Grant Writer (Lead Expert Reviewer) at Goodstack

We’re looking for an exceptionally thoughtful, detail-driven Grant Writer to lead high-quality grant research, writing, and review for our nonprofit partners.

You’ll help nonprofits access more funding, faster—identifying relevant opportunities, shaping strong applications, and ensuring every draft is accurate, compelling, and genuinely useful.

If you have a strong grant writing background, enjoy turning complex program information into clear funding narratives, and want your work to support organizations doing meaningful social impact work, this could be the perfect role for you.

As a Grant Writer, your mission will be to:

• Research funding opportunities: Identify, evaluate, and curate relevant grants tailored to each organization’s mission, programs, eligibility, and funding needs.

• Draft excellent applications: Write compelling Letters of Intent (LOIs), grant applications, and supporting narratives aligned to funder requirements.

• Use AI to increase quality and pace: Confidently prompt, guide, and review AI-assisted outputs to accelerate research, drafting, and iteration without compromising accuracy, judgment, or tone.

• Act as lead expert reviewer: Review drafts to ensure they are accurate, persuasive, funder-ready, and easy for nonprofits to use.

• Manage delivery: Balance pace, quality, and care across multiple partner relationships, keeping work moving and expectations clear.

• Build deep context: Work closely with around 25–30 nonprofit partners at any given time, understanding their goals, programs, and impact.

• Improve how we work: Help strengthen our grant support process so we can serve more nonprofits well without compromising quality.

After 3 months, success will look like:

• Producing high-quality grant drafts at a consistent pace.

• Nonprofit partners feel supported, understood, and confident in the work they receive.

• Funding opportunities are well-matched, relevant, and clearly explained.

• AI is used thoughtfully to improve speed, consistency, and quality.

• Drafts are accurate, thoughtful, and tailored to each funder.

• Risks, blockers, or deadline concerns are raised early.

• Our grant support process becomes clearer, stronger, and easier to scale.

This role is a perfect match for you if you have:

• 5 years’ grant writing experience, ideally for nonprofits, charities, or mission-led organizations (with specific experience winning Australian grants).

• Understanding of funding landscapes, eligibility criteria, funder priorities, and what makes a proposal competitive.

• Ability to turn rough context into specific, persuasive, funder-ready narratives.

• Confidence using AI tools to support research, drafting, editing, and quality assurance, and knowing where human judgment must lead.

• Ability to take responsibility, communicate early, and enjoy building in a fast-moving environment.

• Attention to detail; deadlines, geographic nuances, funding restrictions, and structural requirements do not slip past you.

• Partner-first communication; you combine warmth, clarity, and sound judgment in every interaction.

• Process discipline; enjoy clear systems, well-managed workflows, and making the slightly messy feel beautifully organized.

Bonus if you have knowledge or love of:

• A degree from a recognized university, or equivalent evidence of strong analytical thinking.

• Nonprofit fundraising, philanthropy, or corporate social impact.