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Employer:  ForestEthics.
Categories:  Sales/Marketing
Fundraising/Development
Business Development
Travel Required:  None
Job Type:  Full Time
Preferred Degree:  Bachelors
Experience Required:  2-3 years
State/Province:  CA - California
City:  San Francisco
Salary:  n/a
Job Description: 

ForestEthics' grant writer is responsible for creating submission-ready proposals and reports for an active portfolio of 60-70 foundations, which include some of the world's largest and most influential environmental funders - Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, to name but a few. The grant writer will lead the creation of content for new projects, reports and initiatives and refresh archived content as
necessary to reflect the unique needs of each foundation. Regular interviews with senior-level, international campaign staff (Canadian primarily) will be required to maintain active and lively content.

The ideal candidate will have excellent professional writing experience (experience with grant writing preferred), thrive in a very deadline-driven work environment, and demonstrate that they will be able to 'hit the ground running' as of early January 2010. This is a half-time (20 hours/week), non-exempt position with excellent benefits. Although development staff is located in ForestEthics' San Francisco office, remote applicants are encouraged to apply.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

* Create submission-ready grants and reports as directed by Senior Development Officer;
* Conduct interviews with campaign staff and executive office (as necessary) to update and create new content related to organization-wide and campaign-specific activities;
* Update boilerplates (i.e. executive summaries, organization history, theories of change, etc) for use by development staff.

QUALIFICATIONS:

* 3 years professional writing experience (experience with grant writing preferred).
* Excellent project management, follow-through, and time management skills;
* High reasoning skills as demonstrated by the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; and the ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form;
* Independent, self-motivated with a desire to provide support to advance ForestEthics' mission;
* Highly organized, flexible, creative, able to prioritize multiple tasks;
* Strong interpersonal skills and sense of humor.

TO APPLY

Please send cover letter with resume and a writing sample to grantwriter@forestethics.org with your name in the subject line. No phone calls please.

 

12/15/2009

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