Grants Manager and Impact Analyst

About The Just Trust

The Just Trust is a capital and strategy platform that translates philanthropic investment into sustained systems change. We work across policy, narrative, and innovation - partnering with government leaders, practitioners, and communities to invest in and scale approaches that strengthen safety and improve justice outcomes across the U.S.

Our Vision & Our Hiring Approach

We envision a safer, more prosperous America where the justice system, when it must intervene, ensures fair and constructive consequences — and is itself accountable to the communities it serves — helping to build stability and opportunity for all. When we are successful, justice system interventions, when necessary, are a stepping stone, not a trap.

At The Just Trust we have a lot of work ahead of us, and we know that our collective success is dependent on building out a team that includes a diverse set of people. This especially includes those who have direct, lived experience with the criminal justice system—those with criminal convictions and formerly incarcerated people, family members of currently and formerly incarcerated people, crime survivors and people who have worked within the system including law enforcement, prosecutors, public defenders and corrections. In addition, we want to build a team of individuals from different backgrounds, experiences and political beliefs who can challenge each other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, we look for a diverse pool of applicants including those from historically marginalized groups—women, people with disabilities, people of color, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender non-conforming, first and second-generation immigrants, veterans, and people from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

If this sounds like the place for you, keep on reading.

The Opportunity

The Grants Manager and Impact Analyst will own the operational systems behind The Just Trust's grant making: managing outgoing grantee payments, tracking incoming restricted grants, and keeping the data infrastructure that powers our Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) work accurate and usable. This is a full-time role sitting at the intersection of Finance & Operations, Program, and Office of the CEO, with close day-to-day collaboration across the organization. This role will also help build and strengthen the organization’s long-term measurement and learning infrastructure, ensuring that grant making strategy, organizational priorities, and program outcomes are translated into actionable insights and measurable impact. The Grants and Impact Manager will play a critical role in helping The Just Trust develop the systems, reporting practices, and analytical capacity needed to support evidence-based decision-making, strategic learning, and philanthropic credibility as the organization enters its next phase of growth.

The Grants Manager and Impact Analyst must have exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills, fluency with data management tools, excellent communication skills, and a passion for using data to improve grant making and the grantee experience. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with a strong operational instinct. They are someone who sees a grants database not just as an administrative tool but as the connective tissue between what the organization funds and what it can prove. They bring hands-on experience managing the grant lifecycle, from award through audit, and they know how to keep multiple open workflows moving without letting anything fall through the cracks. Additionally, this role will be expected to work at the cutting edge of AI integration to ensure that TJT effectively uses AI tools.

This person also cares about impact measurement and learning as practical infrastructure. They understand how data collection actually works inside a small organization, and they know how to make MEL systems usable for teams who are also trying to do ten other things. They are organized without being rigid, comfortable moving between financial details and programmatic context, and genuinely motivated by the idea that better data makes better decisions.

They are excited by the idea of joining a small, focused team at a real inflection point. 2026 is the year The Just Trust is building the measurement backbone for its next multi-year strategy, and this role is part of making that happen.

Essential Duties

Grants Management

• Manage GivingData as the primary system of record for grantee relationships, including entering new grants, tracking multi-year commitments, logging payment milestones, and maintaining audit-ready records.
• Own the process that moves a grant from approval to payment: coordinate with the Program Team on execution timelines, confirm deliverables with grantees, and flag anything that would delay close.
• Ensure the translation of grants going out with the impact of the organization.
• Collect grantee progress and final reporting data on a rolling basis and maintain records that support both compliance reporting and organizational learning.
• Draft and update grant guidelines, award letters, and reporting templates as needed.
• Interpret, assess, and evaluate the organization's grant risk tolerance for all giving, including sponsorships, contributions, and awards.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

• Ensure a robust MEL system and infrastructure is deployed across our grantmaking and first party work.
• Support qualitative research efforts including survey and interview design, data collection and analysis
• Maintain the org-wide indicator tracker, flag data gaps, and coordinate across teams to keep MEL inputs current.
• Prepare clean, usable datasets and summaries for quarterly strategy reviews, donor materials, and board reporting.
• Document data sources, version control standards, and indicator ownership in partnership with the MEL team.
• Support the integration of AI-assisted MEL tools as they come online in 2026, including custom GPTs and the Rural Senses Evaluation Database.
• Strengthen The Just Trust’s credibility and visibility within the philanthropic sector by improving the organization’s ability to collect, analyze, and communicate measurable outcomes, program impact, and strategic learning to public and private funding partners, while contributing to proposals and donor materials that clearly articulate outputs, outcomes, and long-term impact.

Cross-functional Operations

• Own agenda preparation and follow-through for the monthly FinOps/Program/Grants Management coordination meeting.
• Build and maintain Asana workplans for grants management workflows, including the EOY grants processing checklist.
• Train staff and grantee partners on GivingData to build data literacy and analytical capacity.

• The ability to thrive in a dynamic and rapidly growing organization that requires you to flex between strategic, operational, and tactical levels.
• A deep alignment and commitment to the vision of The Just Trust.

The person holding this position may also work part-time for a coordinated project, The Just Trust for Action, a 501(c)(4) organization, under a resource sharing agreement between The Just Trust for Education and The Just Trust for Action. The responsibilities under that position will be overseen by The Just Trust’s CEO.

Requirements

Essential Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years of experience in grants management, program operations, data analysis, or a related function in a nonprofit or foundation setting. Demonstrated ability to manage a grants database with accuracy — we use GivingData, but experience with Foundant, Fluxx, Blackbaud, or a comparable system is directly transferable.
• Experience in grant management or grant administration is highly preferred.
• Experience at a grantmaking non-profit organization, philanthropic organization, private foundation, community foundation, or funding collaborative is highly preferred.
• Experience working with 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) financial structures preferred but not required.
• Demonstrated experience in data analytics.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau or PowerBI preferred.
• Communicate data analysis to executive-level and/or non-technical audiences.
• Comfort working across financial and programmatic functions.
• Proficiency in Excel is required. Experience with Sage Intacct, Salesforce, or Asana is a plus.
• Familiarity with MEL frameworks (what an indicator is, how data collection workflows work, what makes a measurement system usable) matters more than formal evaluation credentials.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple open grant processes at different stages simultaneously. The org runs a lot of concurrent work with a small team, so self-direction and clear communication about status are non-negotiable.
• Ensure data quality by advising on data structure for new processes as they are built.
• Able to work independently, manage multiple deadline driven projects at once and possess strong organizational and time management skills.
• Commitment to criminal justice reform and the mission of The Just Trust.

Benefits

Salary and Benefits

The Just Trust offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance, up to 10% employer match on 401k contributions, pre-tax benefits, and paid holidays, vacation, and personal time off. All full-time employees are eligible for a $50 fitness and $50 internet stipend as well as a $50 monthly reimbursement for phone use.

The Just Trust is committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. TJT’s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.

• The salary range for this role is $110,000 - $140,000 depending on experience.
• The Just Trust offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents.
• We offer up to 10% employer match on 401k contributions.
• Our company provides 4 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of personal time off as well as 10 paid holidays and 2 weeks of paid office closures.
• All full-time employees are eligible for a $50 fitness and $50 internet stipend as well as a $75 monthly reimbursement for phone use.
• A fully remote organization that has a deep commitment to transparency, employee development, and a people first culture - we work hard and we also have fun.