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Responsibilities of Project Team in Working with GFDO on Grant Proposal Development
Once district management has approved your request for proposal development assistance, the GFDO will work with you and your project team to develop a competitive grant proposal.
Before proposal development begins, it is important that both the Project Team Leader and Project Team Members understand their duties and performance expectations.
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Project Team Leader
Qualifications:
- MMSD administrator or other staff leader with strong organizational/ facilitation skills
- A respected content expert in the program area(s) addressed by the grant
General Duties:
- Serve as content area leader during formulation of the project design and grant proposal
- Establish and maintain a "big picture" vision for the project
- Broker agreements on substantive aspects of project design
- Recruit members of project team, including external partners
- Assist in presenting project idea to funder's program officer for preliminary feedback
- Serve as single point of contact for GFDO staff and consultants and project team members for key proposal development tasks/activities
- Secure initial project idea signoff and final signoffs from appropriate MMSD administrators and project partner executives
- Conduct secondary source research and data gathering needed to support various aspects of the project design
Performance Expectations:
- Commit whatever time it takes to generate the raw material, and resolve the substantive issues, needed for creation of a high-quality proposal
- Be fully accessible to GFDO staff and consultants (e.g. prompt return of e-mail and phone messages, ready availability for face-to-face meetings)
- Be responsive to key competitiveness factors identified by the funder
- Be responsive to friendly critiques on project design and proposal drafts from GFDO staff and consultants
- Serve as Project Team Leader in the implementation phase, once funding has been secured
- Provide all proposal draft materials in electronic format (MS Word and Excel)
- Be willing to serve in this capacity again next year, working toward resubmission, if the proposal is rejected by the funder
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Project Team Members
Qualifications:
- Expertise and web of professional/personal contacts relevant to the program area(s) addressed by the grant
- Unique/distinctive perspective that adds value to project design and proposal formulation
General Duties:
- Advise on important aspects of project design and proposal formulation
- Conduct secondary source research and data gathering needed to support various aspects of the project design
- Draft portions of the grant proposal
- Assist in securing participation commitments from outside partners
Performance Expectations:
- Participate constructively in discussions regarding project design and proposal development
- Complete writing and other assignments on time
- Be responsive to key competitiveness factors identified by the funder
- Be responsive to friendly critiques from GFDO staff and consultants
- Serve on the team that coordinates project implementation, once funding has been secured
- Provide all proposal draft materials in electronic format (MS Word and Excel)
- Be willing to serve in this capacity again next year, working toward submission, if the proposal is rejected by the funder
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