Development and Communications Senior Associate (Grant Writer)

WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.

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 110-year-old nonprofit, human service organization. As a senior member of an established development and communications team, join us in our collaboration with human service administrators to:

We are eager to hear from you. Apply online at https://www.wiscs.org/careers/or send a resume to HRA@wiscs.org

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 assistance in all areas of development and communication including data collection, publications, marketing, and reporting to funders.

Essential Functions:

• Conceptualize and develop high level and complex proposals. Using strong writing and editing skills complete all assigned writing projects and assist in editing the work of others in the department and agency.
• Develop and write agreed upon funding proposals and applications to government entities (federal, state, county and city), foundations, United Way and other funding sources.
• Provides leadership to large grant proposals, as assigned.
• Performs needed research for funding proposals and applications and other agency planning and writing.
• Collects, writes, and archives success stories to be available for the development department and broader agency use
• Provides oversite to monthly external and internal WCS newsletter.
• Works in conjunction with the Director of Development and Communication in implementing the agency's development plan and fund-raising activities including creative input, product development, and clerical support.
• Has knowledge of and supports ongoing expansion and updating of all electronic media presences.
• Works on special writing projects with members of the WCS Executive Team.
• In partnership with the Director and other department staff, responsible for developing relationships with the media and securing ongoing coverage of WCS work.
• Prepare Media and Press releases for review by the Director of Development and Communication and the WCS Executive Team and distribute them to the appropriate media channels.
• Assist in donor identification, cultivation, and recognition: develop and strengthen foundation and corporate relationships, maintain interagency contacts, provide a presence on relevant committees in coordination with director.Solicits donations, advertising, and in-kind goods/services to promote WCS programs and special events.
• Assist with special event planning and execution.
• Assist Program Directors and Leadership Staff in searching for grants and other appropriate funding mechanisms and opportunities and developing new programs and services.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assists in gathering agency statistics and external data related to the areas in which we work such as justice system, reentry, behavioral health and others
• Contributes to the maintenance of a central agency filing system for currently funded programming and other projects.
• Assists with public relations strategizing.
• Creation of writing templates for specific uses.
• Regularly updates records of submitted proposals and applications; continually updates results as they become known.
• Assist in preparing presentations for service organizations, church groups, potential donors, etc. May speak and deliver presentations on behalf of the agency as requested. Attends conferences, community meetings and community building events to represent the agency as requested.
• Assist in supervising interns placed in the Development and Communication Department
• Contributes relevant statistics, evidence-based practices articles and other pertinent reports to resource files.