The Senior Grant and Policy Manager is responsible for leading and managing the entire process of written content creation for all of Clark Street’s clients, across multiple technologies and industries, from concept development and messaging, to drafting and submission. This includes managing the entire grant writing and submission process for multiple clients, as well as developing white papers, preproposals, RFI responses and other written documents and presentation materials, to both technical and non-technical audiences, for Clark Street and Clark Street clients. In addition to managing the grant process, the Senior Grant and Policy Manager will lead the research and development of memos, position papers, OpEds and other written materials, in collaboration with each of Clark Street’s Client Execution Teams, targeting technology and policy audiences.
Location: Silicon Valley, Washington DC, and Virtual
- Managing the end-to-end grant proposal development and submission process for multiple companies and technologies (in collaboration with the team at Clark Street and our clients), starting from messaging and storyboarding all the way through drafting, review and submission
- Developing strategies, through direct engagement with clients, the government, think tanks and others, for how Clark Street’s clients can address key policy objectives (e.g. Justice 40), while also achieving their technical and business objectives for each grant proposal
- Researching and developing technology and impact messaging (both industry and policy) for different projects, connecting our clients’ capabilities to critical public policy objectives associated with technology, supply chain, national security, societal impact and other relevant factors
- Translating loosely defined, mission-oriented objectives for a project into concrete and actionable objectives and then driving those to high-impact written deliverables
- Managing each project’s team to ensure high quality content is created and submitted on time, including defining objectives and the final deliverables
- Leading discussions to generate new insights and concept strategies, and quickly turning them into written content that is focused and compelling to multiple audiences
- Developing a scalable process for managing and communicating collateral development, timelines, and updates to internal and external audiences
- Thinking holistically across the Clark Street client base to identify trends and generate thought pieces for policy and investor audiences
- Managing and mentoring Clark Street’s Analysts, including framing up research and technical analyses required for developing compelling value propositions and storylines, reviewing and providing direction on work products, and coaching on communicating effectively through written collateral
- Ability to think creatively and independently about how to position clients to have compelling narratives
- Self-starter with ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Track record of successfully winning grant proposals and drafting high impact, widely read written content (grant writing for for-profit entities, a big plus)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills
- Minimum of 4 years of experience writing proposals for federal government grant and/or technical-policy writing
- MS or PhD degree in a hard-science or engineering domain (e.g. material sciences, physics, physical chemistry, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and/or similar subject matter)