Grant Writer

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Strong Gens is looking for an experienced, innovative, and outgoing individual with a demonstrable record of consistent grant writing success and experience managing the grant development and proposal process.

Position: Grant Writer

Hours: minimum 4 hours per week

Location: Remote

Volunteering commitment: 3 - 6 months

Job description

Strong Gens is looking for an experienced, innovative, and outgoing individual with a demonstrable record of consistent grant writing opportunities. The Grant Writer will be responsible for identifying grant opportunities, and managing the grant development and proposal process. Candidates must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, a professional and resourceful attitude, the ability to work both independently and as a team player, and a desire to take initiative and manage numerous projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and research prospective Trusts, Foundations and other funding sources relevant to Strong Gens’s funding needs.
• Track and create a calendar of grant opportunities - including deadline dates, required materials, etc.
• Develop Strong Gen’s Trust and Foundations fundraising strategy to maintain a strong and diverse income pipeline that meets ConnectionHub's funding needs.
• Develop knowledge of Strong Gens’s projects and stakeholders to ensure that funding approaches are fully reflective of our work and in line with funders’ priorities.
• Write high quality, persuasive bids that meet funders’ interests and requirements and write any additional documents in support of funding bids.
• Maintain chart of grant applications: including grants applied to, status of application, grant deadline.
• Review all bid feedback and ensure knowledge is shared, so that learning informs Strong Gens’s future approach.
• Identify and write up case studies to inform audiences of the difference Strong Gens makes in communities.

• Bachelor's degree
• Demonstrated experience in obtaining grants from nonprofits, charities, and other philanthropic organisations.
• Experience of building Trust and Foundation pipelines and excellent knowledge of fundraising information sources.
• Excellent written skills including an ability to write compelling funding briefs, reports and proposals.
• Ability to manage rejection and overcome common proposal objections.
• Well organised, with effective time management and problem solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills required.
• Excellent IT skills (proficient in Microsoft/Google packages).

Our charity’s mission is to empower children who have been left feeling powerless by forces and circumstances outside of their control. We want to help every child, in every community we work with, to feel the safety, nurture and love they need in order to not only survive but to thrive. We work to protect and promote children’s rights and ensure that every child has the ability to feel seen and heard.

We provide children with the tools that they need to develop the unique talents and skills that we believe all children possess and should be able to carry into adulthood.

By supporting children in this way, we believe that they will develop into strong future leaders of their communities, generations who are able to succeed, inspire and care for one another, for many years to come.

The children have reached out to ask us to support their Sustainable Future Dream Campaigns.These campaigns have been driven by issues that are affecting children’s ability to live safe, empowered, sustainable lives.

This is the chance to make a huge impact on the lives of children fleeing conflict and crisis around the world; your involvement in this programme would be helping children in desperate situations to regain hope, to rebuild confidence, and to reimagine their future. You would join our international network of talented volunteers collaborating on this project to bring educational opportunities to crisis and conflict contexts.

Please be aware that this is an unpaid volunteer work.