Grant Writer

Mary’s Place provides safe and inclusive shelter and services for women, children and families on their journey out of homelessness. We operate a women’s day center and several 24x7 family centers/shelters in King County. We serve hundreds of families – moms, dads, and children – providing a safe place for them to be inside and together at night, along with food, showers, clothing, and access to housing and employment resources. We believe that no one’s child should sleep outside.

Valuing diversity and championing equity are core values at Mary’s Place. Mary’s Place is an equal opportunity employer with a culturally diverse work environment and a commitment to social justice.

The Grant Writer is a key contributor to building our grant database and partnerships through seeking appropriate opportunities and successful application of foundation, corporate, and government grants. This role is primarily focused on supporting our current capital campaign around our Burien site but will also support other grant applications as needed. Both previous capital campaign and federal grant experience is ideal.

This is a full-time, exempt position with a compensation of $70 - 85K DOE. The Grant Writer reports to the Associate Grants Director within the Institutional Giving team and does not supervise other staff. The position is based at our administrative offices in South Lake Union, and a hybrid work schedule is available.

1. Develop strong cross-organizational relationships with key partners on the Programs, Operations, and Finance teams to ensure current and clear understanding of funding needs and executional capacity/capabilities.
2. Research prospective private foundations, corporations, and government entities (City, County, State, and federal) to find and evaluate new and future grant opportunities.
3. Provide guidance and expertise in the interpretation of and adherence to funder requirements and administrative guidelines, including federal compliance.
4. Lead application process for all identified and/or assigned grant proposals, including preparation, documentation, submission, and management to decision.
5. Raise $10 million in FY25, and $18 million total towards overall $35 million campaign goal for the Burien Project, alongside the Individual Giving, Corporate, and leadership teams.
6. Contribute towards Development’s overall $21 million general fundraising goal.
7. Maintain shared Grants Tracker calendar of submissions and other deadlines, in order to track schedules and due dates for info sessions, proposals, applications, LOIs, etc.
8. Lead internal cross-team kick-off meetings to ensure accurate and complete information transfer from pre-award application to post-award grants management.
9. Provide stewardship and build strong relationships with grant donors as needed to support future renewal conversations.
10. Interview and work closely with Programs, Operations, and Data teams to understand program and service updates, changes, impact metrics, and data, in order to write compelling narratives, proposals, and reports.
11. Maintain current records in Raiser’s Edge database including grant application prospecting, tracking, and stewardship.
12. Assist with other Development projects as requested.