Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. StreetWise Partners is a nonprofit organization focused on expanding career mobility through mentoring, career coaching, and employment support. The Grant Manager will build and manage a new funding pipeline across foundation, corporate, and government sources, including prospect development, proposal submission, grant budgeting, reporting, and revenue forecasting. The role will also lead proposal infrastructure and the adoption of AI tools to improve the development function.
Responsibilities
- Build and manage an active portfolio of qualified foundation, corporate, and government prospects, each backed by a funder-specific dossier: giving history, program priorities, decision-makers, and cultivation timeline
- Apply moves management discipline to advance prospects from identification through qualification to solicitation, in coordination with the Chief Development Officer and CEO
- Source new relationship pathways, including via LinkedIn and funder networks, to keep the top of the pipeline full
- Own the portfolio in a shared tracking system built for forward-looking revenue forecasting, not just historical reporting
- Own end-to-end submission of every proposal, LOI, and funder report, from first draft through final upload or mail, confirming receipt where required
- Write and submit high-quality LOIs, proposals, and funder reports at a pace of 3 to 5 new applications weekly, without sacrificing the tailoring each funder requires
- Build and own the Master Proposal library, the organization's core narrative, outcomes data, and AI-enabled program use cases, so every proposal starts from a position of strength
- Partner with finance to build and align grant budgets and budget narratives
- Position every ask in the funder's own language and priorities. No generic, reused copy
- Own a grant tracking system that separates new business from renewals and gives leadership an honest, current read on revenue in motion
- Deliver a weekly pipeline report tight enough to drive real decisions, not just document activity
- Surface deadline risk and resourcing gaps early enough to act on them, not after
- Maintain a master deadline calendar covering every application, LOI, and funder report due date, with enough lead time built in to review and refine before submission
- Partner with program and finance to translate outcomes and evidence into funder-ready narrative
- Stay embedded in organizational strategy through regular internal engagement
- Lead adoption of AI tools that increase research and drafting velocity, consistent with board direction to modernize the development function
- Other tasks as assigned
Skills
- 5+ years of institutional fundraising experience, with grant writing and prospect research as core disciplines, ideally in workforce development, education, or economic mobility
- A track record of proposals that convert, not just proposals that go out the door. Comfortable being measured on win rate and dollars raised, not only volume submitted
- Sophisticated prospect research instincts and comfort building a pipeline from a cold start, using LinkedIn, funder databases, and public philanthropic data
- Experience building and defending grant budgets alongside a finance team
- An operator's mindset: someone who has built a fundraising system before, not only worked inside one
- Strong command of funder voice, able to move fluidly between an organization's strategic priorities and a program officer's evaluation criteria
- Available during core U.S. Eastern business hours and able to work independently as a remote consultant
- Demonstrated fluency using AI tools to automate prospect research and build an efficient grant workflow, such as faster funder qualification, first-draft generation from a proposal library, or a repeatable pipeline process
- Be ready to describe a specific AI-enabled workflow you have built or used
- This is a remote (U.S.) position; candidates in NYC or D.C. Metro are preferred but not required
- This is hourly independent contractor role, approximately 40 hours per month
- Fluency in a CRM and project management tool (Salesforce and Asana preferred)
Benefits
- Remote (U.S.) position
- Independent contractor role; no benefits offered
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