Position Summary
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for
justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out
for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in
our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World
Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
The Business Development Officer will play a critical role in supporting World Relief’s efforts to secure, maintain and grow a robust portfolio of publicly funded grants. The team member will: (1) lead researching and assessing World Relief’s strategic positioning to pursue new opportunities; (2) manage home office and country office-managed proposal development processes; and (3) model process improvement and capacity strengthening. The ideal candidate will have 5 years’ experience in developing high quality proposals for USAID and other technical donors and have a keen interest in developing new skills related to prepositioning and partnership development.
Eligibility restricted to candidates authorized to
live and work in the following countries where World Relief has a registered
presence: Burundi, Chad, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan.
Role & Responsibilities
- Market Intelligence and prepositioning
- Proposal management
- Process Improvement and capacity strengthening
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals
with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Conducts landscape analyses, trends and intelligence to
identify most strategic partnerships in USAID, EC and other donor markets
with a focus on fostering local partnerships.
- Support technical teams to draft high-quality positioning
materials as necessary, including capability statements, impact briefs and
fact sheets.
- Support and promote donor relations; participate in calls with
select donors, represent the WR at donor meetings as needed; and
communicate relevant priorities to donors and internal WR units.
- Lead the tracking of donor, potential donor, and umbrella
websites for RFAs and proposal submission opportunities aligned to WR’s
priority sectors or countries
- Conduct background research on proposal opportunities to
determine WR’s competitiveness and strategic positioning
- Coordinate proposal development for primarily US Government
opportunities, including capture strategy, management of proposal teams,
calendars, and deadlines; strategy development with technical teams;
partner identification and negotiations; recruiting; writing and
submission
- Drafts sections of concept notes and proposals and/or serve as
a point of quality control for all proposals.
- Collaborate with technical teams and HR to identify and assess
candidates for key personnel positions on proposals.
- Represents WR and works with TAs to deliver pitches in partner
calls related to funding opportunities.
- Liaise with finance teams to ensure standard budget
allocations and relevant approval in proposals
- Accountable for tracking the process from assignment (concept
note, EOI, proposal development) to submission through business
development tools & processes
- Maintain and grow intelligence-gathering network and ensure
effective communication and collaboration between World Relief’s
longstanding Alliance partners, traditional collaborators, and
others.
- Conducts After Action Reviews and captures learning to
disseminate to wider organization
- Develop and model the use of BD tools, templates, shared
workspace and work processes that result in streamlined and efficient
proposal development and teamwork
- Ensure documentation and resources needed for proposal
development are up to date and filed appropriately in the knowledge
management system. Through capacity-training and mentorship, build a
strong internal collaborative system for proposal development.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Demonstrated success in developing high-quality proposals for
the US Government and other international agencies
- Clear understanding of institutional donor priorities related
to global health and humanitarian assistance – especially the priorities
of USAID (BGH, BHA), State Department (BPRM) and UN Agencies.
- Familiarity with building and managing consortia proposals.
- Outstanding English writing skills and strong analytical
capacity assessment, and planning skills.
- Strong capacity for developing budgets for development
projects
- Computer proficiency in MS Office and familiarity with project
management software
- Strong leadership and teamwork skills
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills, ability
to deliver when facing multiple projects with tight deadlines
- Familiarity with the international development community and
donor solicitation processes (US government agencies, European Government
agencies, multilateral agencies)
- Must be a self-starter, strongly motivated and interested in
rapidly producing results
Requirements
- Mature and personal Christian faith
- Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
- Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable
communities
- Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Relief Core
Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian
Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation
document
- University education in relevant fields required (social
sciences, applied sciences, business or similar). Advanced degree,
preferred
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in humanitarian and
development contexts
- 5 years of experience with substantive proposal writing
experience with USAID, EC-ECHO, UN Agencies and/or other institutional
donors.
- Up to 25% of domestic or international travel
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