• Start Date/Hours: This role will begin in June 2024 and be an ongoing contract based on review after the first 3 months. The grant writer contract will start with at least 20 hours per week with the potential to increase based on need.
• # of Deliverables: It is anticipated that the contract Grant Writer will submit between 3-4 grant applications/reports per month.
• Grant Size: Grants will range in size from $25K to $1 million, with most requests in the $25k to $250k range.
• Reporting: The contract grant writer will work with the Managing Director of Philanthropic Investments and relevant portfolio managers.
• Systems: The grant writer will need to be proficient in Microsoft Office, Sharepoint, and OneDrive to manage grant materials.
• Location: This is a remote position with candidates living in Dallas or Texas preferred.

• Passionate about improving our public education systems, increasing economic mobility for Dallas and the state of Texas, and holds a deep belief that EVERY student deserves access to high-quality education and the opportunity to succeed.
• At least 5 years experience in successfully writing and securing grants and managing grant cycles.
• Strong fundraising writing skills
• Ability to learn quickly about Commit’s work, education, and economic mobility, and to digest and condense content into fundraising narratives.
• Demonstrated success in securing $250K grants.
• Strong project management skills and ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to work with various team members to gather necessary information for grants and reports
• Understanding of the Dallas philanthropic landscape
• Experience securing and managing grants from national foundations

• Relationships drive your work, and you continuously focus on starting, building, and strengthening relationships both internally with team members and across the organization, and externally with investors and partners.
• You are driven by finding ways to sell, communicate, and collaborate with investors and other team members about challenges, solutions, insights, outcomes and impact on students and systems.
• You operate with a customer service mindset to investors and team members.
• You are solutions-focused, proactive in addressing challenges, and constantly thinking one-step- ahead.
• You are constantly learning, sharing, asking questions, and keeping up with your field.
• You are meticulous about systems, processes, data, and numbers, and how those pieces connect to a big picture goal or idea.
• You lead with your individual strengths and skills and see success as a team effort.

About The Commit Partnership:

Our Mission

We believe that through our actions, Dallas County – which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation– can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. That’s why our true north goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will be provided the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand jobs, maximizing the cumulative impact from early education all the way to college, career, and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012, this partnership is the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.

Together, we work to advocate for excellent and equitable public education that ensures all students – regardless of race, place, or socio-economic status – have the power to determine their future and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early Matters Dallas, North Texas Tutoring Corps, Dallas County Promise, Texas College Bridge, Dallas Thrives, Commit’s Policy Team, the Texas Impact Network, and several coalitions.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.

Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.

Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.