Job Description

Full-Time Grant Writing and Fundraising Manager

Mockingbird Analytics is a growing, women-led, progressive nonprofit management agency located in Los Angeles, California. Mockingbird Analytics is on a mission to help small and mid-size nonprofit organizations tell their story. Founded in 2015, Mockingbird Analytics provides management and development services for nonprofits and social enterprises. We help local and global nonprofits, social good organizations, and startups build infrastructure and tell their stories. Mockingbird Analytics is seeking a Grant Writing and Fundraising Manager to join our team of experts in a full-time capacity. 

Grant Writing (75% of the time)

• Prepares proposals by determining concepts, gathering and formatting information, writing drafts, and obtaining approvals.
• Determines proposal concept by identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs, studying requests for proposal (RFPs), and attending strategy meetings.
• Meets proposal deadline by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, approval, and transmittal.
• Enters and monitors tracking data.
• Coordinates requirements with contributors and contributes proposal status information to review meetings.
• Maintains quality results by using templates; following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone; maintaining proposal support databases.
• Obtains approvals by reviewing proposals with key providers and project managers.

Other projects based on clients needs and interests (25% of the time): 

Project Management and Client Relations

• Providing day-to-day project management
• Developing and monitoring project work plans and budgets
• Building client relations, including email and telephone communication, and in-person meetings

Communications and Media Strategy

• Develop, implement and manage communications and marketing material development
• Develop and implement fundraising campaigns for clients
• Work with designers to ensure content is informative and appealing for clients

Grant Writing and Fundraising Manager Qualifications/Skills:

• • A minimum of 3-5 years of relevant work experience in the nonprofit sector
  • Previous experience with consulting and/or project management preferred
  • Government grant writing experience highly desirable or willingness to learn.
  • Experience working in diverse communities and across social, economic, and cultural differences is strongly preferred.
  • Exceptional writing skills: Candidates must have the ability to present complex concepts, findings and recommendations in succinct, salient, and readable reports and memos, ability to write for a variety of audiences including major foundations, individual donors, general audiences, and nonprofit professionals.
  • Strong client relations skills: Ability to pick up on different organizational cultures and work with a wide range of different types of nonprofit leadership, including boards
  • Excellent interpersonal skills: Ability to work well both as a member of a team and independently
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Self-starter: Ability to manage and prioritize work in a fast-paced environment, delegate work efficiently, and take direction from multiple project managers
  • Strong capacity to be self-reflective, commitment to personal and professional growth; Intellectual curiosity, creativity, strong desire, and capacity for diversity in professional challenges
  • Intermediate to advanced skills in Microsoft Office and G-Suite

• Please note you must be located in California to be considered

• Applicants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply

Salary: Commensurate with experience, the starting rate is $28/hour (move from hourly to salary after 6 months of full-time work); includes a benefits package with an employer-sponsored health plan, 401k, paid holidays and vacations, paid parental leave, annual COLA.

How to Apply

• Your cover letter should describe your interest in working with small and medium-sized nonprofits and your experience in fundraising and grant writing. Submit 2 writing samples. 1 example of your experience doing fundraising or a previous grant application and 1 of general content for the general audience (i.e. report, blog, memo, etc.)
• The deadline to apply is February 28th. The position is open until filled. Hiring ASAP. 

• Create transparent practices;
• Make ethical decisions;
• Have a workplace that brings out the best in everyone;
• We are intersectional feminists;
• We are pro-worker and believe in fair labor practices;
• We engage in equal pay for equal work;
• We believe in animal rights and environmental justice;
• And that children deserve to be safe and loved at all times.

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 40,000 - 60,000.

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