Title: Development Manager (Full-time, Temporary)

Reports to: Chief of Development

Location: Hybrid - Massachusetts (Roxbury Headquarters)

Compensation: $40/hour 

Timeline: May-November 2025

Organizational Summary 

The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA)’s mission is to drive economic equity and prosperity for Massachusetts to achieve inclusive growth through advocacy, programming, and strategic partnerships that enable Black-owned businesses and Black communities to thrive. 

BECMA’s work is centered around our 4 pillars for closing the racial wealth gap in MA: 

• Entrepreneurship: Nurture startups and support existing entrepreneurs by providing them with access to affordable and adequate capital to launch and scale their firms.
• Placement: Focus on workforce development, particularly in Massachusetts’ high-growth industries, and placing Black professionals in decision-making roles in management and board positions.
• Commerce: Support Black business owners in selling their goods and services while helping ally buyers to meet their supplier diversity or ESG goals. 
• Ownership: Increase business owners’ equity stake in their enterprises.

As a non-profit, BECMA has grown from a concept/start-up to a $5 million+ organization. Part of the fundraising and communication strategy includes BECMA Community Investments, an entity with a dotted line reporting to the President & CEO. 

As a member based organization, our top priority is to support our members through advocacy, partnership and programming. We regularly engage with the press, hold public and members-only events throughout the year, and we also host premier annual events including BECMA’s Mass Black Expo and Annual Meeting. 

Our membership community includes Black students and professionals, Black business owners as well as partner organizations such as nonprofits, corporations, foundations, hospitals, universities, venture capital firms, insurance companies, and government agencies. BECMA members come from diverse backgrounds, united by the goal of closing the Massachusetts racial wealth gap.

Position Summary:

Grants:

• Manage administration of the grant cycle from application to closing (research grant opportunities, write and submit supporting documentation, track and complete follow up reporting), coordinating efforts across teams to support grant compliance across all levels.
•  Ensure grants or contracts are well administered and that all stakeholders are informed of relevant funder compliance regulations to support on-track, on-time, and on-budget implementation.
• Determine proper allocation of personnel to all restricted grants, follow a monthly process to inform our accounting team of those allocations, and review monthly financial reports of grant spending.
• Coordinate with operations and accounting team for proper expense coding to restricted grants, ensuring grant compliance and accuracy.
• Review and refresh internal processes for grants management as needed.
• Track and lead process of grant reporting, to ensure timely and accurate reporting. 

Contract Management 

• Manage the development, negotiation, allocation, and tracking of BECMA’s contracts
• Ensure that the Finance team has all contract documentation necessary for record keeping and invoice payment purposes

Subawards 

• Oversee the development, payment, allocation, tracking and monitoring of subawards to the organization’s strategic partners
• Liaise between subaward recipients to deliver grant funds and award letter 

Team Support 

• Assist with other Development and Finance team functions including but not limited to the following:
• Manage grant databases, including grant tracker and file system
• Support ad hoc requests from the Development and Finance Team for information and/or reports
• Support the budgeting process, create templates and one pager overviews of grants
• Other related tasks, as needed

What You’ll Need 

• Strong commitment to the BECMA’s mission and vision to build Black wealth
• Strong commitment to marginalization issues of Black people and community-based activism; high level of sensitivity to concerns of race equity and social justice matters
• 5+ years of relevant work experience required, with a strong preference for experience in support roles for a development or finance function in a nonprofit organization and/or contracts management for a nonprofit organization similar in size to BECMA
• Experience budgeting for and managing 5-8 figure philanthropic grants, including grants spread across multiple departments and cost categories
• Strong project management and organizational skills including strong capacity to manage and coordinate simultaneous projects and successfully prioritize among multiple tasks
• Strong skills in internal and external partnership engagement, including excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communications skills
• Data analysis skills relevant to nonprofit finance and/or development functions a strong plus
• Ability to think creatively and incorporate creative insights into product and process design

What You’ll Get 

This is a full-time (temporary) position with some required travel to the office located at the BECMA headquarters in Boston, MA. The compensation for this position is $40/hour and is commensurate with lived and professional experiences. 

BECMA also offers a comprehensive benefits package including: 

• 401(k) retirement plan 
• Life insurance, flexible medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family 
• Unlimited paid time off
• Office issued laptop or computer and cell-phone
• Professional development stipend

Interested candidates are encouraged to promptly submit their application through our online portal. Please email [email protected] with questions or for support submitting your application.

• As an EOE/AA employer, the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, genetic information, veteran or disability status or any other factor prohibited by law.