Board Member - Grants Committee Director

MISSION & EXPECTATIONS
Our mission at KIDS Initiative is to focus on helping to facilitate sustainable solutions in developing countries to enrich the lives of children. We can only focus on doing so when our team on the ground are driven, passionate, and innovative. We focus on developing genuine and impactful relationships with those we work with, which allows us to work cohesively as a team. We look to recruit a diverse group of individuals willing to dedicate their time to our mission and help to grow our organization into an efficient machine whose goal is to strive for a world where everyone lives more and suffers less.
In applying to work with KIDS Initiative, you adopt and exude the following characteristics:
-Dedicated, Committed, and Passionate about the overall mission to enrich the lives of children.
-Values the qualities necessary to strive in relationship building.
-Respectful in all areas and methods of communication.
-The drive to be Innovative, Independent, and to take Initiative.

The role of the Grants Director is to perform research to determine potential funding sources, apply for grants, and manage expectations and reporting required through funders.
-Research, identify, and apply for grant opportunities to support our programs and projects and/or internal operations.
-Research opportunities to identify potential stakeholders who may sponsor KIDS Initiative as part of their ESG goals.
-Assist with identification of organizations who may have projects or connections to stakeholders that KIDS can support.
-Manage relationship, execution (in conjunction with Program Evaluation Director), and reporting for all grants.
-Maintain, manage, and steward relationship with MCIC as a member.
-Coordinate regular team meetings (i.e., monthly, or as otherwise determined by lead) to manage and gauge progress of all committee members.
-Monthly report to the board on all committee actions and goals.

QUALIFICATIONS & KEY COMPETENCIES
-Expertise in development of evaluation plans, logic models, and monitoring plans.
-Understanding, willingness to learn, how to apply locally culturally relevant measures of success, understand abilities to collect data at the project level, while complying with funder requirements.
-Ability to coach and work with project partners in a supportive, nonprescriptive manner, while still staying on track for evaluation requirements.
-Expertise applying evaluation at a community or small organization level.
-Ability to adapt.