Technical Funding Writer (part-time, remote within Canada)
Radical I/O Technology Inc., Canada
Job Description
Hiya! We’re Radical I/O, a people-first enterprise software development consultancy and lab that develops technology with purpose. We work with cities and purpose-driven organizations to develop meaningful, data-driven solutions that provide people with easy access to information, when and where they need it. We also currently support our sister early-stage startup company SimpliCity, a SaaS website and integration platform for Canadian municipalities to achieve public information and service delivery excellence. SimpliCity's platform is already well in development beyond MVP, with a first public release targeted for later this Fall which includes onboarding our first customer and migrating their data.
THE POSITION
We're on the lookout for a skilled Intermediate or Senior Technical amp; Funding Writer with experience researching and writing a variety of materials, primarily for the purpose of achieving public and private tax credits and grants, including SRamp;ED, and to win new government project proposals and other funding, in order to help our SimpliCity platform and company grow to make a positive impact across Canada and beyond. There are additional opportunities to write whitepapers and product support documentation as our platform matures. Additionally, if you are also optionally skilled in marketing and sales writing, then there will be even more opportunities for extra work in those areas too (or in future we will hire another writer skilled specifically in that area).
You will work closely with SimpliCity's/Radical's founders, and you will be responsible for the entire end-to-end process of understanding funders' and government proposal requirements, setting up documents and templates for responding in their preferred structure, researching requirements and best practices for responding, reviewing past documentation and interviewing business and technical team members and founders to gather information, writing drafts, editing and re-writing drafts based on feedback, and preparing clean-line versions for final submission by founders. You will work with founders to prioritize which items to write and complete first for submission timelines. You will keep a log of work in progress and submission deadlines through the use of Notion. Various items will be created using Google Docs; however, some documentation may also be written in Notion depending on the nature of it. Ideally and a bonus would be to help out the founders, in between writing and updates, to take time each week to source new relevant funding opportunities to assist with prioritization activities.
Ideally, you have experience writing for technology companies (startups through to mature), particularly in the B2B space. Past experience researching, interviewing, and writing (and achieving funding) for the SRamp;ED tax credit is highly valued. We consider it a desirable bonus if you've worked with the government, or other public sector/education/non-profit organizations before too. If you have other writing skills - for instance, in web sales and marketing, social media, etc - then feel free to highlight that as an extra bonus too.
We particularly love working with people who are purpose/value-driven, and who are accepting, open-minded, collaborative, communicative, and down-to-earth. SimpliCity is woman-led by Founder amp; CEO Briana Sim; therefore, inclusive and flexible hiring processes and working conditions are important to us. We hope they are important to you too!
TIMELINE, HOURS, and BUDGET
We are hiring a writer for an initial 5.5 month term to start in mid-November and ending at the end of April (for now!). This position may be extended and/or turned into a full-time role depending on how our company grows and in your interest in continuing to work with us.
We initially anticipate needing you working regularly part-time (average of 15-20 hours/week), and you are welcome to work 3 or 4 days per week. If you are not working from within BC, then we would need the bulk of your working hours to overlap within our 9am-6pm PST team hours (you can choose your schedule based on which hours within those times work best for you, with some hours outside core hours also doable when needed).
You will be working remotely from within Canada (sorry, candidates physically located outside of Canada will not be considered). Therefore, you will need to provide your own comfortable workspace and writing tools.
We will be shortlisting candidates between now and Oct 11, with most interviews taking place Oct 13 to 27.
Our budget is within the $38/hour to $52/hour range, depending on if you would like to be paid as an employee or a self-employed or incorporated contractor, as well as the strength of the experience you bring to the table. Please share your requirements within that range in our application questionnaire.
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