Grant Writer

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Grant Writer Job Responsibilities:

· Prepares proposals by determining concept, gathering, and formatting information, writing drafts, and obtaining approvals.

· Determines proposal concept by identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs, studying requests for proposal (RFPs), and attending strategy meetings.

· Meets proposal deadline by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering writing, review, approval, and transmittal.

· Coordinates requirements with contributors and contributes proposal status information to review meetings.

· Gathers proposal information by identifying sources of information, coordinating submissions and collections, and identifying and communicating risks associated with proposals.

· Develops proposal by assembling information including project nature, objectives/outcomes/deliverables, implementation, methods, timetable, staffing, budget, standards of performance, and evaluation.

· Writes, revises, and edits drafts including executive summaries, conclusions, and organization credentials.

· Maintains quality results by using templates; following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone; maintaining proposal support databases.

· Improves proposal-writing results by evaluating and re-designing processes, approach, coordination, and boilerplate.

· Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

· Identifying grant funding opportunities.

· Writing, submitting, and managing grant proposals.

· Furnishing prospective funders with supporting documents.

Work Hours: Part time, Full time

Location: Remote

Salary: Non salaried and commission based. Grant writer will keep 10% of the total amount per grant that is funded for the center. There is no cap to this amount of earnings.

Grant Writer Qualifications / Skills:

· Presentation skills

· Written communication

· Technical documentation

· Layout skills

· Problem solving

· Deadline-oriented

Education, Experience, and Requirements:

· Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Media, or related field.

· Minimum of 2-years experience in grant writing.

· Able to meet deadlines.

· Reliable internet and quiet place to work remotely.

· Able to meet with the Executive Director virtually at least once a week and more often depending on the project. She lives in California so the meetings would be on Pacific Standard Time.

· Proficient with measuring and reaching income goals.

· Proficient with MS Office Word and Excel.

· Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written

· Excellent organizational skills

• Remote interview process
• Virtual meetings