Senior Writer-Institutional Giving

Reports To: Director of Institutional Giving

Tenacity is a Boston-based nonprofit organization that empowers under-resourced youth to graduate from high school and succeed in post-secondary education. Since 1999, Tenacity has delivered high-dosage youth enrichment programs integrating literacy, life skills, racket sports, fitness, and social-emotional development to students aged 6–22 across Boston, Worcester, and Chelsea. Tenacity students achieve a 95% high school graduation rate and 75% post-secondary success rate — outcomes that far exceed city and state averages.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core to everything we do.

Tenacity seeks an experienced, articulate, and tech-savvy Senior Writer to join its Institutional Giving team. Collaborating closely with the Director of Institutional Giving in a dynamic work environment, the Senior Writer will take the lead in generating compelling grant proposals and reports for foundations, corporations, and government agencies.

This is an exciting time to join Tenacity’s institutional and overall development efforts. Guided by a new 10-Year Vision for Strategic Growth, Tenacity is striving to enhance our services and empower more youth to graduate high school, succeed in college or other post-secondary education, and pursue their life dreams. Tenacity’s annual institutional budget of $1M+ will need to expand further over the coming years to support new growth initiatives.

By developing high-quality proposals and reports for institutional partners, the Senior Writer will be helping Tenacity reach our organizational goals, and strengthening youth from Boston and beyond.

• Collaborate with the Director of Institutional Giving on the strategic approach for each proposal
• Review funder guidelines thoroughly and ensure adherence to them
• Attend funder information sessions
• Take the lead on writing compelling letters of inquiry (LOI’s), proposals, and reports to existing and new institutional partners
• Obtain data and other information from Tenacity’s Program Leadership, and Operations Department staff to inform proposals and reports
• Prepare organizational and project budgets, and budget narratives, for proposals and reports
• Gather and/or prepare required attachments for proposals and reports
• Utilize AI to enhance proposals and reports, or to improve or accelerate the document development process
• Submit grant deliverables through online portals in a timely manner
• Stay current on studies of the challenges facing youth in Massachusetts; incorporate data and findings into grant narratives
• Stay abreast of developments and trends in the fields of youth development, fitness, education, and college/post-secondary success
• As needed, conduct prospect research to identify potential new foundation, corporate, and governmental grant targets
• Draft brief synopses of grant opportunities for the Director; assist in outreach to funders as needed

• Check shared grant trackers regularly; create independent proposal and report submission schedules to ensure all deadlines are met
• Save final versions of narratives, budgets, and unique attachments to shared SharePoint folders in a timely manner
• Record all actions in Raiser’s Edge NXT, Tenacity’s CRM, and update grant trackers regularly, to accurately reflect real-time proposal and report deadlines, submissions, status, and next steps
• Collaborate with the Director, and Development Operations Manager to:
• Research and implement new technology solutions to monitor and manage the annual grants calendar
• Help develop more efficient systems for tracking each grant – from the research phase all…