Grants Compliance Manager job in N/A

Why Next Street?

Want to work at the intersection of impact and business? Looking for a team with big ideas and bold ambitions? Interested in accelerating your career, and getting further faster by working at a scalable small business?

You have found your place – Next Street is a mission-driven, for-profit firm creating a better future for small business. We have audacious goals, and we are looking for team members who can dream big with us. Next Street was founded in 2005 with the belief that small businesses are the engines of inclusive growth in underserved markets. This philosophy is at the core of everything that we do. Next Street mobilizes capital, customers, and capabilities to small businesses and entrepreneurs that have been systemically held back. We work with foundations, government, corporations, and CDFIs.

We serve as trusted advisors to some of the country’s most dynamic organizations. We equip our clients with strategies and tools to advance small businesses and deliver a more inclusive US economy.

We are an anti-racist and anti-bias institution. Learn more about our commitment here: https://nextstreet.com/racial-equity/.

We believe Next Street is a special place to work:

• We are a group of critical thinkers and problem solvers. We work hard to get our clients the right answer, because we are successful when our clients create more impact.
• We are motivated by mission. We keep small business at the heart of what we do, and agitate for equity and inclusion, day in and day out.
• We respect and challenge each other. Our teammates come from the best professional services and social sector organizations. We learn from each other constantly.
• We push ourselves to innovate. We must think creatively and expansively to solve tomorrow’s economic and community development challenges.
• We take pride in our work, strive for excellence and work with integrity. This is more than just a job to us.

We believe in a better future for small business. Join Us.

Why this role?
Next Street is hiring a part-time Grants Compliance Manager to strengthen Next Street’s contracting, reporting, and auditing processes to ensure compliance with an existing multi-million dollar government contract as well as future contract opportunities. Next Street is looking for an experienced professional well-versed in grant compliance best practices to develop our nascent compliance capabilities. This role will be responsible for executing financial reporting for Next Street and its partner organizations, managing single or program specific audit requirements, documenting policies and procedures for the current fiscal year contract, and driving the contracting process for the next fiscal year funding. The existing contract will be funded in part by federal Coronavirus Relief Funding and so applicants with experience working with CARES act funding are preferred.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about compliance, enjoys building new functions and is looking for long-term leadership opportunities. This role will be part-time (15 - 20 hours / week) through the end of the year (December 2021), with high likelihood to extend and potential to be our first full-time compliance hire with the role evolving beyond a focus on government-based contracts. Depending on candidate interest and experience, this role may be given the opportunity to create thought leadership and advise partners on their compliance capabilities.

This role will work in close partnership with the project delivery team and Next Street’s Finance + Administration team. Experience with US federal, state, and regional government contracting with multiple non-profit and / or for-profit partners is required.

Your work will consist of:

• Policy documentation: Document policies and procedures to comply with contract terms
• Partner monitoring: After policies are in place, aggregate and review data to check partner compliance. Identify additional monitoring requirements and corrective actions, as needed
• Monthly financial reporting: Manage monthly financial reporting process; aggregate and quality check financial reports from Next Street and partner organizations, flag issues and facilitate meetings to review and finalize reports
• Contracting: Manage contracting process for multi-million dollar regional government contract for FY 2022; review terms of contract to ensure ability to comply and manage firm’s legal exposure
• Audits: Oversee execution of audit(s) required for government contracts; ensure timely, compliant execution and provide data required for partners to execute their respective audits
• Other compliance-related duties as requested (can range from cash flow projections to close out of contracts)

Why you?

• Bachelor’s degree with 6-8+ years of experience in grant compliance function
• Experience managing compliance for US federal, state, and regional contracts
• Experience establishing and executing compliance functions, including reporting and policy documentation and management

Next Street is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or Vietnam era, or other eligible veteran status, or any other protected factor.