Grant manager resume examples for 2025
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How to write a grant manager resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in grant manager-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the grant manager position.Hi, I'm Zippi, your job search robot. Let me write a first draft of your summary statement.
List the right project manager skills
Use your Skills section to show you have the knowledge and technical ability to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- Look to the job listing. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description. Take note of the skills listed for the job.
- Put all relevant hard and soft skills in your skills section.
- Be specific. If you are too broad, you may not be giving the best picture of your skills and leave the hiring manager uncertain of your abilities.
- Be up to date. Software names change and companies merge. Don't look out of touch by being careless.
- Be accurate. Spelling and even upper or lowercase can dramatically change meanings. Make sure you are correctly listing your skills.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a grant manager resume:
- Grants Management
- Financial Reports
- Oversight
- Principal Investigators
- Payroll
- Project Management
- Research Administration
- NIH
- PIS
- Proposal Development
- Public Health
- Budget Development
- Financial Management
- Grant Administration
- Technical Assistance
- PowerPoint
- Financial Analysis
- HR
- IRB
- Federal Regulations
- Management System
- Social Work
- Reconciliations
- OMB
- Data Collection
- Data Analysis
- Program Directors
- Federal Guidelines
- Proposal Budgets
- Program Development
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How to structure your work experience
Your employment history is arguably one of the most important parts of your resume. It shows you have experience and foundation in your field to successfully master the grant manager position. Here is how to most effectively structure your work experience:
- List your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order. Employers care about your most recent experience the most.
- Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
- Include only recent, relevant jobs.
How to write grant manager experience bullet points
Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.
Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:
- Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
- Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
- Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.
This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.
Here are great bullet points from grant manager resumes:
Work history example #1
Public Relations Internship
American Red Cross
- Assisted to maintain an online presence of their existing social media, including a blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- Rebuilt/maintained the national website using HTML for western division chapters and trained other chapters in web development
- Created and maintained social media platforms for the York Red Cross Chapter including Twitter and Instagram.
- Created news releases/PowerPoint presentations for disaster services.
- Created brochures and PowerPoint presentations to be used at information booths and presentations.
Work history example #2
Developer/Consultant
CarMax
- Guided this effort through complex compliance issues, producing an elegant middle-tier solution leveraging telephony and enterprise service bus technology.
- Used Git as version control software and GitHub.
- Created tables, views, stored procedures and data scripts in SQL Server 2000.
- Involved in server side development using Java, Struts and Hibernate.
- Accomplished the performance optimization for existing reports and their response time was remarkably reduced.
Work history example #3
Development Associate
Florida State University
- Used platforms like SharePoint and AccuTrack to facilitate appointment creation, appointment cancellations, and provide detailed information about appointment availability.
- Identified and built relationships with state, regional, national, and international employers for recruitment of GWSB students and alumni.
- Created and implemented annual fund strategies which included oversight of gift administration procedures and stewardship of donors.
- Coordinated quarterly advisory board meetings for prominent alumni and professionals.
- Cultivated and solicited participation in the program through staff/faculty/retiree meeting presentations and mailings.
Work history example #4
Grant Manager
CNN
- Provided oversight to the grants' recipients and provided staffing for the Ryan White Planning Council.
- Maintained and updated incentive data in PeopleSoft including company car, target bonus and management category information.
- Managed the application review process and timeline; providing detailed reviews and ratings of Request for Proposal (RFP) submissions.
- Reviewed solicitations for grants while providing comments for adequacy and completeness.
- Coordinated project activities with FTA Project Management Oversight consultants, other city agencies and transit recipients.
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Add an education section to your resume
Here is the best way to format your education section:
- Display your highest degree first.
- If you graduated over 5 years ago, put this section at the bottom of your resume. If you lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
- If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education.
- If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries from grant manager resumes:
Bachelor's Degree in psychology
California State University - San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
2004 - 2007
Bachelor's Degree in business
Ashford University, San Diego, CA
2003 - 2006
Highlight your grant manager certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.
Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your grant manager resume:
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
- Certified Research Administrator (CRA)
- Certified Security Supervision & Management (CSS)
- Certified Program Evaluator (CPE)