• Assist Program Director and Program Officer in maintaining relationships with SRI philanthropic clients, grantees, and community members in a positive, professional manner.
• Manage logging, classifying, data entry, tracking, and responding to letters of inquiry, proposals, and grants.
• Handle administrative functions including preparing and proofreading correspondence, reports, and other documents for philanthropic clients.
• Assure appropriate due diligence procedures are in place and utilized, including use of IRS determination letters, identifying organization’s exempt classification status, and special provisions or limitations.
• Utilize MicroEdge GIFTS database for proposal processing and reporting.
• Coordinate development, preparation and distribution of board meeting packets.
• Respond to audit verification, state and federal registration, surveys and other general foundation inquiries.
• Attend board meetings as required to take minutes.
• Heavy volume of filing, maintain philanthropic department filing system.
• Generate reports and request grant checks from Finance Director.
• Respond and refer telephone and written inquires.
• Continually improve and update grants management procedures; keep procedures manual current.
• Other as needed by philanthropic clients.

• Bachelor’s degree
• Strong interpersonal, organizational and communication skills, including verbal and written
• Ability to organize and attend to detail with a high level of accuracy
• Ability to work with a diverse group of people, independently and in teams, with the capacity to complete tasks in a timely and efficient manner
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Proficiency in MS Word and Excel; strong aptitude for learning new and/or specialized software programs
• Experience with GIFTS for Windows preferred
• Previous foundation or nonprofit experience helpful

Brad Kruse
Program Director
SRI
342 Fifth Ave. N.
Bayport, MN 55003