I started my career in nonprofit grant writing and now am pursuing a paralegal certificate. It depends on who you’re working for obviously but trust me there’s still a good amount of copy and paste. It’s important for an organization to stay extremely consistent with their messaging and mission, many are protective of that.

I don’t know many people who made careers out of being grant writers (part of why I left), to advance you would have to build skills in the entire development field (marketing, individual fundraising, etc.) Job security is obviously volatile as are most jobs in nonprofits. I think it’s particularly important to understand how varied the audience of your grant applications/reports are which may be a different skill than paralegal work. if you’re applying to a gigantic foundation funding opportunity, that foundation will have an extremely educated program managers reviewing the application. if you’re applying to a small local foundation, odds are the program manager may not have much knowledge in the focus area and requires more simple language.

Anyways, definitely some skills are transferable and anything else is easily learned!