Pay Rate: USD $110,000.00/Yr. Why Join Us:
You believe that every person deserves a place to call home. You see that homelessness is a systemic issue and want to be a part of the solution. You are ready to utilize your talent, experience, and creativity towards purpose-driven work. You want to work alongside industry leaders to learn, implement, and pioneer best practices.
LA Family Housing is a leading non-profit agency in Homeless Services and Real Estate Development. With 40 years of experience and 17,000+ lives changed each year, we know what it takes to end homelessness. We take tremendous pride in the emergence of our staff as national leaders in innovation, best practices, and policy within housing production and homeless services. Join the fight to end homelessness and make a difference in people’s lives at LA Family Housing!
The Position:
The Director of Grants works within a team-oriented, fast-paced work environment. The Development and Community Engagement (DevCo) department is a talented, creative, and driven group of people focused on furthering the mission and values of the agency. As a senior member of DevCo, this position plays a significant role in the development and management of our private revenue growth and ensures grant proposal strategies align with and help support agency initiatives. The Director of Grants contributes to a $60 million organizational budget, including approximately $4 million in corporate and foundation grants annually. The Director of Grants leads the strategy and execution of all institutional fundraising efforts—developing compelling proposals and budgets, managing corporate and foundation relationships, overseeing grant reporting and compliance, and assessing program alignment—while partnering with the Chief Development Officer to ensure annual private fundraising goals are met and the team is successful. The ideal candidate brings exceptional writing skills, fundraising acumen, and a collaborative, proactive leadership style.

What You’ll Do:

• Leads the strategy and execution of institutional fundraising, overseeing the full lifecycle of grant proposals, letters of intent, agreements, and relationship management with private and public funders. Ensures all submissions align with LAFH’s priorities, funding needs, and long-term impact strategy.
• Partners closely with the Chief Development Officer to design and implement multi-year institutional fundraising strategies to increase revenue from private and public funders.
• Effectively manages and strengthens systems for proposal submission, grant reporting calendar, and other internal processes.
• Collaborates with Programs, Operations, People & Culture, and Finance teams to develop persuasive, outcomes-driven proposals, budgets and reports that advance funding priorities and reflect cross-departmental input.
• Translates complex program information into clear, outcomes-oriented narratives for diverse funding audiences.
• Collaborates with Data team to ensure outcome requirements are met, and to improve tracking and data around program outcomes for grants and public contracts
• Leads the grants team in building a pipeline of corporate and foundation prospects and ensuring cultivation and stewardship of institutional funders.
• Develops relationships with sources of private and public funding, and attends bidding conferences and foundation meetings as appropriate
• In partnership with leadership and program staff, prepare talking points and briefing materials for formal meetings and site visits with funders.
• Provides consistent messaging and data (including program outcome numbers) to assist with preparation of marketing materials, including brochures, newsletters and other promotional items such as website content, social media, annual reports, and more

• Leads the strategy and execution of institutional fundraising, overseeing the full lifecycle of grant proposals, letters of intent, agreements, and relationship management with private and public funders. Ensures all submissions align with LAFH’s priorities, funding needs, and long-term impact strategy.
• Partners closely with the Chief Development Officer to design and implement multi-year institutional fundraising strategies to increase revenue from private and public funders.
• Effectively manages and strengthens systems for proposal submission, grant reporting calendar, and other internal processes.
• Collaborates with Programs, Operations, People & Culture, and Finance teams to develop persuasive, outcomes-driven proposals, budgets and reports that advance funding priorities and reflect cross-departmental input.
• Translates complex program information into clear, outcomes-oriented narratives for diverse funding audiences.
• Collaborates with Data team to ensure outcome requirements are met, and to improve tracking and data around program outcomes for grants and public contracts
• Leads the grants team in building a pipeline of corporate and foundation prospects and ensuring cultivation and stewardship of institutional funders.
• Develops relationships with sources of private and public funding, and attends bidding conferences and foundation meetings as appropriate
• In partnership with leadership and program staff, prepare talking points and briefing materials for formal meetings and site visits with funders.
• Provides consistent messaging and data (including program outcome numbers) to assist with preparation of marketing materials, including brochures, newsletters and other promotional items such as website content, social media, annual reports, and mor