Director of Grants, Center for Gun Violence Research & Education, the HAVI and HRiA

Health Resources in Action, Inc. (HRiA) seeks to hire a Director of Grants for the Center for Gun Violence Research and Education, which was launched by Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest integrated, nonprofit health care provider. This is a mid-management level position within HRiA’s Grantmaking cluster, reporting to the Managing Director of The Medical Foundation and working closely with both The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI) and HRiA staff.

The Director of Grants will work with the leadership of the Center to amplify its impact by developing an overarching grants framework and overseeing processes that disseminate funding to non-profit organizational partners that will advance research and education efforts. The position will also collaborate with, convene, and serve as a thought leader with non-governmental organizations, universities, community-based organizations, healthcare organizations and other stakeholders with a shared interest in gun violence prevention research, innovation, education, and community-based solutions.

HRiA offers exciting, engaging, and challenging employment opportunities for facilitators, trainers, researchers, analysts, policy specialists, grant managers, and more. People come to HRiA because of our commitment to advancing health equity and inspiring work; they stay for our wonderful clients, partners, and dedicated and dynamic staff. With our growing portfolio of high-impact work, person-centered policies, and generous benefits, our team continually invests in making HRiA a great place to work. Our diverse staff of over 270 people hail from 30+ states, with a home base in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood.

This is an exempt, full-time position with a salary range of $90,000-$110,000, based on experience and internal equity factors. National travel (about 10%) is expected for this position.

Benefits

HRiA offers the following benefits to its employees:

• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Flexible summer hours
• Vacation starting at 4 weeks
• 13 paid holidays, plus office closure time during the last week of December.

Responsibilities

Management

• Proactively bridge and connect HRiA, HAVI, and KP Center staff, processes, protocols, and philosophies.
• Work with KP Center leadership to design and implement a broader grantmaking and funding strategy that aligns with the Center’s vision and goals
• Cultivate and maintain positive working relationships with key national/state partners and leaders, community stakeholders, prospective and current funders, and the Center’s Advisory Committee.
• Manage community engagement efforts to gather input and feedback on design of funding opportunities.
• Develop networks with other funding entities dedicated to funding gun violence research and education for the purposes of co-funding.
• Work with evaluators to develop framework and reporting requirements for awardees.
• Participate in partner organization events on violence prevention/intervention strategies.
• Work with the Center’s leadership to manage important internal and external opportunities and challenges.

Project Work

• Develop Requests for Proposals and application requirements for funding opportunities, including but not limited to, terms of the award, budget templates, and other application materials.
• Serve as liaison for relevant organizations, networks, and other platforms for dissemination of funding opportunities and as the primary contact for application questions
• Develop selection criteria in alignment with strategic goals of the Center
• Identify and serve as the lead contact for review committee members, and facilitate application review processes for funding recommendations
• Curate funding briefing books and other materials necessary for decision-making bodies.
• Oversee award agreement and award payment processes.
• Support post-award activities, including collaborating with Center staff to provide capacity building efforts for awardees, and to evaluate impact of grantee-led research
• Contribute to efforts by the Center’s Communications team to gather, distill, and amplify grantee stories and accomplishments.
• Support reporting client for impact of funding approach on the field of gun violence research and education.

Thought Leadership

• Advance Center strategic priorities through identifying and adopting grantmaking trends to funding opportunities
• Support the Senior Leadership in building strategic partnerships and identify opportunities for impact and joint funding to advance the grantmaking work of the Center.
• Support the Senior Leadership to anticipate shifts in the funding landscape, demonstrate partnership with all levels of the field, and promote the leadership of communities most impacted by gun violence.
• Contribute white papers, webinars, presentations and other forms of communication for the Center website, external communications, and to professional networks

Business Development

• Contribute ideas to proposal development for potential joint funding opportunities.
• Cultivate relationships and partnerships for development opportunities.

Qualifications

Requirements

• An advanced degree in health and/or public health related fields; with preference for candidates with backgrounds in research, program evaluation, social justice, and racial and health equity.
• At least seven years of relevant work experience in grantmaking/philanthropy
• Recent roles are demonstrative of leadership in design, implementation, management, and evaluation of funding programs, project, and/or strategic initiatives
• Solid experience in supervision and management of high-performing teams in a matrixed environment
• Excellent verbal and written skills, including strong presentation skills and the ability to translate complex technical language and convey sensitive issues to diverse audiences.
• Able to maintain and build relationships, and partner with external stakeholders such as board members, donors, community-based organizations, academic institutions, grassroots organizations, funders, and national networks.
• Experience with fiscal/budgetary/accounting; reporting, compliance, and accountability; human resources
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, and SharePoint

Additional skills

• Knowledge of emerging trends, challenges, and best practices in health equity, philanthropy, and public health
• Ability to learn software programs, including Insightly (CRM), Asana, and other tools used by the organization

Organizational Values and Competencies

• Operates with a lens of equity, social justice, and trauma-informed approaches
• Demonstrated understanding of health and racial equity, the root causes of inequities, and racism as a public health crisis
• Commitment to advancing racial equity, demonstrated cultural humility, and celebration of diverse perspectives and lived experiences
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment and to work independently and productively in a remote position
• Proactive, solution-oriented work style
• Growth mindset and ability to adapt to changing needs
• Flexibility and a sense of humor

This description is intended to indicate the kinds of work duties required in this position. It is not intended to limit, or modify, any supervisor’s rights to assign, direct, and contract work of staff under their supervision. The use of a particular illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties, not mentioned, that are of a similar level or difficulty.

Application Process

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HRiA is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

Apply by

Monday, October 27, 2025.

Date Posted

10/16/2025

About the Organization

Health Resources in Action, Inc. (HRiA) is a non-profit organization working to improve and reimagine public health. We connect, consult, and collaborate to solve complex challenges of access and equity in our health and social systems. Together with our partners, clients, and collaborators, we create actionable solutions so that all people can thrive.

In 1957, The Medical Foundation was created to primarily fund biomedical research in Massachusetts. Since then, we’ve been on a journey of evolution. We changed our name to Health Resources in Action to reflect our impact in the field of public health. Today, HRiA works with individuals, organizations, and communities to drive a policy and systems change approach to advance health and racial equity.

HRiA seeks sustainable solutions for complex problems using an anti-racist approach. We aim to be adaptable and flexible in meeting clients and partners where they are, offering our decades of knowledge and resources to collectively realize our dream of equitable, sustainable health for all. The foundation of this work is centered on our values:

-Health and racial equity by identifying and addressing the root causes of health inequities, intentionally working to shift narratives and power imbalances and disrupt all systems of oppression.
-Leading with heart by demonstrating our passionate commitment to our work, continuously challenging ourselves with humility and vulnerability while pursuing and holding ourselves accountable to our mission.
-Collaboration by intentionally and respectfully leading, partnering, and following to strengthen relationships, uplift different voices and build trust.
-Innovation by driving toward new strategies, questioning norms, and continuously learning and evolving to support the needs of our clients and communities.

HRiA offers exciting, engaging, and challenging employment opportunities for facilitators, trainers, researchers, analysts, policy specialists, grant managers, and more. People come to HRiA because of our commitment to advancing health equity and inspiring work; they stay for our wonderful clients, partners, and dedicated and dynamic staff. With our growing portfolio of high-impact work, person-centered policies, and generous benefits, our team continually invests in making HRiA a great place to work. Our diverse staff of over 300 people hail from 30+ states, with a home base in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood.

The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI) envisions a world where communities end violence and foster healing. Our mission is to reduce violence, particularly in communities of color, by advancing hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) and coordinated, community-led systems that heal trauma and promote equity.

HVIPs are rooted in the philosophy that violence is preventable, and that violent injury offers an opportunity to break cycles of violence. HVIPs integrate the expertise of violence prevention professionals (VPPs) with credibility and lived experience of violence.

The HAVI and HRiA will co-lead the Kaiser Permanente Center on Gun Violence Research and Education in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente. The focus of the Center is to improve community capability to develop, deploy and scale evidence-based community and health care solutions to prevent gun violence, and mitigate the impact of this violence on families and communities. The Center promotes a public health approach to reducing gun violence through public and professional communication campaigns. It facilitates collaborative partnerships with academia, governmental organizations, foundations, and private/non-profit organizations and seek to sponsor research, as well as care innovation and educational initiatives. The work produced by the Center aims to 1) reduce the incidence and impact of gun violence, including suicide, 2) address the emotional and psychological trauma related to the aftermath of shootings, including the disparate impact that gun violence has in communities of color, and 3) provide strong leadership and collaboration with other healthcare providers, community-based organizations, and businesses seeking to participate in solutions that will have a measurable impact on the gun violence epidemic.

Specifically, the center develops, tests, and scales public health and health care solutions to addressing gun violence, including:

Research efforts focusing on solutions and interventions to gun violence, and the long-term psychological consequences of these incidents, that are promising but in need of additional evidence;
Education efforts addressing the need to inform the public, health care stakeholders, businesses, policymakers, and community-based organizations about the role they can play in reducing gun violence and the consequences of gun violence; and Innovation efforts focusing on novel public health and health care processes, policies, and intervention models to prevent gun shootings, including those that are self-inflicted and between intimate partners.

For more information about the organization visit http://www.hria.org and http://www.thehavi.org.