About Pursuit

Our mission is to create economic transformation. By training low-income adults to launch and advance careers as software engineers, we help our Fellows go from earning $18,000 to over $90,000 starting salary on average, adding an estimated $2M in lifetime earnings. Pursuit partners with leading companies like Blackstone, USV, Citi, Peloton, and Uber to employ Fellows in career-defining engineering roles and supports them with on-the-job training to ensure potential translates to performance. Since 2013, Pursuit has created ~$1B in total lifetime wage gains, creating lasting economic mobility that spans generations. 

Pursuit’s proven solution is built on two interconnected components: training (which includes community development, Core pre-job training, and Commit on-the-job training) and a financial product (known as Bond). However, growing training alone will not meet the magnitude of need nor solve new societal challenges ahead. The typical expectation is to expand our training to other cities, but this will not come anywhere close to creating good jobs for millions of low-income Americans. Instead, our strategy for scaled impact is to evolve our financial product and create tools for other organizations, jobs, and places. We believe that this will not only create good jobs for millions of low-income Americans but will also generate a new trillion-dollar market directly tied to results in the long term.

We are One Big Team

The passionate and collaborative team at Pursuit gives its all to achieve our mission. And it’s not just staff. We work with employer partners that love hiring our Fellows because they are so well prepared, ranging from big financial firms to scrappy startups, and everything in between. We also activate and engage hundreds of volunteers that come from all areas of the tech industry.

As the Government Grant Administration Manager, you will be responsible for:

  • Government grant compliance: Pursuit actively applies for and receives funding from federal, state, and local granting agencies. These agencies each have their own compliance requirements, reporting cadences, and eligibility criteria. As the grants administration manager, you will manage all aspects of pre-and post-award compliance including government systems, technical application requirements, reporting, and reimbursement, and so on.
  • Managing timely reporting for all active grants: Pursuit receives funding from a variety of philanthropic and government sources. These funders have different priorities, KPIs, and definitions for programmatic success. This role will manage reporting due dates and timelines, working closely with relationship managers and program teams to accurately portray Pursuit's performance and submit reports.
  • Grants processing and closeout: Post-award, you will be responsible for processing grant awards by securing the necessary signatures for the grant agreement, sharing financial information for collections, and distributing acknowledgment letters upon receipt of funds.
  • Post-award relationship management: The Grants Administration Manager will be responsible for managing ad-hoc inbound requests for additional information regarding grant performance and compliance, as requested by leadership.

More specifically, you will:

  • Project manage and spearhead reporting against and compliance with multiple already won government funding opportunities, including capital and operating grants. 
  • Project manage new federal, state, and local grant applications with an eye and emphasis on compliance with grant requirements to ensure Pursuit’s submissions are eligible for funding.
  • Prepare compliance documentation and manage government systems for government funding opportunities, including systems such as SAM.gov, login.gov, and state/city reporting systems.
  • Support the development of future government funding applications by filling out forms such as federal form SF-424, CD-511, and other federally required documentation.
  • Work closely with Finance and Capital Projects teams to manage the reimbursement process for capital projects and ensure that expenditures are for eligible costs.
  • Support ad hoc requests from the City Council and other discretionary funding opportunities.
  • Work closely with External Affairs to research future discretionary funding opportunities from legislators at the City and State level.

Who you are:

You’re an expert grants administrator with experience navigating many complex applications, grant systems, and post-award processes. Ideally, government grants—local, state, and federal—are your specialty. Detail-oriented and organized would be an understatement. You are focused on minimizing enterprise risk through compliance with government grant requirements. You thrive on figuring out systems and requirements, ensuring those requirements are met, before we apply, as we move to contract, and throughout the grant period. You turn budget acquittals and standard reporting templates into works of art. You blend uncompromising analysis with savvy interpretation. You’re passionate about enabling social impact by ensuring compliance. You’re collaborative and diplomatic. You value diversity.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of grants administration experience—full life-cycle, from application to post-award management—with government grant compliance experience *required*. 
    • Experience related to the management and execution of publicly financed capital projects is a plus.
  • Expert project management abilities.
  • Highly skilled and comfortable creating budgets and navigating reimbursement processes with Finance teams, internally.
  • Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
  • Ability to proactively take initiative, raising potential concerns regarding ongoing grants management with leadership and key stakeholders as needed.
  • Strong alignment with Pursuit’s mission to create economic transformation for those who need it most.
  • Experience and fluency with government grant systems, Salesforce or other CRMs, and various funder reporting portals. 
    • Ideally, experience with:
      • NYC, NY State, federal government grant systems
      • Government processes: MWBE procurement, 2 CFR 200 procurement, reimbursements, environmental review, contract, and registration process to secure award
      • Types of grants: Operating and Capital

Where you’ll work: 

  • On site, 3-4 days per week in our Long Island City Office. Remote Fridays!

Compensation & Benefits:

The range for this role is 105k-115k, plus incentive compensation based on team and organizational goals.

The compensation range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.  If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.

Pursuit offers: 

  • Great culture where transparency, respect, teamwork, and kindness are valued
  • Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus and a full benefits package
  • 401k Match
  • Unlimited PTO and an all-Pursuit summer break the last week of August and a week-long holiday the last week of December
  • Flexible, hybrid work schedule with catered lunches once a week and delicious snacks
  • An opportunity to work at the intersection of tech and social impact, and make a direct impact on the communities of those we serve.

Pursuit values diversity: 

Our team has a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization. We welcome new perspectives and affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.

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