Grant Specialist

Ghost Writer—writing a better human story. Ghost Writer was built on the idea that creating accessible, accountable supports for businesses and organizations already doing great work is the best way to impact, uplift, and create equity in our communities.

By connecting businesses and organizations with resources needed to position themselves for self-sufficiency, long-term sustainability, and scale, Ghost Writer delivers solutions.

Ghost Writer’s highly regarded nonprofit professionals represent wide-ranging and complementary skill sets. The resulting consortium of experts allows Ghost Writer to offer its clients inclusive, comprehensive, cohesive marketing and development solutions. Clients gain access to a complete marketing and development team for less than the price of hiring one employee.

This highly effective, successful business model—as evidenced by glowing client testimonials and consistently high returns on investments—relies heavily on well-researched, written, presented, and managed grants.

At Ghost Writer, a Grant Specialist plays an important role in the business model, functioning as a primary source for the development and management of grants.

Day-to-day Activities

The Grant Specialist will assist the Agency Advocates in grant research, grant writing, and copy editing. This will include understanding needs, researching, and identify funding opportunities across a broad range of donors and funding organizations, and utilizing multiple research tools. The Grant Specialist will compile information and be able to paint a picture with words.

The Grant Specialist will receive assignments from the Agency Advocates and support the Marketing and Development Department in ensuring projects are complete within outlined deadlines.

The Grant Specialist will receive work assignments via Ghost Writer’s project management software. Ghost Writer’s model depends deeply on shared information. The Grant Specialist must ensure projects are accessible to other team members within Ghost Writer (i.e., uploading documents to shared drives and project management software, making sure current versions are clearly marked and easy to find, etc.). This sharing of information is crucial to protecting Ghost Writer’s employee model of flexibility, autonomy, and redundancy, while continuing to provide highly personalized services to our clients.

Most of the Grant Specialist’s work is remote, with occasional in-person meetings. Ghost Writer supports remote work with a robust project management software, shared Dropbox and Google files, Google Meet, and an online time recording system.

This position offers a great deal of autonomy, coupled with very deadline-heavy projects and a need for responsiveness. The Grant Specialist will be supervised by the CEO but will receive projects from Agency Advocates.

Skills, Expectations and Qualifications

Strong writing and communications skills

Experience with varying aspects and levels of grant writing

Solid understanding of nonprofit landscape and structures

Able to professionally represent Ghost Writer virtually and in person

Technology skills – Word, PDF, online project management, time recording, zoom/google meet

Listening skills

Hours:

Flexible, yet deadline heavy, with a great deal of autonomy in number of hours worked and schedule. 

To apply, please submit your resume via email to DoingWhatMatters@ghostwriterquill.com. Be sure to include Grant Specialist in the subject line.