Foundation for California Community Colleges

Foundation for California Community Colleges

Specialist, Workforce Development, Grants Administration

California Remote

Sponsorship not specified$65k-$70kDetected 14 days ago
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About the role

  • This work is grounded in a commitment to strengthening systems connectivity, promoting career-relevant, learner-centric education and workforce solutions, and eliminating equity gaps in California.
  • Our headquarters are located in Downtown Sacramento, just blocks from California's State Capitol.
  • Budgeted Annual Salary Pay Range: $65,000.00 - $70,000.00 Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.

Responsibilities

  • WDD works in four primary areas (1) building capacity within K-12, college, apprenticeship, and workforce development systems to effectively serve learners and businesses
  • (3) providing wraparound services resource development support
  • Provides oversight of assigned awardees and projects, which may include negotiating contract scopes and budgets, reviewing invoices, monitoring fiscal and program compliance and performance, and providing one-on-support for awardees.
  • Leads program reporting and award management activities for assigned awardees and projects, including providing guidance to awardees, reviewing reports, summarizing data, and ensuring alignment with related guidance and regulations.
  • Tracks project/award specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), business development relationships, and may develop and coordinate funding application processes in collaboration with Senior Specialist
  • Strong project management skills with an ability to prioritize tasks and deliver quality products within agreed upon timeframes, with limited supervision.
  • The Specialist will focus on our WDD grants administration projects, which bring funding to awardees on behalf of state and local partner agencies.

Requirements

  • Experience with grants administration from a funder's perspective.
  • Possession of a valid California Driver's License, good driving record, automobile insurance, and a reliable personal vehicle is required.

Nice to have

  • Experience with the California Community College system and/or Workforce Development preferred.
  • Experience with project and client management software (e.g., Asana, Salesforce) preferred.
  • Experience with Excel required.

Compensation

  • Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.
  • $65,000.00 - $70,000.00
  • Budgeted Annual Salary Pay Range:

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, generous PTO, and paid holidays
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Wellness offerings
  • CalPERS retirement program and optional 403(b) and 457 Retirement plans
  • Carrot reproductive health and fertility support
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.
  • and (4) developing work-based learning models, tools, and technologies.
  • Team members are hired for their expertise in niche areas across our areas of impact and higher education overall, and for their knowledge of business, philanthropy, technology, communications, and more

Company info

  • We are committed to professional development with an emphasis on shared leadership, to ensure growth for employees and the organization overall

This listing is sourced directly from Foundation for California Community Colleges's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.