Fractional Grant Operations
The grants function, without the full-time hire.
Senior sponsored-programs capability on a recurring basis — pipeline, proposals, calendars, portfolio oversight, policy, and leadership reporting. For institutions that need the function to work now and are not ready to build or expand a grants office.
This tends to fit when one of these is true.
You administer awards but have no dedicated grants staff.
Grants sit on top of someone's real job, and both suffer.
The volume does not yet justify a full-time hire — but the risk does.
You are between grants staff and cannot afford a gap.
You want the function built properly before hiring into it.
Full-lifecycle operational support, on a standing basis.
Funding Pipeline Management
A standing pipeline rather than a stack of forwarded announcements — screened, prioritised, and reviewed on a cycle you can plan around.
Proposal Coordination
Running submissions as a managed process: timelines, roles, internal review, and the packaging that keeps a deadline from becoming an emergency.
Grant Calendar Administration
Every deadline that matters — submissions, reports, deliverables, modifications, closeouts — held in one place with named owners.
Portfolio Oversight
A current view across every active award: spend against budget, deliverable status, and the risks worth escalating before they become findings.
Policies, Procedures, and Workflows
The written operating layer that lets the function survive staff turnover — procurement, effort, allowable costs, and the workflows that carry them.
Leadership Reporting
What the board, the CFO, or the executive director actually needs to see: portfolio health, pipeline, and exposure, on a predictable rhythm.
Delivered through Sponsored Programs Administration, Program Governance, and Leadership & Workforce Development — service lines of Practice 03, Program, Project & Grants Management. Scoped as a Retainer.
Build the function properly, then decide whether to hire into it.
A Grant Strategy Consultation is a focused conversation about the volume you carry, the capacity you have, and what a standing arrangement would need to cover.
At a Glance
Fractional Grant Operations, Answered
Recurring grant-office support for institutions that need sustained grants capability without building or expanding an internal grants office.
- Pipeline, proposals, calendars, portfolio oversight, policy, and leadership reporting
- For organizations needing sustained support short of a full-time hire
- Scoped as a Retainer, delivered through Practice 03, Program, Project & Grants Management
- Designed to leave a stronger function behind, not a dependency