic information, marital status, record of arrest or conviction, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination. We strive to have a diverse board, staff, and volunteer base that is reflective of the communities we serve. This position is subject to reference checks and the completion of a background check. Cascade will consider qualified applicants for employment pursuant to the Seattle Fair Chance Employment Ordinance and Washington State Fair Chance Act.

Covid-19 Vaccination Requirement

If hired, you will be required to submit proof of vaccination.

Hiring Timeline

Estimated date of hire for this position is March 1, 2026. Application review will begin January 5, 2026.

Cascade offers a robust benefits package, which includes:

• Employer-sponsored health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Optional long-term disability and additional life insurance coverage
• Option to contribute to a health and/or dependent care FSA
• 401k with 5% employer matching
• 160 hours of paid time off front-loaded annually + 12 paid sick days + 12 paid federal holidays
• Office-wide paid winter recess between December 25 and January 1
• 4 weeks paid parental leave after one year of employment
• ORCA transit pass
• $60 monthly cell phone stipend
• Free entry and guest pass on most Cascade rides
• Abundant discounts and offers with retailers and partner organizations
• Beautiful open office workspace with fresh airflow and bright natural lighting.
• Option to sit or stand with individual, adjustable motorized desks.