Associate Director of Programs (TUC –SU)

About The University Corporation

The University Corporation is a non-profit auxiliary corporation providing commercial and administrative services to California State University, Northridge. Our mission is to provide services and solutions that address the needs of California State University, Northridge; to support the academic, research, and creative endeavors of its students, faculty, and staff; and to enhance the quality of campus life. https://www.csun.edu/tuc

 

Mission:

Ending Abuse, Empowering Families, and Developing Leaders

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

1) Grant, Contract and Foundation Identification, Application submission and Post-Award Compliance: Participates in the identification, writing, budget development, and submission of all proposals for funding and maintains relationships with donors/funders. Coordinates the submission of grants and contracts in collaboration with CSUN Research and Sponsored Projects, ensuring all deadlines and documentation requirements are met; and provides strong internal controls to ensure all requirements detailed in grant objectives/scope of work are met, second-tier subawards are executed and all progress reports are submitted in a complete and timely fashion; Coordinates all grantor site visits, audits and technical reviews with CSUN, The University Corporation and other appropriate internal departments and programs.

 2) Growth: Carries out strategies aimed at identifying, qualifying, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding new foundation prospects and private donors; serves in a fundraising capacity for StrengthUnited amongst alumni, corporations, foundations, donors, prospects and other constituents; works in consistent alignment with CSUN fundraising guidelines and works with the Executive Director in priority areas; cultivates and solicits a portfolio of prospects and supports the Executive Director in their individual efforts; develops a culture of philanthropy amongst staff; ensures a culture of gratitude and timely, authentic and specific acknowledgment to all donors; and conducts center tours.

3) Relationship Building/Maintenance: In partnership with the Executive Director, build and facilitate strategic partnerships to enhance StrengthUnited’s mission and vision, demonstrate entrepreneurism in the development of new programming and sources of revenue, represent the community and create a strong, visible presence and awareness of the organization through a multidisciplinary approach across government (elected and bureaucratic), funder and nonprofit circles.

4) Program Compliance: In coordination with the Associate Directors of intervention and prevention programs, ensures that post-award grant administrative compliance is maintained; Translates and implements grantor regulations into operational policies that are disseminated to the corresponding departments; analyzes grant productivity through review of monthly reports to ensure grant deliverables are being met.

 5) Data management; construct and maintain a secure HIPAA compliant framework for ingesting, storing, mining and archiving data for the purpose of monitoring program outcomes and trends, grant/funder and executive team reporting

 6) Quality Assurance: ensure high levels of service delivery, documentation and evaluation standards are met through inspection, detection and resolution activities; and supervise, assist, and coordinate Quality Assurance Staff

 7) Policies and Procedures Development:  Reviews, revises and develops new policies in accordance with the principles of trauma informed care and in accordance with contract compliance.

8) Coordinates with Associate Director of Accounting and Finance: Ensures grant spending’s are planned and expended in accordance with grant and master budgets, ensures appropriate staffing and time allocations are aligned with grant/contract requirements, and incurred costs are reasonable and in compliance with applicable regulations.

9) Strategic Planning: Assists in strategic thinking and development of strategic plans.

10) Other duties as assigned.

 

Qualifications: 

Must possess a Master’s Degree from an accredited institution in Business Administration, Health Administration, and Public Health or Public Administration.

 

Knowledge, Specialized Skills, and Abilities:  

Must have a minimum of 5 years working in grant management for a non-profit entity. Must have excellent leadership in working with staff, funders and communit