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Job description

Are you an enthusiastic and skilled funding grant writer? Be a part of our small but committed team as a pro-active grant writer volunteer for a small national charity supporting people affected by a debilitating pain condition.

We are looking for 2 skilled grant writer volunteers who can take the lead in researching appropriate funds and writing grant bids to help us continue offering our support services and resources and helping us create new programmes and services to support patients and their families who have been affected by a poorly understood chronic condition; Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS).

As our Grant Writer you will be responsible for identifying appropriate grant opportunities, and managing the grant development and proposal process from research to submitting grant applications with any supporting documents.

As our grant writer, you will:

  • Identify appropriate sources of funding where we fit their criteria 
  • Write appropriately tailored grant/funding bids that meet funders’ interests and requirements and to write any additional documents in support of funding bids
  • Help develop a Trusts and Foundations strategy to help create and maintain strong and diverse income that meets Burning Nights CRPS Support’s funding needs
  • Create a calendar of grant deadlines and track submitted funding proposals
  • Help us develop a case for support 
  • Report on grant usage and impact
  • Review all grant/bid feedback and ensure knowledge is shared, so that learning informs us for future approaches to grants

If you are an experienced grant writer or you just enjoy researching and persuasive writing then we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for a volunteer who has:

  • Experience of being a grant writer, project proposal writer and editing skills
  • Excellent writing, analytical, and research skills are essential
  • Creative and persuasive written and spoken communication skills 
  • Self-motivated and highly-organised
  • Ability to work remotely
  • Ability to search online databases and other sources to identify appropriate funds
  • Ability to understand and appeal to funders’ differing needs
  • Ability to organise your own work, track and report back regularly 
  • Experience setting up funding email templates (desirable)
  • Ability to quickly understand the needs of our organisation  and our service users
  • Understands the resource constraints of a small charity and can work with these
  • Open to feedback
  • Ideally have good network with people, organisations and charities which can help us to support our projects
  • Determination to get the job done

Skills

  • Project proposal writing
  • Grant writing and knowledge of charity grant giving culture
  • Good networking skills and contacts with grant giving organisation
  • Marketing and communications
  • Content writing and story-telling
  • Good online fundraising skills
  • Good editing and proof reading skills and attention to detail
  • Team player who is comfortable working with various volunteers within Burning Nights CRPS Support to collate information required to write funding applications

If you don't have the exact experience, but are interested to volunteer with us, please apply! We would be thrilled to find out about how your interests and experience match with our needs or what we are doing.

Other Information

This role is done remotely using Zoom, Slack and email. You would be working closely with the charity’s Chair and with other trustees. However we would have regular updates and remote meetings as needed so we know you are getting the support you need.

We have an induction process that will help successful applicant to understand how our Charity operates and full support of all our volunteers.

Minimum of 3-6 hours per week for this role

Ideal commitment of 3 months or more (but not specific)

Posted by
Burning Nights CRPS Support View profile Company size 51 - 100

To drive change for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) & ensure people whose lives have been touched by this condition are not alone.

Posted on: 26 September 2024
Closing date: 23 December 2024 at 23:59
Job ref: GW09/2024
Tags: Communications,Fundraising,Health / Medical,Mental Health,Statutory,Grants