Corporate and Foundation Grants Specialist

Salary Range: Please note that the typical Hiring Range is $65,000 - $80,000 annually. Job offers within the range are based on relevant job qualifications and pay equity

The Corporate and Foundation Grants Specialist contributes to Medical Teams International’s calling by supporting the enterprise fundraising goal and growth by providing stable and diversified funding to support. This position identifies, cultivates, solicits, and stewards foundation prospects. In doing so, the Corporate and Foundation Grants Specialist works strategically with internal stakeholders to advance the organization’s strategic plan and ensure good stewardship of foundation relationships in their portfolio.

Medical Teams International Calling:   

Daring to love like Jesus, we boldly break barriers to health and restore wholeness in a hurting world.  

Medical Teams International holds strict child and vulnerable adult safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for misconduct related to sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment & selection, hiring decisions will give due emphasis to assessing candidates’ eligibility thorough background checks, police clearance, and professional reference check processes. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

Proposal Writing and Reporting: 

• Manage grant proposal process by drafting and submitting letters of intent and proposals to obtain funding from non-governmental grantmaking organizations, primarily private and corporate foundations. This includes monitoring proposal deadlines, and ensuring all relevant information is captured in Medical Teams’ donor database. 
• Serve as a resource and subject matter expert for other Corporate Foundations and Relations (CFR) team members. 
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders including CFR relationship specialists, Advancement team members, and Global Programs colleagues to ensure accuracy and meeting all requirements  proper handling of proposals, grants, and reports. 
• Monitor proposal deadlines, manage proposal submissions, and ensure all relevant activities, documents, and communications are captured in Medical Teams’ donor database while maintaining confidentiality of donor information.  
• Develop and maintain meaningful, trusted relationships with Finance and Global Programs to ensure approvals on proposal and report budgets.  
• Manage, in collaboration with CFR team members, the grant queue to ensure workload balance and best use of skills across the CFR team.  
• Manage contracted Grant Writer and Researchers as needed. 

Research, Prospect Development, and Individual Portfolio Management 

• Identify, research, and track prospective private and corporate foundations using relevant search engines/CRM. 
• Establish, build and steward a personal portfolio of foundation relationships, including cultivation and proposal development for prospects.  
• Develop and implement an outreach strategy and timeline for each assigned prospect. 
• Support the cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of select foundations with assigned solicitors of foundation constituents to ensure good relationship management. 
• Update and maintain the grants library of common proposals, templates, reports, and organizational and legal documents. 
• Monitor ‘Daily Gift Report’ to ensure appropriate funding project/constituent designations.  
• Build and steward a personal portfolio of assigned foundation relationships, including cultivation and proposal development for prospects.  

Other Duties 

• Support safeguarding of program participants and employees through promoting an environment of awareness and upholding the code of conduct provisions of Medical Teams Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse & Harassment, Child & Vulnerable Adult protection, and harassment-free workplace policies. Incumbents will remain alert and responsive to any child and adult safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills which will enable you to promote strong safeguarding practices, understand the child and adult safeguarding policy and procedures, and conduct yourself in a manner consistent with the Safeguarding code of conduct and behavior expectations. 
• Attend local and regional meetings for personal professional growth, team collaboration, and relational one-to-one engagement/cultivation of donors.  
• Utilize volunteers when appropriate. 
• Additional duties as assigned  

EDUCATION, LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS 

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Business, Nonprofit Management, English/Literature, International Development, or related field; or any equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting on a year for year basis.  
• Experience writing successful six figure or greater grant proposals for private and corporate foundations. 

Preferred:  

• Knowledge of or experience working in global health programming. 

EXPERIENCE 

• Minimum 4 years’ relevant experience in grant writing, foundations, and nonprofit fundraising.  
• Technical and creative writing and editing experience.  

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES 

Knowledge:  

• Understand Medical Teams’ organizational strategies and its role in the global health and humanitarian response sector.  
• Knowledge of grant writing principles and methods for developing foundation relationships, locally and nationally. 
• Knowledge of successful fundraising strategies. 
• Knowledge of current trends in foundation and donor interests.   
• Familiarity with Salesforce or similar database.  

Skills: 

• Clearly demonstrate and apply computer/technology skills to enhance the fundraising process and maximize productivity.  
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, and attention to detail to produce quality products. 
• Excellent organization, time-management, planning, strategizing, collaboration, and administrative skills. 
• Strong project management skills. 
• Strong research skills to identify, evaluate, and strategize approaches for new funding prospects. 
• Professionally mature, strong judgement skills, self-motivated, and takes responsibility for actions. 
• Strong interpersonal skills. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams. 

Abilities: 

• Commitment to Medical Teams International’s Calling Statement and Core Values. 
• Maintain confidentiality of donor information 
• Display continual organized drive to achieve goals, showing responsibility for self-management. 
• Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of Medical Teams’ international and U.S.-based programs and participate in relevant program meetings. 
• Maintain a “can-do” attitude and explore alternative solutions to meet funder needs when challenges arise. 
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing. 
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including occasional evenings and weekends.  
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with others, including across distances, cultures, and time zones. 
• Ability to work efficiently, with accuracy.  
• Capacity to remain calm under pressure and tight deadlines, specifically when the organization is responding to a crisis. 
• Ability to view situations from different perspectives and challenge fundamental assumptions about accepted ways of doing things. 
• Ability to engage others and build rapport, trust, and positive relationships by understanding others’ business and personal needs; comfortably interacts with donors in social and recreational situations. 
• Ability to travel occasionally within the US. 
• Willingness to proactively contact new funding prospects, despite the risk of possible rejection. 
• Ability to adapt easily to organizational change with a positive attitude and willingness to learn or figure out new ways to accomplish work activities and objectives; flexibility. 
• Ability to handle multiple projects, prioritize, and produce high quality results in a timely manner, working with a high degree of independence.  
• Ability to work constructively and efficiently under pressure, including short timelines. 
• Ability to balance the needs and interests of various stakeholders and make decisions involving competing goals, objectives, and alternatives; prioritizes tasks and redirects work effort in response to changes in priorities. 
• Ability to consistently communicate professionally and effectively with all constituents, at all levels.  

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORKING CONDITIONS  

Physical Requirements: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Frequent use of a personal computer, database and digital platforms, and other office productivity machinery, such as a copy machine and computer printer. 
• Frequently uses hands, fingers, and arms to reach, handle, touch or feel equipment, medical instruments, materials, computer. 
• Frequent communication and exchange of information among colleagues and persons of concern which requires the ability to speak, hear, convey and express oneself. 
• Frequent close vision and the ability to adjust focus. 
• Occasionally ascends/descends stairs, steps, or ladder 
• Occasionally move about inside an office to access file cabinets, office machinery, meet with colleagues, etc. 
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. 
• Seldom to occasionally position oneself to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 
• If in travel status, occasional to frequent traversing over rough or steep terrain in either a motor vehicle or on foot. 

Work Environment: 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet. 
• The employee may be required to travel to remote areas of the world where there are potential health hazards and risks, limited hygiene facilities, extreme weather, and very basic living conditions. 

​​​​​Benefits:

The following information outlines typical benefits available for U.S. based fixed-term employees, working 30 hours or more per week. Actual benefits may be prorated for other than full-time work.  

• Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance 
• Flexible work schedule options 
• Life insurance & AD&D 
• Generous vacation time, sick leave, and up to 12 paid holidays per year 
• 401k retirement plan 
• Employee Assistance Plan 

For a full description of our benefits, you can learn more here.