Trauma-Aware Funding & Grants Collaborator – TEG-Blue™ (Remote)

TEG-Blue™ — Emotional Technology for Healing and Repair

An AI-aligned visual system that maps emotional patterns across individuals and society.

TEG-Blue is a growing open research ecosystem based in Spain with collaborators across several countries. It offers a visual, trauma-informed framework to understand emotional safety, harm, and repair across people, relationships, organizations, and AI systems.

We are building tools that help:

• differentiate trauma responses from manipulation
• make emotional safety visible in systems
• support healing and accountability instead of blame

We are in an early, pre-funding stage. The core work has been developed over years of lived experience, independent research, and collaboration with researchers and practitioners from different fields.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Funding and Grants Collaborator who is deeply emotionally aware, trauma-informed, and comfortable working with complex ideas.

This is not a typical startup funding role focused only on money and scale.

We need someone who can:

• understand the emotional and scientific depth of TEG-Blue
• translate that into clear, grounded language for grants and funding proposals
• protect the integrity of the project while helping us access resources

At this stage, this role starts as unpaid / volunteer, with the clear intention to explore paid collaboration or co-created opportunities once funding is secured.

What You Will Help With

• Identify relevant funding opportunities
  • research grants, social impact funds, philanthropy, fellowships, and aligned innovation programs
• Co-write grant applications and concept notes
  • articulate the social impact, scientific foundation, and innovation of TEG-Blue
  • adapt the same core project to different calls without losing its essence
• Help us shape a funding narrative that is:
  • emotionally honest
  • trauma-aware
  • scientifically defensible
  • understandable to institutions
• Support light strategy around funding pathways
  • short term survival support for the founder
  • mid-term grants for research and testing
  • long-term structural funding for the ecosystem

Who We Are Looking For

You do not need to tick every box, but you will likely resonate with several of these:

Experience and skills

• Experience in grant writing, funding applications, or research proposals
• Comfortable reading and translating complex ideas into clear language
• Some familiarity with one or more of these fields
  • trauma and mental health
  • social impact and human rights
  • education and emotional learning
  • neurodivergence
  • AI ethics or AI safety
• Strong written communication in English

Emotional and relational alignment

This part matters as much as your CV.

You are someone who:

• is emotionally present, not only “efficient”
• can sit with nuance, uncertainty, and slow-building clarity
• respects lived experience and trauma without turning it into a marketing story
• understands that urgency can harm quality and emotional safety
• prefers honest collaboration over “hard sell” tactics

You do not resonate with:

• hype language
• exaggerated promises to “change everything overnight”
• classic startup pitch culture obsessed only with ROI and scale

What This Role Offers

• A chance to co-shape the funding pathway of a project that sits at the intersection of:
  • emotional healing
  • social systems
  • education
  • AI and emerging technology
• Deep collaborative work with a founder who is:
  • trauma-aware
  • highly visual and systems-oriented
  • committed to shared credit and fair recognition
• Space to bring your integrity, depth, and emotional intelligence into funding work
• The possibility of evolving into a paid, long-term role when funding is secured, with clear conversations about authorship, recognition, and co-ownership structures

Time Commitment

Flexible and negotiable.

We imagine starting with something like 3–5 hours per week, with room to adjust based on your availability and the funding cycles we are pursuing.

Remote collaboration. Most communication is asynchronous, with occasional Zoom calls across time zones.

Location

The founder is currently based in Spain (CET), and existing collaborators are in Europe, North America, and Asia.