Grants Assistant

Southland Family Services is a nonprofit with a $6M budget. About 40% of revenue comes from grants. Reports to the Director of Development as part of the operations team. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Gather program data, outcomes and stories from program staff
• Build project budgets and budget narratives with finance
• Write grant proposals, letters of inquiry and reports to foundation and corporate funders
• Monitor compliance with grant terms and reporting requirements
• Draft acknowledgment letters and funder updates
• Maintain the grants calendar and track deadlines and requirements
• Report monthly on pipeline, awards and pending requests

What you'll need

• 1-2 years of grant writing experience with a record of funded proposals
• Comfortable interviewing program staff and turning notes into narrative
• Organized with many deadlines at once
• Writing samples required
• Familiar with Candid, Instrumentl or GrantStation

Nice to have

• Raiser's Edge or Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
• Grant Professional Certified (GPC)

Perks and benefits

Rate: $26.00 - $28.50 per hour

• Flexible schedule

About the company

Board members are hands-on and several volunteer every week. Most of our funding comes from local foundations and a county contract. Founded in 2017, we now have 27 employees.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

This position requires a background check.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Southland Family Services.