Grant Writer

Make a bigger difference

At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you’ll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
• We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.
• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.
• Generous vacation time and paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.
• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.
• You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference:
As a member of the Institutional Relations (IR) Team, the Grant Writer reports to the Director of Institutional Relations. The Grant Writer is responsible for managing a portfolio of grants to support programs, operations, and capital projects. Working with the Institutional Relations Team, as well as leadership across JB departments and program divisions, the Grant Writer is responsible for managing grants throughout the lifecycle, from initial prospect identification, research, cultivation, grant writing and submission to stewardship and final reporting.

Some responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Identify and research foundation and corporate prospects; cultivate, solicit and steward relationships with grantors to support JB’s mission, programs, and strategic plan.
• Work collaboratively with IR, program, and budget staff to develop proposal content, including proposed program structure, staffing, clinical models, and budget.
• Write and edit a high volume of grant proposals and reports for existing and potential philanthropic funders as well as in response to government solicitations (RFPs). Organize and prepare all supplementary materials.
• Represent the agency with funders, at site visits and meetings, and in calls.
• Track and report on status, successes, and plans to achieve your individual and team fundraising goals and to ensure timely and appropriate follow-up with funders.
• Maintain complete and up-to-date donor and research files and Raiser’s Edge records.
• Other duties as assigned.

TO QUALIFY:

• Minimum of three years’ related work experience.
• Bachelor’s in related field required or the equivalent.

EDUCATION / TRAINING PREFERRED:

• Minimum of three years’ related work experience.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills and proven experience writing foundation grant proposals.
• Understanding of New York human service delivery landscape and the provider community as well as mental health care, child welfare, and related systems preferred.
• Ability to manage several assignments concurrently and work well with others under time pressure.
• Strong computer skills, particularly in Microsoft Office, research tools, and Raiser’s Edge.

If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:

• Generous paid time off in addition to agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are:
The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:
We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.