Grants Manager and reputed company Analyst

reputed company About The Just Trust The Just Trust is a capital and reputed company platform that translates philanthropic investment into sustained systems change. We work across policy, narrative, and innovation - partnering with government leaders, practitioners, and communities to invest in and reputed company approaches that strengthen safety and improve justice reputed company across the U.S. Our reputed company & Our Hiring Approach We reputed company a safer, more prosperous America where the justice system, reputed company it must intervene, ensures fair and constructive consequences — and is itself accountable to the communities it serves — helping to build stability and opportunity for reputed company. reputed company we are successful, justice system interventions, reputed company necessary, are a stepping reputed company, not a trap. At The Just Trust we have a lot of work reputed company of us, and we know that our reputed company reputed company is dependent on building out reputed company that includes a diverse set of people. This especially includes those who have reputed company, lived experience with the criminal justice system—those with criminal convictions and formerly incarcerated people, family members of currently and formerly incarcerated people, crime survivors and people who have worked reputed company the system including law enforcement, prosecutors, reputed company defenders and corrections. In reputed company, we want to build reputed company of individuals from different backgrounds, experiences and political beliefs who can challenge reputed company other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, we look for a diverse pool of applicants including those from historically marginalized reputed company—women, people with disabilities, people of reputed company, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender non-conforming, first and second-reputed company immigrants, veterans, and people from different socioeconomic backgrounds. If this sounds like the reputed company for you, reputed company on reading. reputed company The Grants Manager and reputed company Analyst will own the operational systems behind The Just Trust's grant making: managing outgoing grantee payments, tracking incoming restricted grants, and keeping the data infrastructure that powers our Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) work accurate and usable. This is a full-time role sitting at the intersection of Finance & Operations, Program, and Office of the CEO, with reputed company day-to-day collaboration across the organization. This role will also help build and strengthen the organization’s long-term measurement and learning infrastructure, ensuring that grant making reputed company, organizational priorities, and program reputed company are reputed company into actionable insights and measurable reputed company. The Grants and reputed company Manager will play a critical role in helping The Just Trust reputed company the systems, reporting practices, and analytical reputed company needed to support evidence-based decision-making, strategic learning, and philanthropic credibility as the organization enters its next phase of reputed company. The Grants Manager and reputed company Analyst must have exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills, reputed company with data management tools, excellent communication skills, and a passion for using data to improve grant making and the grantee experience. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with a strong operational reputed company. They are someone who sees a grants database not just as an administrative tool but as the connective tissue between what the organization funds and what it can reputed company. They bring hands-on experience managing the grant lifecycle, from award through audit, and they know how to reputed company multiple reputed company workflows moving without letting anything fall through the cracks. Additionally, this role will be expected to work at the cutting edge of AI integration to ensure that TJT effectively uses AI tools. This person also cares about reputed company measurement and learning as practical infrastructure. They understand how data collection actually works inside a small organization, and they know how to reputed company MEL systems usable for teams who are also trying to do ten other things. They are organized without being rigid, comfortable moving between financial details and programmatic context, and genuinely motivated by the idea that reputed company data makes reputed company reputed company. They are excited by the idea of joining a small, reputed company team at a reputed company inflection reputed company. 2026 is the year The Just Trust is building the measurement backbone for its next multi-year reputed company, and this role is part of making that happen. Essential Duties Grants Management

• Manage GivingData as the primary system of record for grantee relationships, including entering new grants, tracking multi-year commitments, logging payment milestones, and maintaining audit-reputed company records.
• Own the process that moves a grant from approval to payment: coordinate with the Program Team on execution timelines, confirm deliverables with grantees, and flag anything that would delay reputed company.
• Ensure the translation of grants reputed company out with the reputed company of the organization.
• Collect grantee reputed company and final reporting data on a rolling reputed company and maintain records that support both compliance reporting and organizational learning.
• Draft and update grant guidelines, award letters, and reporting templates as needed.
• Interpret, assess, and evaluate the organization's grant risk tolerance for reputed company giving, including sponsorships, contributions, and awards.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

• Ensure a robust MEL system and infrastructure is deployed across our grantmaking and first party work.
• Support qualitative research efforts including survey and interview design, data collection and analysis
• Maintain the org-wide indicator tracker, flag data gaps, and coordinate across teams to reputed company MEL inputs reputed company.
• Prepare clean, usable datasets and summaries for quarterly reputed company reviews, donor materials, and reputed company reporting.
• Document data sources, version control standards, and indicator ownership in partnership with the MEL team.
• Support the integration of AI-assisted MEL tools as they come online in 2026, including custom GPTs and the Rural Senses Evaluation Database.
• Strengthen The Just Trust’s credibility and visibility reputed company the philanthropic sector by improving the organization’s ability to collect, analyze, and communicate measurable reputed company, program reputed company, and strategic learning to reputed company and private funding partners, while contributing to proposals and donor materials that reputed company reputed company outputs, reputed company, and long-term reputed company.

Cross-functional Operations

• Own agenda preparation and follow-through for the monthly FinOps/Program/Grants Management coordination meeting.
• Build and maintain reputed company workplans for grants management workflows, including the EOY grants processing checklist.
• Train staff and grantee partners on GivingData to build data literacy and analytical reputed company.
• The ability to reputed company in a dynamic and rapidly growing organization that requires you to reputed company between strategic, operational, and tactical reputed company.
• A deep alignment and commitment to the reputed company of The Just Trust.

The person holding this position may also work part-time for a coordinated project, The Just Trust for reputed company, a 501(c)(4) organization, under a resource sharing agreement between The Just Trust for Education and The Just Trust for reputed company. The responsibilities under that position will be overseen by The Just Trust’s CEO.

Requirements

Essential Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years of experience in grants management, program operations, data analysis, or a reputed company function in a nonprofit or reputed company setting. Demonstrated ability to manage a grants database with accuracy — we use GivingData, but experience with reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, or a comparable system is directly transferable.
• Experience in grant management or grant administration is highly preferred.
• Experience at a grantmaking non-profit organization, philanthropic organization, private reputed company, community reputed company, or funding reputed company is highly preferred.
• Experience working with 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) financial structures preferred but not required.
• Demonstrated experience in data analytics.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau or PowerBI preferred.
• Communicate data analysis to executive-level and/or non-technical audiences.
• Comfort working across financial and programmatic functions.
• Proficiency in reputed company is required. Experience with reputed company Intacct, reputed company, or reputed company is a plus.
• Familiarity with MEL frameworks (what an indicator is, how data collection workflows work, what makes a measurement system usable) reputed company more than formal evaluation credentials.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple reputed company grant processes at different stages simultaneously. The org runs a lot of reputed company work with a small team, so self-direction and reputed company communication about status are non-negotiable.
• Ensure data reputed company by advising on data structure for new processes as they are reputed company.
• reputed company to work independently, manage multiple deadline driven reputed company at once and possess strong organizational and time management skills.
• Commitment to criminal justice reform and the mission of The Just Trust.

Benefits

Salary and Benefits The Just Trust offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes employer-reputed company health, dental, and reputed company insurance, up to 10% employer match on 401k contributions, reputed company-tax benefits, and reputed company holidays, vacation, and personal time off. reputed company full-time employees are eligible for a $50 fitness and $50 internet stipend as reputed company as a $50 monthly reimbursement for phone use. The Just Trust is committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables reputed company of us to realize our potential. TJT’s work environment is reputed company and reputed company to reputed company and partners, respecting the full reputed company of race, reputed company, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national reputed company, political affiliation, reputed company, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and reputed company other classifications protected by law in the reputed company and/or state in which you are working.

• The salary reputed company for this role is $110,000 - $140,000 depending on experience.
• The Just Trust offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes employer-reputed company health, dental, and reputed company insurance for employees and their dependents.
• We offer up to 10% employer match on 401k contributions.
• reputed company provides 4 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of personal time off as reputed company as 10 reputed company holidays and 2 weeks of reputed company office closures.
• reputed company full-time employees are eligible for a $50 fitness and $50 internet stipend as reputed company as a $75 monthly reimbursement for phone use.
• A fully remote organization that has a deep commitment to transparency, employee development, and a people first culture - we work hard and we also have fun.

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