Founded in 2016 in Atlanta, GA, Think and Ink Grant Consulting® provides customized, practical, and real-world solutions to help nonprofit organizations “think” through effective grant-seeking strategies and “ink” competitive proposals. We are proud to be home to really smart, driven, and passionate people whose life mission is to do good in the world. Yes, we think they are cool too. If this sounds like you, check out our employment opportunities below.

Associate Grant Consultant (Full-Time)

Start Date:  Fall 2026

Location:  Remote (Atlanta, GA Preferred)

Job Type: Full-time salaried

Level: Entry-level

Focus: Consulting and Grant Writing (80% Federal Grants/20% Foundation)

Time Commitment: 40 hours per week

Salary: $36,000- $50,000 per year

Reports to: CEO

About Think and Ink Grants

Founded in 2016, Think and Ink Grant Consulting (Think and Ink Grants) helps organizations gain a competitive advantage by implementing our cutting-edge grant-seeking strategies through our grant consulting services and composing funding-worthy proposals using our results-proven approach to grant writing. Our full suite of services also includes grant research, grant management, and evaluation, providing full-service, customized end-to-end support. 

We’ve helped clients leverage over $625 million in funding across various grant areas, specializing in grants that improve the lives of women and children and advance health and education. Our clients include municipalities, large nonprofits (budgets of $3 million +), and colleges and universities nationwide. Think and Ink Grants® is a Certified B Corp and a GPCI Approved Education Provider. Our Get.Grants.Better.® offering provides grant consulting advisory services to emerging nonprofit leaders and grant writing teams.

Our experienced, professional grant writers bring real-world experience as former nonprofit leaders, grant reviewers, and staff at major foundations. Our real-world experience supports our successful track record of helping organizations deepen community impact, and our work transforms how organizations find grants, apply for grants, connect with funders, and solve problems.

We are proud to be home to really smart, driven, and passionate people whose life mission is to do good in the world. Think and Ink Grant Consulting® attracts and supports teammates who are:

• Independent thinkers and self-starters
• Highly driven and self-motivated
• Passionate about changing the world
• Thrive in a highly structured environment
• Responsive and possess strong communication skills
• Pays close attention to detail
• Timely response to emails
• Applies an organized approach to work
• Adopts a positive, optimistic attitude
• Works well with clients and fellow teammates
• Has a great work ethic and a commitment to succeed

Yes, we think they are cool too. If this sounds like you, keep reading…

Primary Function

Think and Ink Grant Consulting®  is seeking an individual with at least two years of grant writing experience to fill the role of a full-time Associate Grant Consultant.  This is an entry-level role for a person interested in learning, advancing their grant-writing knowledge, serving as a grant consultant to our clients, and eventually taking on more challenging projects. 

This position reports to and is managed by the CEO.

Role Description

The Associate Grant Consultant must be skilled at understanding each client’s program goals and translating them into writing.  They must also have excellent verbal communication and listening skills, superior persuasive and technical writing skills, and strong budgeting skills.  Funding opportunities may arise from foundations and government entities through grants, corporate sponsorships, and in-kind donations for program and general operating support. They must also provide grant consulting support, create logic models, write simple evaluation plans, lead meetings, and serve as advisors to our clients. 

Typical Clients Served

Our clients include colleges and universities, 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organizations with operating budgets of $3 million or more, and municipalities. We specialize in organizations supporting women, children, health, and education nationwide.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide support across all Think and Ink Grants® service areas: grant consulting, grant writing, grant research, grant management, and grant evaluation
• Write grant proposals per our quality assurance process
• Compile all required documents and attachments as required by funders
• Lead client meetings as touchpoints to ask questions, give an overview, provide updates on pending applications, guide the grant writing process, and manage client expectations
• Manage projects and provide updates on the entire submission process, including, but not limited to, project deadlines, final delivery, and subtasks.
• Serve as an advisor to provide grant consulting support as the need arises
• Conduct prospect research to find new and update existing funders
• Review, update, and create budgets for the client organization per funder requirements
• Update and maintain a grant application calendar summarizing potential funding opportunities
• Attend weekly team meetings to discuss strategy, next steps, and upcoming meetings

Core Competencies

These are the capabilities the Associate Grant Consultant must already possess on day one. This is not a training role. Candidates should be able to demonstrate each competency with concrete examples from prior work.

1. Persuasive and Technical Grant Writing

• Writes a complete, funder-ready narrative from a blank page without a template to copy or AI assistance
• Translates program design into a need statement, goals, measurable objectives, activities, and outcomes that hold together logically
• Writes to a scoring rubric, allocating length and emphasis to where the points are
• Self-edits to word and character limits without losing the argument
• Produces clean first drafts. Copy editing is a polish step, not a rescue

2. Federal and Foundation Compliance Fluency

• Reads a NOFO or RFP and independently builds an accurate compliance checklist
• Navigates Grants.gov, SAM.gov, and common foundation portals without hand-holding
• Understands allowable and unallowable costs, match and cost-share requirements, and indirect costs
• Working familiarity with 2 CFR Part 200 and the ability to spot a compliance risk before it reaches the client

3. Budget Development and Financial Reasoning

• Builds a multi-year project budget with a narrative that ties every line to a program activity
• Calculates personnel costs, fringe, indirect, and match accurately
• Reads a client's audited financials and 990 well enough to reference them credibly in a proposal
• Catches arithmetic and formula errors before submission

4. Client Advisory and Meeting Leadership

• Leads a client meeting with senior staff and executive directors, sets the agenda, and drives to decisions
• Asks the diagnostic questions to surface what a client actually needs, not only what they asked for
• Effectively gathers information from client to support a successful, on-time submission
• Ability to deliver unwelcome guidance, such as declining to pursue a poor-fit opportunity, with evidence and diplomacy
• Manages scope and expectations without escalating routine matters to leadership

5. Project and Deadline Management

• Manages multiple concurrent client accounts and overlapping submission deadlines without dropped tasks
• Works backward from a deadline to build a realistic internal timeline with buffer for review
• Uses project management software to keep status visible to the team in real time
• Communicates project status to fellow team members and management
• Flags a slipping timeline early rather than reporting it after the fact

6. Prospect Research and Funding Strategy

• Builds a qualified prospect list, not a long list, and can explain the fit rationale for each funder
• Uses funder databases, 990s, and award histories to assess realistic competitiveness
• Builds and maintains a grants calendar that sequences opportunities against client capacity

7. Program Design and Evaluation Logic

• Constructs a logic model and a simple evaluation plan with valid measures
• Distinguishes outputs from outcomes and writes indicators a funder will accept
• Interprets client program data and uses it as evidence rather than decoration

8. Professional Judgment and Communication

• Responds to client and internal communication same day or next day for correspondence received after 3 PM EST
• Works independently in a remote, highly structured environment with minimal supervision
• Receives quality assurance feedback positively and applies it consistently going forward
• Handles confidential client and organizational information with discretion

Success Factors

These indicators tell us the Associate Grant Consultant is performing. Targets are reviewed at the close of the 60-day probationary period and at each subsequent performance review.

I. First 30 Days

• Completes onboarding and demonstrates working command of the firm's quality assurance process, brand standards, and project management system
• Shadows and then co-leads at least two client meetings
• Delivers a first proposal section or full narrative that passes internal QA with only minor revisions
• Maintains same-day or next-day response for correspondence received after 3 PM EST for internal and client communication

II. First 60 Days (Probationary Review)

• Independently owns at least two client accounts end to end
• Submits at least two applications on time with zero compliance errors
• Leads client meetings solo with an agenda circulated in advance and a recap delivered within 24 hours
• Requires no more than routine leadership involvement in day-to-day account management

III. First 90 Days

• Carries a full portfolio of four to six concurrent client accounts
• Produces three to five submission-ready proposals per month at the firm's quality standard
• Maintains a 100 percent on-time submission rate
• Builds or refreshes the grants calendar for every assigned account

Classification

This is a full-time, remote-optional, exempt, salaried role of 40 hours per week with a 60-day probationary period.

Skills and Qualifications

Applicants must be strong in the following skills, abilities, or experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree
• Team player with a proven track record in grant writing and program development
• Deadline-driven with extreme attention to detail
• Minimum of two (2) years of writing and preparing grant applications in the grant focus areas of women, children, health, and education
• Project management, budgeting, and research skills 
• Impeccable written and verbal communication skills 
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and manage project timelines
• Ability to work independently and set priorities
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple job tasks
• Organizational and analytical skills with consistent attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree and/or GPC
• Five (5) years of grant writing and grant consulting experience
• Federal grant writing experience with the following agencies: HRSA, DOL, DOJ, DOE, or SAMHSA
• Federal grant writing experience with the following topic(s): rural health
• Experience supporting nonprofit organizations with annual budgets of $3 million or more, colleges and universities, and municipalities
• Prior experience as a nonprofit leader or work experience supporting women, children, health, and education (i.e., teacher, social worker, health advocate, etc.)

Benefits: Work From Home (WFH) eligible • Medical • Dental • Vision • Retirement • Financial wellness • Personalized Time Off (including voting leave and paid volunteer time) • Paid holidays • Bereavement Leave •  Sick Leave • Jury Duty Leave • Witness Leave • Lactation Accommodations • Temporary Disability Leave • Parental Leave of Absence

A background check and live writing assessment will be required.

To apply, please apply at  https://www.thinkandinkgrants.com/apply.  Only candidates selected to proceed will be contacted.