Grant Writer
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About Grantscout
Grantscout (www.grantscout.com) specializes in helping innovative startups across diverse sectors (spanning AI, biotech, medtech / healthtech, deep tech, energy, etc.) secure non-dilutive funding for their R&D from federal, state, and private foundation sources such as NSF, NIH, DoW, DOE, USDA, DOC, ARPA-H, DARPA, BARDA.
About the Position
We are seeking skilled writers with strong academic backgrounds who enjoy the scientific grant writing process and who want to engage with a broad diversity of cutting-edge science. In this role, you will work directly with top scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs across a wide range of scientific disciplines, helping them meaningfully compete in the current scientific funding landscape and transform their research ideas into compelling, fundable proposals.
Key Qualifications
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD preferred) in a STEM field, with an ability to quickly learn and engage meaningfully with technical concepts outside your core area of expertise.
- Exceptional written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex scientific concepts into clear, persuasive proposal narratives that are tailored to specific audiences.
- Good oral communication skills to collaborate closely with founders, subject matter experts, federal program staff, and internal team members.
- Experience synthesizing technical literature, identifying scientific gaps, and constructing compelling and logical scientific arguments.
- Self-directed work style with the ability to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects while adhering closely to external deadlines.
- General familiarity with federal grant programs is preferred, but not required.
Responsibilities
- Help clients identify non-dilutive funding opportunities aligned with their specific technology, providing strategic guidance on how to map scientific objectives to funding agency priorities and program-specific evaluation criteria.
- Design and manage multi-opportunity, multi-agency funding pipelines that maximize each client’s chances of securing non-dilutive funding.
- Plan, write, and submit competitive proposals across federal, state, and private foundation funding programs.
- Work closely with founders and technical teams to develop/refine proposal documents, such as project narratives, commercialization plans, and supporting documents.
- Stay up-to-date on funding program announcements and rapidly shifting agency priorities to provide topical information to clients.
Compensation & Benefits
- Full-time
- Fully remote (based in Canada / US)
- Base salary: 70k - 110k (CAD/USD) + benefits + uncapped bonus tied to the proposals you win and firm performance.
Interested?
Please send your CV + 1-3 page writing sample (such as a previous grant, manuscript, etc.) to [email protected].
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GrantScout is an American venture-backed company located in California leveraging state-of-art AI to simplify the process of searching for, applying to, and managing government funding opportunities.