Job Description
Designation: Grant Writer
Location : Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
Position: Full time
Qualification: Preferred Postgraduate/Graduate
Experience: 3-4 Years.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of grant writers and deliver quality grant proposals.
- Familiar with major institutional donors such as USAID, European Union etc.
- Coordinate weekly and monthly meetings with executive and key staff members to inform fundraising efforts and grant narratives.
- Manage the grants process for current and prospective donors, all on-time as per deadlines.
- Write reports and collect necessary program information in order to communicate a full picture of highlights and successes to funders.
- Interpret and follow sponsor regulations, requirements, guidelines, and instructions. Meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval.
- Apply technical expertise to strengthen and improve the proposal-writing process by evaluating and re-designing strategies, approaches, and policies. Implement changes as needed.
- Compile and organize references into one coherent library or list for faculty. Build reference libraries for faculty and other grant writers as needed.
- Demonstrate strong leadership, communication, and time management skills.
- Maintain a funding calendar/pipeline of activity.
Eligibility of Profile
- Post-Graduation degree in journalism, English, Social Sciences or a related field or comparable work experience. Certification or continuing education in grant writing, proposal development and/or fundraising a strong plus.
- At least three years of professional experience in grant writing/fundraising preferred. Strong writing skills and strong project management skills are both essential to this role.
- Office computer skills (Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint);
- The position requires collaboration with executive, program, and development staff.
PREFERRED SKILLS
Expert computer skills, Execute complex instruction, Good Researcher.
About US
Doctors For You (DFY) is a registered society, registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860 Section 21 having registration no. F-56886(Mum). DFY is a pan India humanitarian organization with international presence and has been working in various disaster hit zones since the last 14 years. DFY focuses on providing medical care to the vulnerable communities during crisis and non-crisis situations, emergency medical aid to people affected by natural disaster, conflicts and epidemics. We are also committed to reducing disaster risk to human society by delivering training and capacity development in emergency preparedness and response. The work of DFY is guided by humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, and neutrality. It offers services and assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, class, caste, religion and gender. Doctors for You was founded in India in 2007, by doctors, medical students and like-minded people with a vision of “Health for all.” Currently, DFY is working on various projects in different states of India involving health professionals, Disaster Management Practitioners, Social Workers and Administrative Staff. The organization received several awards viz. The SAARC Award (2010), The British Medical Journal Group Award (2009), Golden Ruby Award (2015) and recognition from state governments for its outstanding contribution to the humanitarian field.
Interested candidate can send their CV to hr@doctorsforyou.org & copy hrm.central@doctorsforyou.org, ppsa.bihar@doctorsforyou.org