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Hmmm.. I think grant writing is definitely one of those skills that's a little bit of a hard sell on being transferable, but I think you're already on the right track. Do you have any other writing experience?

Most of grant writing is what the PPs have said - attention to detail, accurate gathering of data, persuasive writing skills, and your ability to convince the funders that you will be able to provide measurable results. It sounds more intimidating than it actually is

I'm not sure if science grants are really the same beast but I'd try and sell yourself with any type of academic writing you've done. Any sort of non-emotive writing I guess, especially that requires some examination and interpretation of others work. Data analysis is big in grants - both interpreting other people's works significance on what you're proposing and accumulating data from your job to analyze and be used to sell the grant. So any data analysis skills you have would be a big selling point I think. So many grants require different formats so I don't think not having any specific grant writing experience is really that negative as long as you have some academic writing and data analysis experience.

@mrsjazz: Sounds perfect.