The Grant Writer position is an integral part of our Development team, which ensures that the organization can reach its annual and long-term goals by cultivating relationships, securing support, and building strategic partnerships with donors around the world. This full-time position helps to expand and maintain our organization’s capacity to effectively seek out and respond to grant opportunities and maintain relationships with active funders.
The ideal candidate will have experience in professional writing, a passion for Moishe House’s mission and a drive to help the organization achieve its goals and grow to scale. The Grant Writer will be based at our Executive Office in Charlotte, NC, and reports directly to the Senior Director of Development Operations.
Essential Job Duties:
- Grant writing and reporting: Oversee an average of 10-20 grant submissions per month (e.g. LOIs, grant proposals, grant reports) through their entire life cycle, including conducting the necessary research, writing first drafts, incorporating team members' edits, finalizing the documents, and submitting.
- Research (internal and external): Conduct research using Moishe House's internal tracking systems to gather and synthesize all required information for grant submissions, and work closely with the Program Team to gather and manage the data.
- Budgets (creating and reporting): Work with the Finance Team to generate financial reports and accurate budgets for grant proposals and reports using Excel.
- Salesforce database maintenance: Contribute to maintaining and updating grant tracking and reporting management systems, including grant records on the donor database system.
- Minimum of 1 year previous grant writing or other professional experience required.
- Outstanding writing and editing skills.
- Demonstrated experience with Salesforce or a similar donor database preferred.
- Demonstrated experience with building and tracking budgets using Excel preferred.
Other Critical Skills, Qualities and Abilities:
- Highly organized and motivated
- Positive attitude for both team and individual work.
- Personally driven to obtain and retain an evolving understanding of Moishe House’s history, programs, mission, vision and goals, and be able to translate this into effective written proposals and reports.
Moishe House Provides:
Competitive compensation that is commensurate with experience and a generous benefits package. In addition to salary and comprehensive benefits, Moishe House employees experience:
- Great professional development, mentoring, and skill-building opportunities
- Occasional travel for Moishe House staff and learning retreats
- A fun work environment with awesome co-workers
- The support of the global Moishe House community
This position is based in Charlotte, NC, working in Moishe House’s Executive Office with other Moishe House professionals, and reporting directly to the Sr. Director of Development Operations.
Please email cover letter, resume and salary history (no calls please) to: [email protected], along with one grant writing or other relevant writing sample in PDF format.
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