The Cost

Manager

• Prospect for new foundation and corporate funders aligned with Ocean Science Trust’s programs
• Build and maintain a grant pipeline, qualifying prospects and tracking deadlines and likelihood
• Mentor OST program leads on funder practices, grant cycles, and fundable proposals
• Build peer relationships with aligned public-foundation program officers
• Partner with program staff to identify fundable projects and match them to prospects
• Manage the complete institutional grant process from identification and proposal development through submission, fulfillment, reporting, and renewals
• Forecast grant revenue and update leadership and finance staff
• Develop proposal and award budgets with the finance team and track spending against restricted awards
• Manage a portfolio of institutional funders and maintain grant-related documents and data in Bloomerang and shared systems
• Coordinate award receipts and grant-management compliance with finance
• Serve as a contact for active and prospective institutional funders and steward funder relationships
• Research corporate prospects and develop tiered sponsorship packages
• Secure corporate sponsorships and corporate foundation grants for programs, the SeaChange Scholar Fund, convenings, and events
• Manage sponsorship fulfillment, benefits delivery, recognition, and reporting
• Review corporate partnerships against OST’s gift acceptance policy
• Collaborate with leadership, program leads, the Director of Philanthropy, partners, and finance
• Support fundraising priorities and develop the annual institutional giving budget

Institutional Giving Manager