The *job* that just astonishes me is “grant facilitator”. There are “administrative grants” within nearly all of the grants I have seen that pay around $20k to the person who writes them, on top of whatever is requested for a specific purpose. I have seen these facilitators receive their money even when the grant itself is denied. The person applying is often told they must agree to this set-up or they will not ever again be able to even apply, since the facilitator controls the application. Usually, these facilitators have some inside track with the grant reviewers. They also know how to put the correct wording into the tiny boxes provided.
For the record, my experience comes from being asked to write the “community benefit” analysis for specific projects. No compensation accrues to that process.
It is a huge boondoggle.
Hey RL. I’ve heard of that kind of consultancy. Good gig if you can get it. Most of the grant writers I have known were non-profit folks working for modest salaries. I have written one grant proposal myself for a program I was delivering - I worked for free, both as writer and as executor of the grant; Most of the money was to fund substitutes for the school teachers that would be in my training program. (I was teaching teachers to use certain content for square dance education. Got a ~$2000 grant to give them several Friday afternoons off for the seminar sessions.)