The Conservation Grants Associate coordinates operational activities for the grants program at Rainforest Trust. The position is responsible for reviewing grant applications, distributing grants and awards, requesting and reviewing reports from grantees, researching, gathering and maintaining information about the grantees, and developing internal and external reports.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Specific duties include, but are not limited to:

• Communicate regularly with external project implementers to ensure delivery of key project objectives and adaptively manage projects as necessary.
• Review and approve grantee reports and other documents and request payments.
• Generate appropriate reports for internal use by maintaining accurate project portfolios.
• Draft grant agreements for review.
• Collate and share information from regular communications and quarterly reports in a timely manner to support outreach and fundraising efforts.
• Ensure agreement activities are implemented as stated in an application’s objectives and activities.
• Identify potential problems with project implementation and seek solutions.
• Identify any gaps in partner capacity and seek solutions.
• Maintain complete project records.
• Distribute grants and awards.
• Encourage grant proposals from existing partners that further programmatic goals.
• Ensure regular updates are presented to the rest of the organization.