POSITION: Grant Specialist
REPORTS TO: Grants & Contracts Manager
STATUS: Full-time, Exempt
JOB CLASSIFICATION: Specialist II or III
WORK ARRANGEMENT: Remote
SALARY RANGE: $79,832.00 – $88,400.00
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Open Until Filled
JOB PURPOSE:
The LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired is looking for a service-oriented Grant Writer to join the LightHouse team, in the heart of downtown San Francisco. With over 100+ employees and an annual budget of $23 M, the LightHouse has the resources and imagination to help change the lives of the blind and low-vision population of the greater bay area and beyond. One of San Francisco’s oldest and best-known philanthropies, we operate primarily from a state-of-the-art headquarters on Market Street. Here we coordinate students, volunteers, teachers, families, accessible tech and a caring staff, to design and build new ways in which to help people with visual impairments.
The Grant Writer will work in a primarily remote capacity that includes occasional work in the San Francisco office or other California locations as needed as part of an evolving Development Department, supporting aspects of development for the entire organization.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education or equivalent:
- BA degree or related training in non-profit management desired.
Experience:
- 3-5+ years’ experience grant writing
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Professional and friendly demeanor
- Highly organized, high level of attention to detail
- Proficiency in Salesforce or proven CRM learning capacity and willingness to develop essential skills immediately.
- Familiarity with or interest in the nonprofit community and the LightHouse’s mission
- Driven, dependable, strong organizational skills with the ability to work independently and as a collaborative team member
- Proven professional writing experience, ideally 1+years of grants or corporate requests; portfolio samples or equivalent required.
- Experience working within corporate giving is a plus.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Must be able to: Carry or transport 20lbs; sit at a desk and perform computer-intensive work for long periods of time; operate standard office equipment; travel independently.
JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Strategy: support in revenue projection, shared prospect research responsibility with Grants and Contract Manager and leadership, including identifying and qualifying new institutional donors; development of institutional giving template content to ensure communication fidelity; direct support for Communications related to all grants items, development of recognition tiers for donors, support in developing/delivering professional development for relationship leaders throughout the organization in the realm of institutional giving.
- Production: Primary responsibility for new grant prospect development, primary responsibility to produce renewal grants over $50,000, and new grants between $25,000 – $99,000, annual templates, support in development impact report narratives, project development and budget scoping in collaboration with leadership under the supervision of the Grants and Contract Manager.
- Primary development of twice annual grant reports for institutional donors, including supporting the Grants and Contracts Manager and Program leadership in timely data collection.
- Primary responsibility for ensuring grant reports is delivered in a timely fashion.
- Primary responsibility for updating demographics internally for staff, board, and volunteers as possible. Primary responsibility for updating demographics for service areas and students (participants).
- Other duties as assigned.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
LightHouse is an equal opportunity employer. LightHouse policy and the law prohibit discrimination and harassment based on an individual’s race, ancestry, religion or religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, age (40 and over), sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin (including language use restrictions), marital status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), physical or mental disability (including HIV and AIDS), military or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions, denial of Family and Medical Care leave, height and weight, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local laws, regulations, or ordinances. Our policy and the law prohibit co-workers, third parties, supervisors, and managers from engaging in such conduct.
LightHouse personnel are employed on an at-will basis. Employment at-will means that the employment relationship may be terminated, with or without cause and with or without advance notice at any time by the employee or the Agency.
We strive to maintain a scent-free environment and a drug-free workplace. Employees are expected to behave in accordance with these objectives.
All employees at LightHouse are hired for an indefinite and unspecified duration and consequently, no employee is guaranteed employment for a specified length of time. Employment is at the mutual consent of the employee and LightHouse. Accordingly, either the employee or LightHouse can terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause (“employment at will”).
How to Apply:
Please visit our website at https://old.lighthouse-sf.org/about/careers/ and complete an application as well as a cover letter and résumé as word processing attachments, (no PDFs please).
TO APPLY:
Please submit a cover letter and résumé as Word attachments (no. PDFs please), to HR@old.lighthouse-sf.org, including the job title in the subject line. We will not consider videos or hyperlinks to online profiles. Due to time constraints, we will only respond to complete submissions in which there is serious interest, thanks for your understanding.