Grant Writer

Volunteer Grant Writer - Help Create Life-Changing Partnerships

Organization: Your Service Dog Inc

Location: Remote USA (work from home)

Schedule: Flexible - 5 to 10 hours/week (short-term and long-term contracts available)

Start Date: ASAP

Our organization:

Your Service Dog Inc. (YSDI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing quality of life for people with disabilities by providing access to Full Potential Service Dogs: partners trained to perform beyond legal minimums to provide superior canine assistance. Through our proprietary Full Potential Method, comprehensive training programs, and expert support, we empower both dogs and handlers to reach their full potential, creating life-changing partnerships.

YSDI serves veterans, first responders, and individuals with physical or mental disabilities through multiple pathways: providing fully trained Service Dogs at no charge to recipients, and teaching motivated individuals to train their own dogs through our Full Potential Service Dog School. Our programs emphasize dignity, security, and independence, helping clients reach their full potential with optimally trained Service Dog Partners.

Position Description:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare proposals by determining concept, gathering and formatting information, writing drafts, and obtaining approvals.
• Determine proposal concept by identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs, studying requests for proposal (RFPs), and attending strategy meetings.
• Meet proposal deadline by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, approval, and transmittal.
• Enter and monitor tracking data.
• Coordinate requirements with contributors and contribute proposal status information to review meetings.
• Gather proposal information by identifying sources, coordinating submissions and collections, and identifying and communicating proposal-related risks.
• Develop proposal by assembling information including project nature, objectives/outcomes/deliverables, implementation, methods, timetable, staffing, budget, standards of performance, and evaluation
• Write, revise, and edit drafts including executive summaries, conclusions, and organization credentials.
• Prepare presentations for grant donors as needed by evaluating relevant data, texts, and graphics.
• Maintain quality results by using templates; following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone; and maintaining proposal support databases.
• Obtain approvals by reviewing the proposal with key providers and project managers.
• Create weekly reports on ongoing, completed, and expected projects for the executive and human resources departments.

Required Qualifications:

• Previous experience or certifications in grant writing or similar field, or willingness to acquire certification within a week of onboarding date
• Highly organized
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• High-speed internet connection
• Working electronic device (computer, laptop, or similar device)
• Interest in the nonprofit sector
• Commitment to the mission and goals of Your Service Dog, Inc.
• Proven reliability and ability to meet deadlines
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office
• Strong command of the English language
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Additional preferred, but not required, qualifications:

• Provision of samples exemplifying grant writing experience
• High school diploma or equivalent, higher education experience, undergraduate diploma, and/or graduate diploma

Benefits:

• Gain practical grant writing, research, analytics, and presentation experience in a professional setting.
• Gain practical experience working with specialized Microsoft Office applications platforms often used in professional environments.
• Receive a decorated letter of recommendation from our organization’s Executive Director based on performance and work ethic.
• Gain experience working in the non-profit sector
• Feel the rewarding joy of helping people with disabilities attain medical canine assistance by volunteering for our non-profit organization.

Thank you, from the YSDI Team! Please visit yourservicedog.org to learn more about our organization.