This position reports to the Director of Development and focuses on grant writing.
Responsibilities
- Write materials for all steps of the grant proposal process, including organizational descriptions, letters of inquiry, formal proposals, grant reports and other development materials as needed.
- Work with multiple team members to create grant proposals and to track accomplishments for grant reports.
- Assist with maintenance of the grant-tracking database, calendar and reporting notification systems.
- Help update and expand research and statistics that support funding requests.
- Help identify new funding sources, and compile information about potential funders.
- Assist Small Business Majority VPs and Directors in other areas of development work as needed.
- Occasionally work on other writing projects, such as policy papers.
Requirements
- Superior writing and research skills
- Two years of grant/proposal writing experience
- Self-starter
- Ability to work independently in a remote workplace setting
- Ability to collaborate remotely with team members
- Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities
- Ability to organize and synthesize volumes of disparate information from multiple sources
- Comfort with Microsoft Office programs, including Word and Excel
Pluses
- Familiarity with CRM tools such as Salesforce
- Small business experience
- Experience in some, or all, of the following fields: Entrepreneurship, healthcare, retirement security, access to credit
- Interest in advocacy, politics and public policy
If qualified and interested, please submit a cover letter and resume to [email protected]. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.