📣 NOW HIRING: NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT & OUTREACH VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

Organization: Joyelle Strong Foundation
Position: Nonprofit Development & Outreach Virtual Assistant
Location: Remote
Schedule: Monday-Friday
Hours: 20 hours per week / approximately 4 hours per day
Starting Pay: $6.00 per hour

The Joyelle Strong Foundation is seeking a motivated, dependable, organized, and resourceful Virtual Assistant to help us grow our nonprofit organization and expand our presence within the community.

Our Foundation focuses on supporting individuals and families impacted by sickle cell disease through awareness, education, advocacy, community resources, partnerships, and support initiatives.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys research, outreach, relationship building, organization, and helping develop a growing nonprofit.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The VA will assist with:

✅ Researching grants that match our nonprofit's mission

✅ Maintaining an organized grant calendar with deadlines, requirements, award amounts, and application status

✅ Gathering information and documents needed for grant applications

✅ Assisting with basic grant drafts for Executive Director review

✅ Researching hospitals, hematology programs, healthcare organizations, schools, churches, businesses, community organizations, and other potential partners

✅ Conducting professional outreach by email and phone

✅ Following up with potential community partners

✅ Identifying health fairs, community events, vendor opportunities, awareness events, conferences, and speaking opportunities

✅ Researching fundraising opportunities

✅ Researching corporate sponsors and potential donors

✅ Helping develop sponsor and partnership lists

✅ Scheduling partnership meetings for the Executive Director

✅ Maintaining outreach contacts and follow-ups in GoHighLevel or other tracking systems

✅ Assisting with Foundation awareness campaigns and community initiatives

✅ Researching appropriate social media and Facebook /Meta advertising opportunities

✅ Helping organize upcoming Foundation programs and events

✅ Providing a detailed weekly report of completed work, pending items, and next steps

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The ideal candidate should be:

Highly organized
Dependable
Comfortable working independently
Strong at internet research
Detail-oriented
Good with written communication
Comfortable sending professional email s
Comfortable making outreach calls
Consistent with follow-up
Able to meet deadlines
Able to take initiative
Comfortable using Google Workspace
Willing to learn GoHighLevel and other systems as needed

Previous experience in any of the following is preferred:

Nonprofit organizations
Grant research
Grant writing support
Community outreach
Healthcare outreach
Fundraising
Sponsorship development
Event research
Partnership development
CRM management

Experience with sickle cell organizations, healthcare, chronic illness programs, or community-health organizations is a plus but is not required.

IMPORTANT

This position requires someone who can research and bring opportunities forward, not someone who waits for instructions for every individual task.

For example, we want someone who can say:

"I found this grant opportunity. The Foundation appears to qualify. The deadline is November 15. These are the documents required, and this is what we need to do next."