The Grants Compliance Manager establishes and leads the Foundation’s grants compliance function, with responsibility for ensuring grant activities align with legal, regulatory, and funder requirements across the full lifecycle, from pre-award through closeout. This role builds and maintains the Foundation’s grants compliance infrastructure, including Financial Conflicts of Interest (FCOI) management, policy development, training, documentation standards, and audit readiness.
Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Franciscan Health Foundation, this position works in partnership with Grants Administration, Foundation Finance, Legal, program staff, and other stakeholders. The position also provides ongoing monitoring of compliance requirements, including tracking obligations, identifying risks, and supporting accountability for deliverables and responsible parties. The role designs and maintains dashboards and reporting tools that provide visibility into grant status, compliance requirements, and key milestones.
WHO WE ARE
Franciscan Health is a leading healthcare organization dedicated to providing exceptional patient care and promoting health and wellness in our community. Our mission is to ensure that every patient receives the highest quality of care through innovation, compassion, and excellence. With 11 ministries and access points across Indiana, Franciscan Health is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the Midwest. Franciscan Health takes pride in hiring coworkers who provide compassionate, comprehensive care for our patients and the communities we serve.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Lead the development and implementation of the Foundation’s grants compliance framework, including policies, procedures, and internal controls
Review grant proposals and agreements to assess compliance requirements and organizational readiness
Monitor grant requirements, terms, deadlines, and applicable regulations across the full grant lifecycle
Build and maintain centralized tracking systems, dashboards, and reporting tools to provide visibility into grant status, compliance requirements, and accountability
Maintain policies, procedures, and documentation standards in PolicyStat (or similar system)
Develop and maintain compliance templates, checklists, and standard operating procedures in collaboration with internal stakeholders
Conduct regulatory and FCOI reviews, including debarment/SAM checks and federal/state compliance screening
Coordinate grant-related audits and maintain audit-ready documentation and processes
Develop and deliver training, guidance, and tools to support consistent compliance practices across teams
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's Degree - Required
Master's Degree - Preferred
5 years Grants compliance, grants management, audit, or related experience, including experience building or implementing compliance processes in a complex or regulated environment - Required
Experience applying federal and state grant regulations (e.g., Uniform Guidance 2 CFR Part 200) and conducting compliance review of grant proposals, agreements, and expenditures to assess allowability, allocability, and organizational readiness - Required
Experience managing Financial Conflicts of Interest (FCOI), subrecipient monitoring, and audit activities, including documentation, internal controls, and response coordination - Required
Experience building and implementing compliance processes, policies, and documentation standards in a regulated environment - Required
Experience collaborating across legal, finance, procurement, and program teams and using compliance systems or enterprise platforms (e.g., REDCap, Workday, PolicyStat, or similar) - Required
Experience in healthcare, nonprofit, or other highly regulated environments - Preferred
Experience managing grants across multiple funding sources (federal, state, foundation, corporate) - Preferred
Experience creating and supporting compliance training, education, or organizational change initiatives - Preferred
Experience navigating complex organizational structures and coordinating across multiple stakeholders - Preferred
Experience developing and standardizing processes to improve consistency, efficiency, and compliance - Preferred
TRAVEL IS REQUIRED:
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
It is the policy of Franciscan Alliance to provide equal employment to its employees and qualified applicants for employment as otherwise required by an applicable local, state or Federal law.
Franciscan Alliance reserves a Right of Conscience objection in the event local, state or Federal ordinances that violate its values and the free exercise of its religious rights.
Franciscan Alliance is committed to equal employment opportunity.
Franciscan provides eligible employees with comprehensive benefit offerings. Find an overview on the benefit section of our career site, jobs.franciscanhealth.org.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5 years grants compliance, grants management, audit, or related experience, including implementing compliance processes in regulated environments
- Experience applying federal and state grant regulations (e.g., Uniform Guidance 2 CFR Part 200) and reviewing allowability and allocability
- Experience managing Financial Conflicts of Interest (FCOI), subrecipient monitoring, and audit coordination/response
- Experience building and implementing compliance policies, procedures, internal controls, and documentation standards
- Experience collaborating with legal, finance, procurement, and program teams and using compliance systems or enterprise platforms (e.g., REDCap, Workday, PolicyStat)
- Master's Degree
- Experience in healthcare, nonprofit, or other highly regulated environments
- Experience managing grants across multiple funding sources (federal, state, foundation, corporate)
- Experience developing and delivering compliance training, templates, and change initiatives
- Experience developing standardized processes to improve consistency, efficiency, and compliance
Franciscan Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Franciscan Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Franciscan Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits include medical, dental, and vision with broad network options, plus added savings when using system hospitals, labs, imaging, pharmacies, and physicians. Feedback suggests health coverage is solid, though not best-in-class.
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Retirement Support — An employer-funded retirement contribution is available alongside 403(b) and 457(b) options with defined eligibility and vesting. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings across many roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO accrues with service and certain provider roles cite robust allotted time off and CME. Feedback suggests the presence of EAP and additional programs adds breadth to time-away support.
Franciscan Health Insights
What We Do
The Franciscan Alliance healthcare ministry began in Lafayette, Ind., in 1875. Today, Franciscan Alliance is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the Midwest with 12 hospital campuses in Indiana and Illinois, approximately 20,000 employees and a number of nationally recognized Centers of Health Care Excellence. Hospitals include: Franciscan Health Crown Point, Franciscan Health Michigan City, Franciscan Health Crawfordsville, Franciscan Health Lafayette East, Franciscan Health Indianapolis, Franciscan Health Carmel, Franciscan Health Rensselaer, Franciscan Health Mooresville, Franciscan Health Hammond, Franciscan Health Dyer, Franciscan Health Munster and Franciscan Beacon Hospital in Indiana; and Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Illinois. For more information, visit FranciscanHealth.org. With more than 850 primary and specialty care providers at over 260 locations in Indiana and Illinois, Franciscan Physician Network is one of the largest and most respected multi-specialty physician networks in the Midwest providing convenient, comprehensive care
