Development & Communications Senior Associate (Grant Writer)

Combine your leadership and research skills with your exceptional ability to write, edit, proofread, fundraise, and communicate. These skills will aid your contribution to a 114-year-old nonprofit, human service organization. As a senior member of an established development and communication team, join us in our collaboration with human service administrators to:

• Conceptualize and develop high level, complex proposals
• Develop and write agreed upon funding proposals and applications to government entities (federal, state, county and city), foundations, United Way and other funding sources.
• Perform needed research for funding proposals and applications
• Assist in donor identification, cultivation, and recognition
• Many special and varied writing assignments
• Solicit donations, advertising, and in-kind goods/services to promote WCS programs and special events.

As a Development and Communications Senior Associate, you will work closely with the Director of Development and Communication to implement our organization’s development plan and fund-raising activities. You will work on special writing projects with senior level leaders, providing your creative input, product development, and clerical support. Your belief in our mission to “provide innovative opportunities for individuals to overcome adversity” will assist you in cultivating local media relationships to publicly “tell the WCS story”.

Salary is commensurate with education and experience: $65,000 – $80,000

Position Summary: Provides leadership and support in the areas of grant writing, program planning, and program development; writing and timely submission of funding proposals and writing of other significant documents; provides key support of social media presence for agency; provides project leadership in all areas of development and communication including data collection, publications, marketing, and reporting to funders, as needed.

Please see complete job description at www.wiscs.org/careers/