Grants Administrator

Profile

Best Buy

The Specialist for Foundation & Charitable Giving works closely with the members of the team supporting and coordinating various administrative, financial, and communication functions related to grantmaking within the Foundation and giving from the Best Buy Corporation. The Specialist provides a conduit role between the grantmaking/corporate contributions functions and other staff to ensure that giving activities are smoothly conducted.

Responsibilities

Best Buy Foundation

Sets up all board meetings (4/yr), committee meetings (12/yr; 3 cmtes quarterly), Twin Cities Fund meetings (3/yr) and prep meetings related to these bodies of work; additionally sets-up nonprofit site visits, etc.

Performs due diligence on foundation applications to ensure they are eligible prior being sent to Program Leads for Foundation grant program review

Conducts CyberGrants correspondence and ensure all BBY board members of nonprofits are communicated prior to nonprofit notification

Responds to Best Buy Foundation grant inquiries

Grants System Administration

Processes request determinations in CyberGrants and generates communication to nonprofits on all decisions. The number of applications submitted annually is 1,500 applications

Manages Impact report process and follow-up

Manages Best Buy Teen Tech Center payments beginning in FY23Q1. The number or applications submitted will be 150 and this number will continue to grow annually as we add Best Buy Teen Tech Centers

Consolidates duplicate organization as needed

Resolves grant payment issues

Troubleshoots and resolves grant application issues

Corporate Sponsorship & Donation Responsibilities

Responds to all Best Buy sponsorship and corporate donation inquiries

Performs due diligence on corporate applications to ensure the organizations are eligible before forwarding for review

Administers sponsorship and corporate donation applications tracking and follow-up

Prepares pending sponsorship/corporate donation requests and schedules monthly review meetings

Prepares check requests for approved sponsorships

Manages logo distribution and ad placements

Manages Gift Card requests/communications

Other Responsibilities

Prepares organization funding history reports for all nonprofit visits either in person or by phone

Manages and responds to Social Impact Inbox; fields requests and sends them to team members as appropriate

Maintains Foundation and corporate paper mail and handles postal mail as appropriate

Assists with prospecting/researching projects as needed

Engages in projects upon request

Basic Qualifications:

3 years Project/program management experience

5 years MS office – Word, Excel, PPT, preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

Detail oriented individual with ability to take initiative

Strong research and evaluation skills

Grant Management database

Corporate philanthropy

Solid understanding of technology and tech education programs or experience working with programs that provide programming for youth from disinvested communities

Company info

Best Buy
Website : http://www.bestbuy.com