Specialist, Operations & Regrant Administration

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone — regardless of income, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ZIP code, immigration status, or disability status — has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.  

CBPP combines rigorous research and analysis, strategic communications, and effective advocacy to shape debates, affect policy, and inform effective implementation both nationally and in states. It works closely with a broad set of national, state, and community organizations to design and advance policies that promote economic justice; improve health; broaden opportunity in areas like housing, health care, employment, and education; and lower structural barriers for people of color and others in communities that continue to face systemic barriers to opportunity. CBPP promotes policies that will build a more equitable nation and fair tax policies that can support these gains over the long term. CBPP also shows the harmful impacts of policies and proposals that would deepen poverty, widen disparities, and worsen health outcomes.  

To advance these goals in the states, CBPP co-founded and continues to coordinate and convene the State Priorities Partnership (SPP). Together, SPP organizations have more than 400 staff across 42 organizations. The body within CBPP that supports the SPP network is the State Fiscal Policy (SFP) team, which comprises approximately 40 high-caliber staff across six separate subteams. SFP is a dynamic team that influences state policy debates by producing timely, credible, and accessible research; messaging complex issues in clear and compelling ways; and delivering this analysis into the hands of lawmakers, media, grassroots organizations, and other partners who can help mobilize change.  

CBPP seeks a full-time Operations and Regrant Administration Specialist to join SFP’s Operations Planning and Initiatives (OPI) subteam. This position provides an exciting opportunity for a detail-oriented nonprofit professional with a passion for supporting state advocacy work through grantmaking, financial tracking, and operations support to help CBPP meet its State Fiscal Policy goals and support other teams at CBPP in their regranting projects.  

The Operations and Regrant Administration Specialist will support the operations of delivering approximately $10 million in annual regranting to nonprofit partner organizations, facilitate approximately 80 annual consultant contracts for the SFP team, and ensure the accuracy of expense tracking processes within the SFP team, in alignment with the expectations of the Senior Director of SFP’s OPI subteam and CBPP’s Development and Finance teams. The Specialist will join the six-person OPI subteam, which supports the division’s senior leaders and five other SFP subteams whose staff provides consulting, coaching, resources, and technical assistance to meet the SPP network’s and each organization’s policy and advocacy goals.  

Responsibilities: 

Regranting Operations: 

• Track grant allocations for regranting in close coordination with the Senior Director of OPI, as well as CBPP’s Finance and Development teams, to ensure compliance with grantor restrictions, CBPP’s budget expectations, and regrant project objectives.
• Document grant allocations, regrants, and entity documents in Salesforce, ensuring quality control and reconciliation with Finance reports.
• Execute the internal regrant approval processes using Salesforce in accordance with compliance guidelines to minimize organizational risks, ensure legal/lobbying compliance, and operationalize collaborative regranting processes that reflect SFP strategy and regrant project priorities under the guidance of the Senior Director of OPI.
• Coordinate the signing of grant award letters via DocuSign by both the authorizing Vice President and the regrantee’s authorized signator; submit letters in CBPP’s Accounts Payable system with accurate coding (in the case of SFP regrants) or