Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fathers’ Rights Matter Foundation is a nonprofit focused on supporting parents, strengthening families, and improving outcomes for children. The Grant Writer will develop and manage institutional funding activities from prospect research through proposal submission, award reporting, and renewal, while building funder relationships and strengthening impact measurement.
Responsibilities
- Research private foundations, corporate giving programs, community foundations, government grants, and other funding opportunities
- Identify funders aligned with FRMF’s mission, programs, geography, and organizational capacity
- Evaluate eligibility, competitiveness, restrictions, deadlines, and strategic fit
- Build and maintain a prioritized grant pipeline
- Track funding opportunities related to families, children, parenting, mental and emotional well-being, education, legal-system navigation, community support, technology, and nonprofit capacity building
- Write letters of inquiry, concept papers, proposals, applications, renewal requests, and supporting narratives
- Translate FRMF’s programs, goals, data, and community needs into compelling cases for support
- Customize proposals for individual funders while maintaining FRMF’s authentic voice
- Work with leadership and program stakeholders to gather budgets, statistics, outcomes, and supporting materials
- Develop reusable organizational language, program descriptions, impact statements, and grant-support materials
- Maintain a grant calendar with deadlines, reporting requirements, renewals, and follow-up activity
- Track prospective, submitted, pending, awarded, and declined grants
- Maintain accurate funder records and communications
- Ensure applications and reports are complete, accurate, compliant, and submitted on time
- Help build repeatable grant-management systems as FRMF grows
- Prepare interim, annual, and final funder reports
- Collaborate with FRMF leadership to collect measurable program outcomes and impact data
- Turn results into clear narratives showing what funding accomplished
- Help identify what information FRMF should collect now to strengthen future applications
- Support development of meaningful performance measures and outcome tracking
- Research prospective funders and understand their priorities before applying
- Help cultivate long-term relationships with foundations and institutional funders
- Prepare materials for funder conversations and meetings
- Identify opportunities for sustainable, recurring funding relationships
Skills
- You are curious
- You research before you write
- You notice details
- You can take a complicated issue and explain it clearly
- You understand the difference between an emotional story and an unsupported claim, and you know how to combine human experience, credible evidence, measurable outcomes, and responsible storytelling
- You can work independently, manage deadlines, ask good questions, and maintain high standards for accuracy and professionalism
- Excellent persuasive, technical, and narrative writing skills
- Strong research and analytical ability
- Experience researching grants and evaluating funder fit
- Experience preparing proposals, letters of inquiry, or institutional funding requests
- Strong editing and proofreading skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and applications
- Comfort working with program data, budgets, and outcome information
- Strong organizational and project-management skills
- High standards for confidentiality, transparency, and ethics
- Comfort learning new software, grant portals, and productivity tools
- A particular degree is not required if your experience and work demonstrate that you can succeed in this role
- What matters is your ability to approach sensitive family issues thoughtfully, objectively, compassionately, and professionally
- 2+ years of grant writing, nonprofit development, fundraising, communications, or related experience
- Demonstrated experience contributing to successful grant applications
- Experience with foundation, corporate, state, or federal grants
- Familiarity with grant budgets and nonprofit financial information
- Experience developing measurable outcomes or program-evaluation language
- Experience in family services, child advocacy, community development, behavioral health, legal-access initiatives, education, social services, or related fields
- Familiarity with New Hampshire or New England philanthropy
- Grant Professional Certified (GPC) or similar professional development is a plus
- Experience using AI-assisted research or drafting tools is welcomed, provided you understand that human judgment, source verification, confidentiality, accuracy, and authentic writing remain essential
- Personal experience is welcomed but never required or expected to be disclosed
Benefits
- Remote / Hybrid
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