Position Summary
The grant writer serves as a staff member at will of Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS). The grant writer provides professional grant-writing services to the agency. With the assistance of the Chief Development Officer, work toward stable agency funding through an increased donor base, capital contribution campaign, and planned giving program.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Priority 1: Equity and Inclusion
- Reflect and understand how identities could give advantages in the workplace—even if they are not asked for or earned—while others might experience disadvantages. Reflect on how our position and power may shift depending on the environment, the people, or the institutions at play. Build the awareness and compassion that is needed and expected to create an equitable and inclusive workplace.
- Create an inclusive environment and behave in a way that ensures that clients and employees feel embraced, no matter what their cultural orientations are, respected and valued, engaged, and connected to the community, and safe from abuse and harassment.
Priority 2 – Grant Writing and Research
- Responsible for compiling, writing, and editing grant applications. Must exhibit strong expository writing skills and a high-level command of grammar and spelling.
- Responsible for developing individual grant proposals in accordance with grantors preferences and guidelines. This includes seeking DVIS data from the appropriate departments and utilizing data in applications and in goal setting.
- Responsible for researching grant-making organizations and analyzing them to identify likely funding sources for specific projects and programs.
- Responsible for assisting in the maintenance of archived files of grant research, grant applications (including refusals), and administration and distribution of grants that were approved.
- Responsible for working with the Chief Financial Officer and program staff to match program suggestions and goals with grant opportunities. Convert ideas into workable funding opportunities.
- Responsible for creating and maintaining a “program needs” list of current and proposed agency programs that require funding. Research and pursue funding opportunities for these programs.
- Responsible for developing and implementing grant acquisition strategies - both initial application and renewal.
- Responsible for working with Chief Financial Officer and Administration to match budget requirements to funding opportunities.
Priority 3 – Monitoring and Reporting
- Responsible for supplying progress reports when required by a grant-making organization for the funded project(s) or program(s).
- Responsible for monitoring existing grants and submitting renewal or extension applications.
Priority 4 – Relationship Building/Collaboration
- Responsible for keeping in contact with grant-making organizations during their review of a submitted grant application and supplying additional supportive material as requested.
- Organize, attend, and participate in community collaborations leading to the development of funding and program resources for DVIS.
- Provide training to new staff on grant management and reporting requirements
Job Requirements/Experience
Education: Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, or Communications is required, or in a related field or any equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
Experience: Requires a minimum of 2 years’ experience in grant writing or other similar experience; experience working with a nonprofit strongly preferred, or any equivalent combination of experience, lived experience, and/or special skills.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Proven computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite is necessary.
Knowledge of or experience working with social justice issues, specifically intimate partner and gender-based domestic and sexual violence, and racial, class, gender, sexual orientation issues, and intervention/prevention services strongly preferred. Requires dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion, excellent organizational skills, written and oral communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize work and tasks. Requires adaptability to produce and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, multi-task and changing environment, with frequent pressure related to meeting deadlines and scheduling requirements. Must be able to work independently and as part of a team. Must have good negotiation skills and the ability to handle sensitive information with diplomacy.
- Requires the ability to embrace, support, and integrate DVIS’s philosophies to promote and demonstrate DVIS’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism.
- Experience applying an equitable analysis to all duties to achieve organizational goals and demonstrate DVIS’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism preferred.
- Diplomacy in confronting personal, individual, and internal discrimination requiring sharing and discussing personal identities relative to the work environment is strongly preferred.
- Requires sophisticated emotional intelligence and resiliency skills to lead and/or actively participate in advancing our work relative to racial, social, and economic justice.
Strong writing ability, with demonstrated awareness about different genres of writing and writing for different audiences
Excellent analytical and organizational skills, including the ability to synthesize complex or diverse information
Experience collecting and researching data
Experience with calculating figures and working with numbers
Experience working proactively while balancing a variety of priorities and workloads.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team, prioritizing work appropriately.
Schedule Availability: Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Occasional extended workdays.