Grants and Operations Manager

Location: Remote; within driving distance of Manchester, MA

 

Liminality Partners advises high-net-wealth families and individuals (clients) who seek to create a greater impact with their philanthropy and to give with joy. We work with our clients to craft and implement philanthropic strategies, work through operational challenges that make it hard for them to achieve the impact they seek, and support them on issues at the intersection of family governance and philanthropy.

 

Our name reflects where our clients often are when they reach out to us: at an inflection point. The clients that we serve often have ideas and opinions about what they would like to do and how they would like to do it; at the same time, they are eager for guidance about best practices in philanthropy and ideas about organizations that are flying under their radar but making meaningful change. While the clients we serve come to questions of equity and justice from different places, they are all striving, in some way, to help repair a part of their community, their country, or our world.

 

Our Founder and CEO, Theresa Ellis, brings nearly 25 years of experience in the social impact space to the practice. Most recently, she has held appointments at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and at Dartmouth. Prior to that, she founded Common Impact, a market-changing social enterprise that was the first to systematize the engagement of talent resident in America's Fortune 500 companies to create stronger communities for all.

 

 

The Grants and Operations Manager will work closely with all members of the team at Liminality Partners but will not work regularly with our clients. In this newly created position, the Grants and Operations Manager will play an integral role in supporting the business at a time of exciting growth, while also ensuring that the grants that our clients make are processed quickly and efficiently. Our office is located in Manchester MA. While most of this work can be done remotely, we would expect the Grants and Operations Manager to be able to come to the office for one day every four to eight weeks. We also meet as a full team in person once a year for our all staff retreat, typically in mid to late fall.

 

This is a full-time, salaried position with meaningful flexibility about how that time is structured. If a qualified candidate wanted to work part-time, we also have flexibility to structure this as a 30 hours per week position. The compensation range for this position is $70,000 to $110,000. Liminality Partners also offers competitive benefits, including health insurance and generous paid time off, among other things.

 

The Grants and Operations Manager will play a critical role in meeting the grantmaking and operational demands of a growing practice, providing support to the client services team to ensure that all of the grantmaking, meeting planning, and administrative operations for clients run flawlessly. The following are specific responsibilities for which Grants and Operations Manager will be held accountable:

 

●      Providing operational and administrative support for grants management, including:

o   Preparing important grant-related documentation and ensuring accuracy of all details, including contact information, terms of financial support, and any other information pertinent to the client and/or grantee; 

o   Ensuring final execution of grant-related documentation, including obtaining signatures, circulating and storing documents;

o   Monitoring client grant payment schedules to ensure accuracy and timely completion, including updating internal records of client grant-making and coordinating payments;

o   Coordinating other client needs related to grant-making processes as needed.

 

●      Managing logistics for multi-party events and meetings. This includes understanding client needs in order to evaluate and select a venue, arrange catering and communicate dietary restrictions, manage RSVPs, follow up with prospective attendees to secure their response, arrange seating plans, and coordinate and troubleshoot logistics on site.

 

●      Prepare materials for distribution at meetings, including proofreading PowerPoint decks and memorandum, formatting documents, and coordinating printing and production of materials;

 

●      Scheduling meetings with prospective and current clients when there are many competing schedules. For the most part, the team does its own scheduling, but this is a requirement occasionally when juggling complicated scheduling logistics;

 

●      Preparing minutes from meetings;

 

●      Providing administrative support for the office, including maintaining file naming and storage functions, supporting copy editing and final versioning of documents and other materials, as well overseeing general needs of remote team and office, including computers, office supplies, etc.

 

●      Providing administrative support for various finance-related matters. The Assistant will prepare monthly invoices for clients, prepare expense reports for our CEO, and organize the expenses for our Director of Finance;

 

●      Living the values of Liminality Partners, which include serving the work, building sustainably, and advancing equity.

 

 

The Grants and Operations Manager role requires someone who has extremely strong organizational skills, a meticulous attention to detail, an ability to solve problems independently, and a strong customer service orientation. Specifically, the Assistant will be a person who has:

 

·       8 to 10 years of experience in executive support, operations management, customer service; philanthropic and/or wealth management experience is preferred. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We ask interested candidates to submit their resume and respond to the following three questions in lieu of a cover letter: 

 

●      Why do you want to work at Liminality Partners?

●      How has your past experience equipped you to help advance the work of Liminality? Please give two or three specific examples.

●      Describe your commitment to issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Please give an example of how you have brought this commitment into a community that matters to you.

 

 

Interested candidates should send materials to staff@liminalitypartners.com.