What are the responsibilities and job description for the Future Opening: Grant Writer position at Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center?
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Who are we? Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center is a Level I-II Outpatient provider
formed in 2016 to address the need for innovative, evidence-based, holistic substance use
disorder (SUD) treatment on the West Side of Chicago. The mission was and is to make the best,
most comprehensive care available and free to those who demonstrate the most need. We serve
the homeless, displaced, psychologically injured, and formerly incarcerated who are welcomed
with love and lack of judgment. AnB was recently recognized with the 2023 Excellence in
Mental Health Award by the Illinois Association for Behavioral Health and we are also
accredited by the Joint Commission of Behavioral Health. You will be joining a recipient of
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Best Chicago Companies To Work For, because
of our unparalleled support of the wellbeing and professional development of our staff.
Who are you? You are passionate about social impact and making a difference. You thrive in a
deadline driven role and desire genuine mentorship. You can balance thinking creatively and
analytically and can strategize program development against funding restrictions. You like
putting words to numbers, numbers to words.
If you want to launch yourself right into the world of non-profit development with the
opportunity to see grants through from start to finish, including research, program design,
proposal writing, grant compliance and administration, and program evaluation at an innovative
place recognized at the national, state and local levels, come meet us.
Reporting to the Director of Grants and Program Development, your responsibilities include:
formed in 2016 to address the need for innovative, evidence-based, holistic substance use
disorder (SUD) treatment on the West Side of Chicago. The mission was and is to make the best,
most comprehensive care available and free to those who demonstrate the most need. We serve
the homeless, displaced, psychologically injured, and formerly incarcerated who are welcomed
with love and lack of judgment. AnB was recently recognized with the 2023 Excellence in
Mental Health Award by the Illinois Association for Behavioral Health and we are also
accredited by the Joint Commission of Behavioral Health. You will be joining a recipient of
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Best Chicago Companies To Work For, because
of our unparalleled support of the wellbeing and professional development of our staff.
Who are you? You are passionate about social impact and making a difference. You thrive in a
deadline driven role and desire genuine mentorship. You can balance thinking creatively and
analytically and can strategize program development against funding restrictions. You like
putting words to numbers, numbers to words.
If you want to launch yourself right into the world of non-profit development with the
opportunity to see grants through from start to finish, including research, program design,
proposal writing, grant compliance and administration, and program evaluation at an innovative
place recognized at the national, state and local levels, come meet us.
Reporting to the Director of Grants and Program Development, your responsibilities include:
- Leveraging grant opportunities to align with an existing organizational grant pipeline
- Create realistic program budgets in line with foundation and/or government entity values, expectations and priorities
- Analyzing data and research to create compelling need statements
- Collaborating across programs and departments to evaluate fiscal and programmatic needs
- Communicating grant proposals that follow clear and impactful logic models to meet a variety of audiences in the world of philanthropy.
- After some time in the role, you can assist the Director of Grants with tasks related to compliance and evaluation for programs funded at the local, state and federal level.
Training will be provided—we love people who love to learn.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Vision insurance
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Experience:
Grant writing: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: In person
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Vision insurance
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Experience:
Grant writing: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: In person
Compensation: $20.00 per hour
OUR MISSION
The vision of Above and Beyond is to build an individualized treatment experience that is available to anyone in need regardless of their economic status. Our clients and clinicians create therapeutic alliances that design and execute personalized programs of recovery that co-exist side-by-side personal development and growth goals. We believe that recovery is a process that requires meeting individuals where they are at as well as addressing their environmental life circumstances such as: education, employment readiness, interpersonal relationships, and social re-integrative abilities and activities.
Compassion. Competence. Communal Healing.
The vision of Above and Beyond is to build an individualized treatment experience that is available to anyone in need regardless of their economic status. Our clients and clinicians create therapeutic alliances that design and execute personalized programs of recovery that co-exist side-by-side personal development and growth goals. We believe that recovery is a process that requires meeting individuals where they are at as well as addressing their environmental life circumstances such as: education, employment readiness, interpersonal relationships, and social redintegrative abilities and activities.
Our Philosophy - Compassion. Competence. Communal Healing. “We believe you can be well.” With these simple words, the founders of Above and Beyond have brought together a seasoned team of staff members from the healthcare community with decades of personal and professional experience in the ever changing field of substance use. When we say, “we believe you can be well” we’re stating our belief in everyone’s ability to experience healing, hope and health when properly stimulated, educated, and supported. It’s this expectation of communal success that drives us to provide our solid foundation of excellence in prevention/intervention to the most fragile and vulnerable people of Chicagoland.
Above and Beyond, committed to the idea that, “everything begins in the relationship,” is intentional about creating a unique hybrid by incorporating what has worked in the past with what evidence-based modern recovery methodology tells us to do in the present. We’re trying to graft a humanitarian touch into the highest standards of professionalism known in the substance abuse industry.
This is our quest, with an intended outcome of returning our clients to their birthright status of being responsible agents of their own destinies.
The concept that we humans have free will and are capable of choosing more for our lives when we’re lovingly recognized, engaged, and motivated to a higher level of being is not new, yet this simple truth is often lost in the language of professional intervention.
The concept that we humans have free will and are capable of choosing more for our lives when we’re lovingly recognized, engaged, and motivated to a higher level of being is not new, yet this simple truth is often lost in the language of professional intervention.
Embracing a “People First” interface with our many constituencies is reflected in our reference to “clients with substance struggles,” rather than, “addicts or alcoholics”. Our behaviors should not define us and through our relationship via our shared human experience we try to foster a responsibility for each other in which we find an amplified and expanded level of healing, both ways.
We’ve tried to weave this philosophy into the fabric of who we are across our small but growing organization and all its programs. Staff members embrace and support these cornerstone values which have been developed by the original group who designed Above and Beyond and have put it on its feet.
Come and be a part of us on either side. There are countless points of entry and if these words strike any kind of chord with you, you must join us.
Employment
Can you really say that you are satisfied in your current position?
Is your employer attentive to your individual needs?
Are you changing lives the way that you’d like to?
Are you listened to?
Will you be proud to spend your remaining working days where you are and retire with regret?
If your answer is “NO” to any of the above questions then you should consider coming to work for one of the employee-friendliest organizations in the substance abuse industry.
Take a moment to read our mission statement and pay attention to the big role we give our employees. Our product is our people and the work that we do with our clients is our most valuable asset. This could be one of the biggest reasons we have virtually no turnover. How many ads of ours have your seen in the local or electronic media?
We’ve scrapped a lot of industry dysfunction, like stoic programs that march ahead whether they work or not, managerial lack of listening ability, and demotivational interviewing. Different maybe, but to us it seems so normal that we can¹t figure out why it hasn’t always been this way.
If what we say interests you then fill out an application and either mail it in to us, attach it to an email addressed to info@anb.today. If we have no positions open in your area of expertise (as you might expect, we have a plethora of applicants), we will keep your application and resume for future consideration.
One additional assurance we offer any applicant is that your resume and/or application and/or confidential contact information will not be seen by or communicated to ANYONE ELSE until there is mutual consent. We come from the trenches ourselves and understand the delicate nature of a career change. Therefore, anyone who feels “trapped” in a position or “obligated or indebted” to their current patriarch or even “scared” to come out of the woods, please give the idea another think-through. We¹re not hindered by of any of that business because we don’t participate in it. We are problems solvers by profession and we wear the white hats. Please remember that.
However, with all of that said, we are only interested in the “Best of the Best” so please don¹t apply unless you can demonstrate a tangible, unblemished employment history. We check all references (eventually) and educational claims and we expect nothing less than what was presented to us as fact. This characteristic of complete disclosure and total honesty is consistent with our modus operandi and you¹ll be pleased with the fact that you get the same consideration of total transparency from the office as well. It works both ways. If we are able to schedule an interview, or you are in the area and you just want to drop in, you can have the opportunity to meet and judge us for what we are. We’re upfront. We play no games. We do what we say. And we’re here for only one reason . . . our clients!
Now go take another look at our mission statement, compare it to your current life activity and tell us if we should be looking forward to hearing from you!
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