Grants Associate 105 views3 applications

About Muso

Muso’s mission is to eliminate preventable deaths rooted in poverty. We build health systems to save lives by reaching patients faster, within hours of the moment they become sick. Muso has spent more than a decade iterating on our innovative Proactive Care model, preparing it for scale. We have documented rapid health improvements across the populations we serve: a 2018 study found that communities we reach in Mali, which previously saw some of the world’s highest child mortality rates, sustained the lowest child mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa for five years and ultimately reached a rate on par with that of the United States.

We provide proactive health care to 350,000 patients across nine sites in peri-urban and rural Mali, and embed rigorous academic research and strategic advocacy to identify and share strategies that can accelerate global efforts for child survival, maternal health, and universal health coverage. Given the transformations in health care access and survival Muso has documented, over the next five years our direct service, research, and advocacy will work to advance a new model of care for community health systems. Learn more about our work at www.musohealth.org.

About the Position

More than five million children die every year and more than half the world’s population lives without access to essential health care. To take on these enormous injustices, Muso is growing exponentially. We plan to grow our budget from $8 million in 2019 to up to $18 million per year by 2023 in order to support us to reach up to one million patients and improve care for tens of millions of people through changes in global policy and practice. To get there, we will pursue significant growth in our foundation and corporate, individual, and bi- and multi-lateral partnerships, and build systems to manage and expand our current partnerships with over 40 institutions and a committed group of individual donors.

In this context, Muso’s Grants Associate will act as a critical anchor to our development team and fundraising initiatives across our revenue streams. This role will support two cross-cutting areas necessary to grow our partnerships: grant writing and management, and prospect research. They will be responsible for developing applications, reports, and materials for funding partners, generating content that logically and persuasively outlines Muso’s vision as it aligns with prospective partners’ priorities. As relationship managers cultivate partnerships, the Grants Associate will drive internal project management, grant writing, and submission of deliverables. Additionally, they will be responsible for scoping prospective partners, and supporting the development team to prioritize next steps towards aligned partnerships.

The ideal candidate will enter the position with some sector experience and an initial understanding of the field’s stakeholders and landscape, which they will deploy strategically in managing materials for funders and scoping new prospects. They will possess exceptional writing, logical thinking, and persuasive communication skills. This candidate will be resilient, comfortable with managing competing and shifting priorities that can come with rapid and ambitious organizational growth, and will have the drive, detail orientation, and prioritization skills necessary to proactively drive forward high-quality work independently and collaboratively. To these ends, the hiring team will place a high value on additional value-adding experience, like French language skills to collaborate with francophone teammates, sector experience in global health or similar fields, and experience writing or supporting complex institutional funding relationships with funders such as USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Finally, they will have an unswerving commitment to social justice and global health equity. We are looking for a candidate excited by the prospect of long-term professional growth within a dynamic and rapidly-expanding organization.

Based in San Francisco, CA or Bamako, Mali, this position will report to the Foundation Partnerships Manager and work in close collaboration with other development team members and executive leadership. This role will join a rapidly-growing development and communications team working between the United States and Mali.

Responsibilities

Grant Writing and Management (75% FTE)

• Develop, write, edit, and prepare applications, reports, and other materials for a range of institutional and individual partnership opportunities.
• Lead back-of-house support to current funding relationships, coordinating work against upcoming deliverable deadlines, tracking progress towards partnership requirements, and monitoring organizational compliance against funding agreements.
• Engage in collaborative communications with staff in other departments to support partnership needs, including design, finance, research, and programs teammates.
• Identify opportunities for grants management process improvement, coordinating with the development operations lead to implement creative solutions. In particular, support building improved systems for managing complex institutional grants and tracking restricted funding, and oversee the use of those systems in practice.
• Develop materials and processes to improve application and report development efficiency.
• As needed, assist with other partnership-related projects and provide operations and administrative support to the development team.

Prospect Research (25% FTE)

• Scope new partners through thorough prospect research and relationship mapping, presenting opportunity summaries to wider development team.
• Support relationship managers across Muso’s partnership types to evaluate new prospects, and prioritize next steps.
• Standardize and manage team-wide prospecting processes.

Desired Skills and Experience

Required

• Professional writing experience, preferably in a development environment, with excellent written and verbal communications skills that flex to context and audience. This candidate must have a demonstrable propensity for structured and logical thinking, as well as persuasive and relatable communications.
• Ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively across departments, cultures, languages, and time zones.
• Superb attention to detail, prioritization and organization skills, and skill for system management and improvement.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and produce high-quality work in a deadline-driven environment.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt in a rapidly-growing team and organization.
• Commitment to social justice and global health equity.
• English language fluency.

Not Required, But A Plus

• 1-2 years of sector experience in global health, international development, or philanthropy, with an early-career understanding of actors and funding landscape and processes.
• Experience writing or supporting complex institutional grants, including bi- and multi-lateral funding relationships.
• Professional French language proficiency.
• Familiarity with working in a nonprofit context.
• Familiarity with Salesforce or similar relationship management software.

Compensation and Benefits

For a position based in San Francisco, compensation will be $50,000-$55,000 per year, commensurate with experience. A health insurance package will be included. This position will receive up to 20 days of vacation annually and one sick day per month based on date of hire, as well as major U.S. holidays. This role will also receive support for professional development opportunities.

Muso is an equal opportunity employer.