Deadline: 29 December, 2020
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Save the Children is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Business Development Coordinator.
The organisation works to ensure children around the world get health care, food and shelter as well as learning and child protection services.
Responsibilities
- Source information on potential funding opportunities
- Work with the business development manager to maintain the proposal and opportunities tracker and ensure it is kept up-to-date and shared with the relevant teams
- Prepare Go No Go decision guides for opportunities to ensure the Go No Go process is completed
- Work with the business development manager to monitor and track the proposal development calendar, activities and timelines for live proposals to ensure the team meets the established deadlines
- Work with the business development manager to hold proposal development workshops and consolidate consortia/bid team inputs to produce high-quality proposal designs
- Work with the business development manager to put together grant bid materials (proposals, presentations and concept notes) and also support management of the proposal development process of the country programme in close coordination with the programmes teams
- Conduct desk reviews to gather and analyse data for proposal development
- Participate in assessments, data gathering and analysis to feed into proposals
- Work with in-country teams to gather local content for proposal submission
- Contribute to writing concept notes or different sections of the proposal narrative in response to donor requests as and when relevant
- Work with the proposal costing specialist and the finance team to develop the CAM calculators and competitive proposal budgets to be submitted with proposals/concept notes, as well as respond to donor requests for clarification on proposal budgets
- Work with the proposal costing specialist and the MEAL team to ensure all proposal documents (narrative, budget, log frame and other required documents for submission) are aligned
- Collaborate with the proposal team to incorporate the suggestions of proposal reviewers
- Format and edit proposals and ensure high-quality final products
- Develop procurement plans in collaboration with the logistics team for approved proposals
- Support the business development manager in the capacity building and training of programme teams and local partners on proposal development
- Work collaboratively and effectively with the technical and field teams in the proposal development process
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field
- Three years, minimum, of experience, including writing, analysis and budgeting, developing proposals in response to solicitations from donors
- Exceptional conceptual, analytical, writing, and editing skills, including knack for synthesising large amounts of information into persuasive, clear language and graphics
- Ability to consistently meet multiple deadlines
To apply and for more information, click here.
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