Careers

• ***Fundraising Operations Oversee the organization’s CRM system (HubSpot) to maintain a clean, accurate, and up-to-date database, ensuring effective tracking of relationships between contacts, companies, and funding opportunities. Lead the weekly Fundraising Funnel meetings, ensuring data accuracy and tracking all updates in HubSpot. Monitor progress and ensure actionable follow-ups. Proactively lead efforts to research, track, and validate potential funding leads, including foundations, government grants, and other opportunities. Regularly present new funding opportunities to the Executive Directors. Work in partnership with the Operations Manager to develop and implement donor engagement strategies. Assist with outreach, follow-up communications, and relationship-building efforts to enhance donor relations. Partner with the Executive Assistant to manage HubSpot data input and ensure data accuracy, particularly in relation to company and contact association labels, lead tracking, and relationship management. Generate CRM reports and dashboards to provide insights into donor engagement, lead generation, and fundraising progress. Oversee the cultivation and relationship management for key funders and connectors with the Executive Directors, ensuring regular communication and follow-up. ***Grant Writing Assist the Executive Directors with all aspects of the grant application process, including proposal writing, gathering supporting documentation, and submitting applications. Ensure compliance with all grant and funding submission guidelines and manage deadlines through award notification. Oversee the internal tracking system to ensure timely follow-up and submission of required materials. In collaboration with the Operations Manager, track and manage grant reporting requirements, ensuring that all post-award reporting is completed in accordance with the funders’ guidelines. ***Government Funding Oversee ongoing efforts related to state and federal funding sources, ensuring that all prospects are actively pursued, proposals are submitted on time, and relationships with government funders are cultivated. Manage government funding research (including Digital Equity initiatives), identifying key opportunities for the organization to secure funding in this space. Lead research efforts to identify relevant state and federal funding opportunities. Collaborate with Executive Directors and Executive Assistant to ensure that government funding prospects are tracked and moved through the Leads and Deals funnels in HubSpot.

• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously. Demonstrated ability to research and identify new funding opportunities. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly in drafting grant proposals. Proficiency in CRM systems (HubSpot) and data management, with a strong attention to detail and accuracy. Ability to collaborate effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including donors, funders, and government agencies. High level of initiative and ability to work both independently and as part of a team. ***Preferred Qualifications: Experience working with state and federal government funding sources. Strong analytical skills and ability to generate insights from CRM data to inform fundraising strategies. Experience in research and analysis.

About Us:

Unlocked Labs is a non-profit organization that partners with correctional educators and state corrections departments to design technology infrastructure to better deploy programs and track outcomes, in order to understand efficacy and inform best practices in the justice system.

Our team, which includes justice-impacted software developers, technology industry experts, and education and corrections professionals, works to:

• Build the open-source, public infrastructure is needed to support correctional program outcomes.
• Train, employ, and empower justice-impacted individuals to obtain upwardly-mobile careers upon release.
• Serve as thought-leaders in the correctional education and workforce development space to promote human-centered outcomes and enable smart decarceration.

What we offer:

Unlocked Labs' theory of change is that, by empowering individuals to take charge of their own futures, we can both unlock their upward mobility and create a fairer justice system. This applies to our employees, too: it's important to us that our team members can pursue the skills and projects they want to build their long-term future. Not only are we a mission-aligned organization, but individual growth and satisfaction is paramount to our organization's success. Have an idea that you want to roll out? Want to change up one of our processes or implement new software? Looking to learn a new skill and apply it? Come up with a plan and pitch it; we'll give feedback around implementing it.

We also provide a wide range of benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Group Health Insurance
• Group Dental and Vision Insurance
• Team outings to local businesses of St. Louis
• Free drinks and snacks at our coworking space
• ~25 paid days off, not including holidays: 15 days of PTO, to be used at your discretion; a team-wide “Wellness Week,” where the entire team is off; and the week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.