Grant Research & Application Specialist for Creative Business / Education Brand

Job Type: Part-Time to Full-Time, Remote
Schedule: Flexible hours with required attendance at some tea ---------- etings in the morning Eastern Time
Location: Remote
Company: From Craft to Cash / The Craft House

We are looking for an experienced, detail-oriented, and highly independent Grant Research & Application Specialist to help our growing creative business, education brand, and craft-based training company secure grant funding.

Our company supports creative entrepreneurs, crafters, students, schools, and small business owners through education, coaching, digital programs, custom products, design services, and business development resources. We are looking for someone who can learn our business deeply, identify aligned grant opportunities, and consistently submit strong applications that help us access funding for growth, education, workforce development, entrepreneurship, creative arts, community impact, equipment, training, and business expansion.

This person should not need constant hand-holding. We need someone who can think strategically, research thoroughly, write clearly, stay organized, and manage a grant pipeline from beginning to end.

Responsibilities include:
- Research grant opportunities that align with our business, mission, programs, audience, and future growth goals.
- Identify corporate grants, state and local grants, federal grants, small business grants, creative arts grants, education grants, workforce development grants, women-owned business grants, minority-owned business grants, community impact grants, and entrepreneurship grants.
- Review grant requirements carefully and determine if we are a strong fit before applying.
- Maintain a grant tracker with deadlines, eligibility requirements, award amounts, required documents, application status, follow-up dates, and next steps.
- Apply to multiple grant opportunities per day when qualified opportunities are available.
- Draft strong, customized grant applications that clearly explain our business, impact, goals, use of funds, community benefit, and alignment with the grantor’s mission.
- Help improve our grant application strategy over time with the goal of reaching a 10% or higher grant win rate.
- Research the grantor’s goals, values, past winners, funding priorities, and decision-makers before submitting applications.
- Recommend when we should send a pitch deck, business summary, letter of introduction, follow-up email, or supporting materials before or after applying.
- Coordinate with our internal design team when a pitch deck, capability statement, one-page summary, budget document, or visual support is needed.
- Help gather and organize required documents such as business information, financial details, program descriptions, founder bio, impact data, photos, testimonials, budgets, and projections.
- Write persuasive but accurate responses that include data, measurable outcomes, community impact, and clear use of funds.
- Make sure each application is tailored to the specific grant and not generic.
- Track follow-up opportunities after applications are submitted.
- Suggest ways we can become more “grant ready,” including improving our business plan, pitch deck, data, impact reporting, budgets, program descriptions, and documentation.

The ideal candidate has:
- Experience researching and applying for grants.
- Strong writing skills, especially for business, nonprofit, education, creative, or community impact funding.
- Excellent research skills.
- Strong organization and project management skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage deadlines.
- Ability to understand a business model and translate it into strong funding opportunities.
- Experience with grant databases, government grant sites, corporate grant platforms, or funding research tools.
- Ability to write in a clear, compelling, and strategic way.
- Comfort working with a fast-moving small business team.
- Good communication skills and the ability to ask smart questions when clarification is needed.
- High attention to detail.
- Ability to track applications, deadlines, documents, and follow-ups without being reminded.

Preferred experience:
- Experience with small business grants.
- Experience with women-owned, minority-owned, creative, education, entrepreneurship, workforce development, or community impact grants.
- Experience writing grant proposals, letters of intent, pitch decks, business plans, or funding narratives.
- Experience creating budgets or use-of-funds summaries for grant applications.
- Experience using tools like Google Drive, Google Sheets, ClickUp, Notion, Airtable, or similar project management systems.

Important expectations:
- We expect this person to be proactive. You should not only wait for us to send you grants. You should be actively researching, building a grant pipeline, and recommending opportunities.
- We want to apply to multiple grants consistently, ideally multiple grants per day when there are qualified opportunities.
- Quality matters. We do not want rushed, copy-and-paste applications. Each application should be customized, aligned with the grantor’s goals, and positioned to give us the best chance of winning.
- Our goal is to improve our grant application process over time and work toward a grant win rate of 10% or higher.
- The schedule is flexible, but you must be available for occasional tea ---------- etings, usually in the morning Eastern Time. Outside of required meetings, you may work on your own schedule as long as deadlines are met and hours are documented.

To apply, please answer the following:
- What grant writing or grant research experience do you have?
- What types of grants have you helped clients apply for?
- Have you ever helped a business or organization win grant funding? If yes, please share examples.
- What grant research tools, databases, or websites have you used?
- How would you d ---------- if a grant is a good fit for our business?
- How do you customize a grant application so it does not sound generic?
- What information would you need from us to make our business more grant ready?
- How would you organize and manage a pipeline of multiple grant applications?
- Are you available for occasional meetings in the morning Eastern Time?
- Please include a short sample of grant writing, funding proposal writing, or business writing if available.

Please start your application with the phrase “Grant Ready” so we know you read the full job post.