Foundation Grant Writer Jobs

JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION: The Grant Writer’s responsibilities will include researching grant opportunities, writing compelling proposals and cases for support, and working with hospital teams to ensure we attain available funding.

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

CRITERIA A: Everyday Excellence Values - Employee demonstrates Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their job.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.

• Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.

• Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.

• Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.

• Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.

• Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.

CRITERIA B: Corporate Compliance - Employee demonstrates commitment to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Guidelines and the GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.

• Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.

• Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.

CRITERIA C: Personal Achievement - Employee demonstrates initiative in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.

• Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.

• Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.

CRITERIA D: Performance Improvement - Employee actively participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates quality improvement standards in his/her job performance.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.

• Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.

• Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.

• Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.

CRITERIA E: Cost Management - Employee demonstrates effective cost management practices.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Effectively manages time and resources

• Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization — material, human, and financial.

• Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes

CRITERIA F: Patient & Employee Safety - Employee actively participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee safety practices.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.

• Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.

• Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.

• Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.

JOB FUNCTIONS

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS include, but are not limited to:

1. Work as a positive, professional member of a collaborative team of administrative and fundraising professionals

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Always uphold and demonstrate our organizational vision, mission, and values with both hospital colleagues and external stakeholders

• Ensures that goals and objectives associated with fundraising are consistent with the GHS’s philosophy.

2. Oversee, organize and grow the Foundation’s grant writing efforts, raising $300,000+ annually.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Create grants plan and calendar – including reporting

• Research local, state and federal funding opportunities and prepare and submit grants/proposals and letters of intent/inquiry to fund key hospital and foundation initiatives

• Write informative and inspiring cases for support highlighting programs and initiatives in need of donor support

• Cultivate and steward relationships with appropriate funders to help ensure continued annual support

3. Work closely with the Foundation president, hospital specialties and departments to learn additional opportunities to fund key capital, programmatic and infrastructure projects.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Promote the Foundation’s presence through positive community and hospital visibility on an ongoing basis.

• Attending events held during evening and weekend hours.

4. Performs other duties as assigned.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum of two years professional grant writing related professional writing or communications experience preferred.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, creative writing, or a related area required.

SPECIAL SKILL, LICENSE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

Strong research, writing, communications, organizational and time management skills.

Strong command of the English language

Highly efficient at problem solving, relationship building, collaboration and creative thinking.

Ability to translate complex information into compelling language for potential funders.

Skilled in AP styled writing highly preferred.

HIPAA REQUIREMENTS:

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records w/o limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, information related to patient location, religious beliefs and/or public health records.

SAFETY REQUIREMENTS:

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps and linen, PPE, exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, patient identification, administers/receives/collects meds/blood order or products, validates, transports, monitors or observes patients for procedures including infusion pumps, monitors clinical alarms for all ages.