Grant Manager; Consultant

Organization Overview:

Street Wise Partners is on a mission to drive career mobility and help build the workforce of today and tomorrow. For more than 25 years, we have expanded access to opportunity through high impact mentoring, career coaching, and employment support, supporting over 25,000 adults on their path to meaningful employment.

Our programs connect unemployed and underemployed adults in New York City and Washington, D.C. to life-changing career opportunities, while providing employers with access to a highly capable talent pool that reflects a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.

Street Wise Partners’ Bridge Program delivers customized, individualized support to job seekers. Through one-on-one mentorship and career coaching, participants build professional skills, social capital, and an expansive network of advocates who open doors and support long term career success.

The organization is entering a new chapter under CEO leadership focused on strategic growth, sharpened program impact, and a materially diversified base of contributed revenue.

Street Wise Partners is hiring a Grant Manager (Independent Contractor) to build the acquisition engine this next chapter requires. This is a builder’s role for a fundraising professional who has run a real pipeline before: someone fluent in moves management, comfortable qualifying prospects independently, and skilled at converting cold relationships into funded partnerships.

You will report to the Chief Development Officer and work in close partnership with the CEO
, taking primary ownership of new business generation across foundation, corporate, and government funding streams. Where this function has historically run on renewal and maintenance, your mandate is acquisition: dossier-level prospect intelligence, a disciplined cultivation cadence, and the proposal infrastructure that turns Street Wise Partners growth strategy into a fundable, forecastable pipeline.

Street Wise Partners has committed to scaling its revenue base substantially over the next several years. This role sits at the center of that push, and its scope will grow as the pipeline proves out.

This is a remote (U.S.) position
; candidates in NYC or D.C. Metro are preferred but not required. This is hourly independent contractor role
, approximately 40 hours per month
. No benefits.

• A steady cadence of 3 to 5 new funding applications submitted per week, across philanthropic, corporate, and government sources, that grows the pipeline rather than just maintaining it.
• A qualified, well-researched prospect portfolio deep enough to underwrite real revenue forecasting, not guesswork.
• A Master Proposal library you built and own, that lets the function move fast without sacrificing quality.
• Pipeline reporting sharp enough that leadership makes decisions off it, not just reads it.

• 40%:
  Prospect Development & Portfolio Management
  • Build and manage an active portfolio of qualified foundation, corporate, and government prospects, each backed by a funder-specific dossier: giving history, program priorities, decision-makers, and cultivation timeline.
  • Apply moves management discipline to advance prospects from identification through qualification to solicitation, in coordination with the Chief Development Officer and CEO.
  • Source new relationship pathways, including via Linked In and funder networks, to keep the top of the pipeline full.
  • Own the portfolio in a shared tracking system built for forward-looking revenue forecasting, not just historical reporting.
  • Own end-to-end submission of every proposal, LOI, and funder report, from first draft through final upload or mail, confirming receipt where required.
• 35%:
  Proposal Strategy…