Grants and Funds Specialist

About Us:

LearningMate is a technology company offering domain expertise in teaching and learning solutions - leveraging digital, cloud, process automation, data, and strong learning design principles. For about two decades, LearningMate has been working with education institutions across the globe to help them build, deploy, and streamline their digital infrastructure. Through our powerful mix of products and services, we are proud to help lead the world into a future where education is accessible, affordable, and effective. Since 2001, we have grown to employ more than 1,000 full-time associates spread across the globe and serve a global clientele of education publishers, traditional and nontraditional EdTech companies, K-20 schools, universities and career colleges, government agencies, non-profits, corporate training, and education consortia.We have our global presence in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada and in India we are headquartered in Mumbai (Maharashtra) and also have our office in Kolkata.

About the Role

available funds such as state and local funds

Responsibilities

• Creating, enhancing, managing, disseminating, and implementing a wide array of internal and external funding resources across the public and private sectors.
• Oversight and enhancements to team's operating procedures, established databases, resources, tools, and other project implementations while increasing the automation and swift delivery of resources to internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitoring and updating internal/external project requests, databases and related project and performance dashboards.
• Researching and qualifying grant opportunities and applications for education partners.
• Supporting the development of funding collateral including guides, toolkits, presentations and other resources.

Qualifications

• Two-year college, technical degree or equivalent from accredited university.
• Bachelor's degree in education, marketing, business, finance or relevant field and 8+ years of experience in K-12 education market strongly preferred.
• Experience in grants (public or private sector), federal administration, purchasing, procurement, government affairs, legislation, policy or other related position or experience strongly desired.

Required Skills

• Keen attention to detail and highly organized with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines.
• Exceptional technical writing, analytical, and strategic thinking skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated, results-driven with a high level of initiative, independence and embodies a sense of urgency.
• High adaptability and flexibility, including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity, projects and overall change.
• Expertise in business software applications and design (such as Microsoft Office applications, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe, PowerBI, Smartsheet, CRM systems, etc.) is highly desired.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in grants management and funding strategies.
• Familiarity with educational policies and funding mechanisms.

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity in our hiring practices and encourage applications from all qualified individuals.