Senior Grant Strategist

About the role

This is not a Standard grant writing role. Social Impact Solutions is hiring a Senior Grant Strategist to help nonprofit clients secure more funding through stronger grant strategy, better funding research, persuasive proposals, and disciplined grant management.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of nonprofit clients and serve as their primary strategic partner for grant planning and execution.
• Lead client communication, facilitate grant planning conversations, ask direct questions, identify missing information, manage expectations, and guide clients toward the strongest funding opportunities.
• Identify high-quality funding opportunities that align with each client’s programs, impact, geography, funding needs, and readiness.
• Build strategic grant calendars and funding plans that help clients focus on the opportunities most likely to produce meaningful results.
• Research, write, edit, and submit persuasive, compliant grant proposals.
• Maintain systems that ensure grant work is organized, deadlines are clear, client responsibilities are tracked, and 90%+ of applications are submitted on or before deadline.
• Help improve our grant systems, templates, research processes, proposal standards, and client workflows.

Qualifications

• Proven success securing foundation, corporate, and government grants.
• The ability to independently prioritize competing deadlines.
• Personally authored 50+ competitive grant proposals across multiple nonprofit organizations or clients.
• Experience managing multiple nonprofit clients or grant projects at the same time.
• Strong grant prospect research experience.
• Experience leading client meetings and managing client communication.
• Exceptional persuasive writing ability.
• Outstanding project management and organizational skills.

Benefits

• Purpose-Driven Work
• Strong Team Collaboration
• Incredible Client Projects
• Remote Options Available
• High ownership in a growing grant services function
• Direct access to founders
• Performance-based bonuses

Pay

$65,000–$105,000 base salary plus performance-based bonuses.

Schedule

Remote, U.S. preferred