NONPROFIT GRANT WRITER

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Overview:
The role of the Grant Writer is to familiarize themselves with the organization's financial needs and mission. They are a key part of the "marketing" team for their organization. Through written proposals and other forms of communication, grant writers promote the organization and its causes, persuading donors to provide much-needed financial support. This individual has exceptional writing skills and follow-through on tasks and assignments. They pursue opportunities to gain knowledge that will assist in growing and maintaining the organization's needs.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares proposals by determining concepts, 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.
• Enters and monitors tracking data.
• 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.
• Prepares presentation by evaluating text, graphics, and binding and coordinating printing.
• Maintains quality results by using templates; following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone; maintaining proposal support databases.
• Obtains approval by reviewing proposals with key providers and project managers.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in communications, English, professional writing, or a similar major.
• Ability to familiarize themselves with an organization's goals and needs.
• Outstanding grammar and research skills are essential.
• Background relevant to the organization is helpful, but not required.

Anticipated Time of Involvement: