Welcome to the Post Pollution Future with LanzaTech

About us: LanzaTech was founded on the belief that we have enough carbon above ground to make everything we need. Through our biorecycling technology, we transform carbon into sustainable raw materials, replacing the need for virgin fossil carbon in consumer goods and transport fuels. We are building the circular carbon economy.

Our impact: To date, we have abated over 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide (the equivalent amount of CO2 needed to charge 30,346,895,586 smartphones) across four commercial plants, and will soon have the capacity to abate 500,000 tons annually with our additional future plants.

With dozens more projects in the pipeline, we are helping global companies like Zara, H&M Move, Coty, and On use recycled carbon to make sustainable consumer products from carbon that would otherwise be emitted from heavy industries such as steel making.

Our team:

• We’re a diverse, woman-led company, with over 400 team members and counting
• We’re distributed around the globe—from Chicago and Europe to India, China, & New Zealand

Named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies of 2023, our team is taking on climate change one ton of carbon at a time.

We are a woman-led company on a mission to recycle the world’s carbon supply, and we want you to join us!

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Grants & Funding Senior Writer
Key duties

• Work across LanzaTech teams to leverage government funding for LanzaTech initiatives
• Work with Business Development and Government Teams to prioritize proposals that LanzaTech should pursue, alone and with partners
• Work effectively with Science and Engineering teams to prioritize technical objectives for government funding
• Identify and track relevant funding opportunities and the value proposition to LanzaTech
• Prepare briefings from complex documents and funding opportunities
• Lead discussions on planning and storyboarding documents
• Reframe, rewrite, and edit documents
• Prepare graphics or concepts for graphics
• Oversee preparation of documents that are visually appealing, technically accurate, and easily readable
• Learn the fundamentals of LanzaTech technology and represent the key technologies to partners and agencies
• Represent LanzaTech at meetings including with funding agencies
• Form and lead teams to prepare proposals, including large multiteam proposals
• Participate as needed in proposals that support other geographic regions
• Identify needs for outside proposal support and follow up to ensure those needs are met
• Review proposals prepared by LanzaTech and partners for readability, quality, accuracy, strength, completeness, visual content, and conformity to requirements
• Lead and participate in responses for Consultations that shape policy and proposal opportunities
• Participate in strategy and planning sessions with the Government Team
• Identify tools and capabilities needed to ensure proper execution of government-funded projects
• Assist in contracting and collaborating with government partners for proposals awarded
• Assist in project execution

Required Qualifications

• PhD with 4 years of experience or MS with 10 years of experience
• Excellent knowledge of US funding mechanisms and US project lifecycle management
• Demonstrated experience in proposal development
• Experience in developing partnerships across academia and industry
• Proven written and oral communication skills
• Self-directed, able to work independently and with a team
• Ability to communicate complex ideas into quickly digestible prose or figures
• Capacity to work in a multi-cultural environment

Preferred/Valued

• Knowledgeable in biotechnology, chemistry, and engineering
• Knowledgeable in business development
• Creative thinking
• Concise messaging
• Storyboarding
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and the use of Styles
• Use of other Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Project)
• Experience in chemicals, steel, and/or other Energy Intensive Industries is strongly preferred

Physical Requirements

• The position will require prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

Work Environment

• The position will be based in Skokie, Illinois.
• The position will require internet connectivity for a hybrid work environment.
• The position will require being in the office three days each week.

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Learn more about us by visiting www.lanzatech.com/news/ and take a look at some recent coverage:

• Selected by the US Department of Energy to receive a $200 million investment
• Featured on abc7 Chicago News with Mark Rivera
• TIME100’s Most Influential Companies
• Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies
• Forbes: Synthetic biology gets the Gucci treatment

Find us on social media: LinkedIn, Twitter & Instagram

This Job Description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee and may be revised at any time by the Company.

This position is open to candidates authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer. LanzaTech is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

We are not able to support work visa sponsorship with this role and preference will be given to local candidates.