About This Role
This full-time role secures and renews funding to sustain agency programs for children, teens, and families. The Grant Writer researches funding opportunities, writes proposals and applications, prepares reports, and manages the grants calendar. The role involves gathering program information, outcome data, and budget details from across the agency, and building relationships with funders.
Responsibilities
- Write clear, persuasive proposals and applications for foundations, corporations, civic organizations, and local, state, and federal funders, tailored to each funder's interests and priorities and grounded in the agency's mission and programs
- Prepare and submit accurate grant reports on time
- Research and identify new funding prospects to keep a steady pipeline of opportunities
- Track eligibility requirements, giving history, deadlines, and funder priorities
- Build and maintain relationships with program officers, foundation staff, corporate giving contacts, and municipal decision makers
- Stay in regular contact through calls, meetings, site visits, and updates
- Work closely with Program staff, Finance and agency leadership to gather the program descriptions, outcome data, and budget detail needed for proposals, and ensure that every request lines up with agency priorities
- Work with the Director of Corporate Giving and the Director of Individual Giving to write and prepare proposals for their donors and prospects
- Provide the writing, program detail, and budget support they need so requests go out polished, accurate, and consistent with the agency's case for support
- Manage the full grant cycle from application through close out
- Track compliance requirements and deadlines and keep detailed records of submissions, awards, declines, and reports in Salsa and the Grant Action Sheet
- Partner with Finance to build program and project budgets that support each request and meet each funder's format and reporting requirements
- Maintain the annual grants calendar so renewals, new submissions, and reports are planned in advance rather than handled at the deadline
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Journalism, Nonprofit Management, or a related field
- Three or more years of grant writing experience, ideally in nonprofit human services
- A record of securing foundation, corporate, or government grants
- Strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to explain programs and results clearly and accurately to funders
- Comfort working with budgets, program data, and outcome measures
- Experience with a donor CRM such as Salsa Engage, EveryAction, Bloomerang, Blackbaud, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, or similar, and with grant research tools such as Candid or Foundation Directory Online
