Grants Manager

Job Title: Grants Manager

Reports to: SVP, Affiliate Network

Location: Remote or Stamford, CT (with occasional U.S. travel)

Salary Range: $70,000-$80,000

Position Summary

The Grants Manager plays a critical role in advancing Keep America Beautiful’s mission by overseeing the administration, reporting, and storytelling of the organization’s grant programs. This position will centralize and manage reporting for signature grant initiatives, ensuring sponsors receive comprehensive, compelling, and timely programmatic reports that demonstrate measurable impact.

Working cross-functionally with Affiliate Operations, Programs, Regional Directors, Development, and Marketing & Communications (MarCom), the Grants Manager will support grant review and processing, oversee Community Impact grants, contribute to proposal development, and strengthen sponsor stewardship through coordinated reporting and storytelling.

Key Responsibilities

Signature Grant Reporting

• Centralize and manage reporting for Keep America Beautiful’s signature grant programs.
• Collect grant reports and impact data from affiliates and grantees, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and alignment with sponsor requirements.
• Compile affiliate submissions into cohesive, high-quality programmatic reports to be shared with corporate and foundation sponsors.
• Translate quantitative and qualitative data into compelling impact narratives that clearly demonstrate return on investment for funders.
• Develop standardized reporting templates and timelines to improve efficiency and consistency across grant programs.
• Support the Development team by summarizing broader KAB initiatives and organizational impact to fulfill corporate sponsor reporting requirements.

Grant Promotion & Impact Storytelling

• Partner with Marketing & Communications to ensure grant opportunities are promoted widely across the affiliate network and relevant audiences.
• Collaborate with MarCom to elevate stories from funded projects through blogs, social media, newsletters, sponsor spotlights, and other channels.
• Help build a storytelling pipeline that captures photos, testimonials, metrics, and success stories from affiliates and Programs to highlight the impact of funders’ investments.
• Ensure sponsors receive visibility and recognition consistent with partnership agreements.

Community Impact Grants Management

• Oversee the full lifecycle of Community Impact grants, including launch planning, communications, application processes, judging coordination, award notifications, and grant distribution.
• Coordinate closely with Regional Directors to ensure effective implementation, timely communication, and equitable review processes.
• Assist the Affiliate Operations team with grant review, evaluation, and processing.

Proposal Development & Foundation Grants

• Work in conjunction with the Development and Programs teams to develop grant components of corporate proposals, including program narratives, budgets, metrics, and reporting frameworks.
• Conduct prospect research and assist in drafting and editing foundation proposals and supporting materials.
• Ensure reporting requirements are clearly outlined at the proposal stage to streamline post-award execution.

Grants Tracking & Systems Management

• Maintain accurate grant records, reporting calendars, and deliverables in the organization’s CRM
• or grants management system.
• Monitor deadlines to ensure all sponsor reports and internal milestones are met.
• Identify process improvements to streamline grant administration and reporting workflows.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree required; degree in nonprofit management, communications, public administration, or related field preferred.
• 3–5 years of experience in grants management, grant writing, development operations, or nonprofit program reporting.
• Demonstrated experience compiling programmatic impact reports for corporate or foundation funders.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into compelling narratives.
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail.
• Experience working cross-functionally with communications and program teams.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools to support research, drafting, and data synthesis in grant development while maintaining compliance, accuracy, and organizational voice
• Proactive and strong process thinker who takes initiative to identify opportunities for improvement and implement systems that enhance efficiency and organizational effectiveness

Core Competencies

• Programmatic grant reporting & sponsor stewardship
• Impact storytelling & narrative development
• Cross-departmental collaboration
• Grants administration & compliance
• Project management & process improvement

Work Environment and Expectations

• This position can be based remotely but requires occasional travel (approximately 10%) within the U.S.
• Occasional evening or weekend work may be needed during conferences or major program events or to engage with the affiliate network
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and evolving nonprofit environment.

What You’ll Get

• A mission-driven team committed to community-based change
• Generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, retirement, and liberal PTO
• Flexible remote work culture with opportunities for professional growth

About Keep America Beautiful

Founded in 1953, Keep America Beautiful is America’s premier community improvement organization. Keep America Beautiful continues to be the most credible organization in community restoration and resiliency by focusing on public education, mobilizing volunteers and creating partnerships.

Working at Keep America Beautiful

Keep America Beautiful has embraced a remote work policy to attract the best and brightest from all over America. If you live within 60 miles of Stamford, you will also work at our national headquarters. Keep America Beautiful’s national headquarters is walking distance from the Stamford Metro-North train station with a shuttle bus also available. The office features a free parking garage and gym in the building and is conveniently located near great restaurants, bars, shopping and beautiful Mill River Park.

Persons with national service experience (VISTA, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and veterans are encouraged to apply. Keep America Beautiful is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, ancestry, marital status, being a party to a civil union, handicap or disabilities or perception of disabilities, political activity, or other protected class status. Discrimination in violation of this policy is prohibited.

To apply, please send cover letter and resume to recruitment@kab.org

Additional Benefits

You will be a member of a passionate team dedicated to the fulfillment of KAB’s mission. Just as KAB envisions a country in which every community is a clean, green, and a beautiful place to live, we also strive for our organization to be a beautiful place to work. We believe that it is intrinsic rewards that motivate employees sustainably, but respect the need for extrinsic rewards which would include but are not limited to our benefits listed here:

• Very Competitive Pay for the non-profit sector
• Generous Employee Benefits Package
• Maternity and Parental Leave
• 403b Program
• Paid Holidays

Applicable experience in the following platforms:

• Microsoft 365
• Applicable
• Salesforce