Lead Grant Writer

The Neighborhood Developers (TND) is hiring a full-time, hybrid Lead Grant Writer to take the lead on production and reporting of TND’s grants and service contracts. Are you enthusiastic about housing justice? Do you believe everyone deserves to have financial stability and a good job? Do you believe people with lived experience should make the policy decisions that affect them? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this position could be for you

Organization Overview

TND is a non-profit community development organization with a mission to create strong neighborhoods enabling community members to secure a stable home, achieve economic mobility, and determine their own future. We build affordable homes, organize community leaders, and, through our CONNECT program, support households to access public benefits, find better jobs, and expand their financial prospects. TND is headquartered in Chelsea, where it has operated since 1978. The organization was invited into Revere in 2010, and since 2018, we are also offering some of our services in Everett. For more information see www.the neighborhood developers.org. We offer competitive compensation and a full benefits package (scroll down here). We seek to build the skills of our team members so that they can advance their career by providing regular professional development opportunities.

Position Summary

Our Resource Development team of six close colleagues conducts funding research, writes grant proposals, stewards donors, manages our contracts, and leads our communications efforts. The Lead Grant Writer will lead our grant production and reporting. We, currently, submit about 60 proposals per year to foundations, corporate partners, and government agencies, generating about $2.5M annually. This is an exciting time to join our team, as our organization has grown over the last few years. The Lead Grant Writer is a hybrid position giving you the opportunity to work primarily from home, or in the office, if you prefer, with occasional in-person meetings and events based out of our beautiful office in Chelsea.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct research and explore opportunities to identify funding from new and existing sources.
• Conceptualize possible grant opportunities in collaboration with the Resource Development Director, Executive Director, program managers, and the fundraising team.
• Conduct activities to steward institutional donors.
• Write grant applications and prepare proposal documents for submission.
• Once a grant is secured, support activities that see a grant through its full life cycle.
• With the help of our Salesforce database, maintain schedules of all due dates, grant and contract activities.
• Coordinate grantmaking with other activities of the Resource Development team.
• Support TND’s communications efforts.
• Represent TND to funders.

Desirable Qualifications:

• A commitment to TND’s mission.
• Three years or more of fundraising and grant writing experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (required).
• Ability to manage a large volume of activity and to meet deadlines.
• Strong data acumen, comfortable with spreadsheets and databases.
• Strong computer skills.
• Detail-oriented, well organized, and the ability to work collaboratively and independently.
• Responsible, self-motivated, and able to carry out and prioritize multiple ongoing projects.
• Ability to work across teams and to handle multi-team workflow coordination.
• Familiarity with Massachusetts funders.
• Experience preparing public-sector grants.

To Apply:

Send a cover letter and a copy of your resume.

TND is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring and it is important to us to bring members onto our team who are passionate about our mission and reflect the BIPOC, immigrant, and linguistic backgrounds of the communities we serve.

Opportunity Communities (OppCo) provides human resources for TND.