Senior Advisor - Business Development

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Catholic Relief Services

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Agricultural Livelihoods • Emergency Response and Recovery • Health • Education • Microfinance

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Description

• CRS’ IDEA department advances strategic position by engaging donors to acquire and steward resources for programs. • The Business Development Specialist III will provide support across all dimensions of the BD cycle, particularly in capture and proposal coordination. • Building and maintaining relationships with various departments for strategic positioning and capturing planning guidance. • Serve as Acting GSSU BD Manager when needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in international development, international relations, or related field. • Minimum seven years of international development experience, with at least five years of those years working full-time in a BD position for an international development organization. • Demonstrated experience leading and producing complex institutional donor proposals in programming contexts similar to those in which CRS operates, including experience leading complex USAID Mission proposals. • Master's degree a plus. • Experience working in a region- or country-based BD position strongly preferred. • Demonstrated experience utilizing diverse, proactive strategies to competitively position his/her organization for new funding and productive institutional relationships. • Knowledge of and experience with both USAID RFP and RFA funding mechanisms highly desirable. • Familiarity with relevant institutional donor regulations, policies, procedures and priorities. • Demonstrated experience managing teams and processes, leading teams to produce deliverables under tight deadlines and at exceptional quality. Experience providing remote support to diverse teams strongly preferred. • Experience in developing content for and facilitating trainings related to key business development practices. Knowledge of adult learning approaches desired. • Extensive familiarity with standard proposal requirements, including structure and content. • Fluency in business development terminology, standards and best practices, including win themes and discriminators. • Comprehensive familiarity with a broad range of institutional donor technical and cost proposal requirements, with a strong preference for those of key US government donor agencies (USAID, USDA, Department of State). • Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings. • Very strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment. • Very strong written and oral communication skills. • Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and ideas in compelling, audience-focused prose. • Excellent negotiation skills. • Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented. • Extensive familiarity with Microsoft 365 suite of tools (MS Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams), and information management systems. • Knowledge of CRS programs, justice agenda and Catholic Social Teaching principles a plus. • Fluency in English required, working ability in Spanish and/or French preferred. • Must be willing and able to travel up to 20%.