Grant Writer and Marketing Manager
Position: Grants & Marketing Manager
Hours: Full-time 9:00 am to 5:00 pm with occasional evenings and weekends, as needed:
Reports to: Director of Advancement & External Communications
Salary: $52,000 a year
LifeScene (formerly Family & Children’s Services) has a history of serving the residents of Lynn and surrounding communities since 1885. As a multiservice community nonprofit, we build brighter futures and strengthen the life skills of families, children, and individuals of all ages.
Our services offered in a range of delivery options help participants develop the skills needed to build stable, productive, and healthy lives. With offices in Lynn and Chelsea we offer home-based, center-based and group set programming reflective of the communities served by offering parent leadership training, support groups, youth development services, community health education, case management, support and stabilization services, advocacy for court-involved youth, and emergency financial assistance in multiple languages.
The benefits our career professionals enjoy: In addition to a rewarding career that lets you help shape parents’ and children's futures, LifeScene provides a competitive compensation package that includes:
· Medical, dental, and vision
· 2x per month work from home days
· Flexible spending account
· Health Reimbursement Account
· Life Insurance and short-term disability
· ½ day Summer Fridays
· Paid time off
· Referral program
· Sign-on bonus
Position Summary: We are looking for a Grants & Marketing Manager that can lead the grants and marketing process. With the goal of securing new grants and expanding the agency’s base of followers and donors the role will split between the activities of grant writing and assisting in the promotional awareness and social marketing activities.
In this position, you will co-lead our external communications and produce high-quality content that engages funders, sponsors, and participants, and builds organizational brand recognition. The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator (written and verbal) with brilliant presentation and organizational skills.
Grant Writer Responsibilities:
· Maintains quality results by using templates: following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone; maintaining proposal support databases.
· Writes revises, and edits drafts including executive summaries, conclusions, and organization credentials
· Gathers proposal information by identifying sources of information, coordinating submissions and collections, and identifying and communicating risks associated with proposals.
· Prepares proposals by determining concepts, gathering and formatting information, writing drafts, and obtaining approvals. Meets proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering writing, review, approval, and transmittal.
· Research, write, edit, and oversee production and distribution of grants, e-newsletter and participant/donor print mailer campaigns.
Marketing Responsibilities:
· Research, write, and collect program case stories and photographs to create informative and interesting press releases, press kits, newsletters, and related marketing materials such as bylined articles, white papers, print and online content and website management.
· Maintain social media platforms (including website, Twitter page, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube)
· Develop and implement effective communication strategies that build donor and corporate engagement, program/brand awareness, platform engagement and movement across all channels.
· Manage social media presence and online advertising campaigns while also developing media partnerships, platforms, and lists observing media activity reports.
· Update company website with new content following SEO practices
· Build brand awareness through online advertising, social media, and industry placements
Qualities and Preferred Skills:
· Knowledge of digital design tools, search engine optimization (SEO), web analytics (Google Analytics) and Google AdWords, content management tools (WordPress), and social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc.).
- Adobe InDesign / Lightroom / Photoshop/Canva/ Adobe Premiere Pro / Final Cut Pro / Social Pilot/ Microsoft Office Suite/ Dropbox/ Google Suites
- Critical thinking skills are essential. Highly flexible, organized, and able to prioritize the urgent and important. Respectful, not easily flustered, mature, good-natured.
- Proven project management skills. Significant experience managing freelance writers, graphic designers, and videographers. Proficiency in digital marketing (content, systems, campaigns, measurement)
- Keen listener, detail-oriented, able to multi-task. Must thrive working independently while enjoying collaborating with staff and vendors.
hOW TO APPLY: Applicant should send a cover letter and resume via email to Kate Walton at jobs@fcslynn.org. In addition, the subject line must also contain the job title and candidate’s first and last name.
LifeScene is an equal opportunity employer and is strongly committed to building and maintaining a diverse community. Persons from diverse backgrounds including women, communities of color, the LGBTQ+ community, people with lived experience and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
LifeScene’s vaccine policy requires all new employees be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, including having received all eligible booster doses, at the time of hire