Grants and Bid Manager at Flare Emergency Response

What you’ll be doing: You will be identifying, seeking out, and creating opportunities to apply for new grant applications, RFPs and creating proposals. You’re a storyteller, master organizer, data guru, and particularly a strong relationship builder. You know that the biggest grants will come from partnerships, and you’ll have an eye for picking the right people, organizations and funders to approach. You are a self-starter and can create your own portfolio of work.

Requirements

Basic requirements for the role:

• Excellent communication skills both written and oral with skills in story-telling.
• Experience in writing bids or grant documentation.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Excellent time management and project management skills.
• Ability to build and execute an actionable roadmap that delivers results, fast.
• Ability to engage and influence at senior levels and build relationships.
• A University degree or equivalent (university of life counts too).
• Experience working with US and European bilaterals, philanthropies, private foundations, impact investors and innovative funding arms within traditional donor agencies is a huge plus!