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Temporary Grant Writer

Entrepreneurship@Cornell

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Ithaca, NY

Who We Are:

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is a pioneer of purpose-driven science and home to Cornell University's second largest population of students, faculty and staff. We work across disciplines to tackle the challenges of our time through world-renowned research, education and outreach. The questions we probe and the answers we seek focus on three overlapping concerns: natural and human systems; food, energy and environmental resources; and social, physical and economic well-being. CALS is fundamentally invested in improving the lives of people, their environments and their communities both in New York state and around the world.

Entrepreneurship at Cornell (EaC) is a university-wide program that energizes Cornell's entrepreneurship ecosystem. We run a lot of our own programming activities -- like big conferences, hackathons, internship and mentorship programs, webinars, a business accelerator, and wonderful co-working spaces and competitions -- but we also support and amplify all of the amazing entrepreneurship activity that is happening across our campus... and there is so much activity! Cornell is a special place for entrepreneurially-minded students, faculty, staff and alumni. We look forward to engaging with you.

Our goal is to broaden student participation in university programming. We organize 6 experiential learning events each academic year that expose students (undergrad through PhD) to entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. These multifaceted events bring together students to form interdisciplinary teams to rapidly prototype solutions for real world problems. Using tenets of game theory, organizational behavior, and psychology we provide students a weekend of exploration and skills building in an environment of psychological safety.

For the past eight years these events have impacted thousands of students, we have seen the positive outcomes that result from participation. Students start companies, re-ignite their curiosity for the world around them, discover the career path they want to pursue. Students make valuable connections to faculty and employers. By interacting with others from different backgrounds, nationalities, degrees, majors, and socioeconomics; our students recognize and appreciate the value of diversity.

What you will do:

We would like to formalize our teaching model in a way that can be replicated at other schools, companies, and across society. We aim to do this by securing grant funding to these efforts.

Currently programming is supported through corporate sponsorship, and we operate in a very lean manner. With grant funding we intend to hire research assistance/support to study our methods, quantify our impact, and publish in academic journals so that others can replicate and amplify human capital, which we see as the future of work in a knowledge economy. Society is only as good as its people. We believe by helping each person develop to their full potential, identify their intrinsic motivation, and live with intention we can improve the future for everyone.

Key Responsibilities:

• Write grant applications (private foundations, government, etc.) and reports

• Conduct prospect research on potential financial opportunities that are in alignment with the office's vision, mission, and goals

• Work collaboratively with collegiate partners to collect and analyze existing data (or new data) for proposals

• Ability to work independently, but with support from the program manager, research assistant, and director

• Interact with internal and external stakeholders (faculty, staff, students, industry leaders)

• Write grant proposal(s), press releases, and communications

• Review feedback survey responses, photos, videos, and more to understand our program and its impact over the past 8yrs

• Contribute your ideas and feedback as it is in alignment with the vision, mission, and goals or our programs

• Interest and enthusiasm to work on this project and to create interest and excitement with potential foundations and government around these efforts

What We Need:

• Multi-tasking, organizational skills- maintain and oversee workflow processes to ensure timely data collection, composition, and submission of grant proposals

• Prior experience with proposal submission and fund-raising process

• Strong Research skills to identify funding opportunity announcements (FOAs), and interpret requirements, strategize, and recommend matching grantors, and prepare proposal submissions

• Handle confidential matters with utmost integrity

• Working knowledge of computers/word processing programs (Word, Excel)

• Experience in grant writing, and/or other writing experience

• Experience creating a budget

Compensation: $25-$50/hour depending on experience

Location:

Work can be done remotely within approved states or if there is a preference to work onsite, office location is in Ithaca NY

Length of Work:

3 weeks, with flexible start time. Work must be completed by August 15. If new grants are identified the candidate will be offered the opportunity to continue working.

Application process:

Please submit a resume, cover letter, and 3 writing samples (for different audiences: foundations, donors, constituents). Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

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