The Senior Specialist, Resource Mobilization reports to the Senior Director, Humanitarian Response and will work closely with DHR Emergency Operations Specialists, Country Office staff, and Humanitarian Business Team (HBT) technical colleagues.
Proposal Development (70%)
- Serve as lead or supporting writer/reviewer for selected opportunities, providing proposal development leadership and assisting DHR, New Business Development, and Country Offices in positioning and responding to opportunities.
- Working from HO or while deployed to the field, manage selected proposal development processes, including development of proposal calendars, coordination and editing of technical, capability, and management inputs, and engagement and coordination with prime and sub-partners to produce high quality competitive proposals.
- Ensure proposals are consistent with donor guidelines and templates, and reflect donor programmatic interests and SC technical capacity.
- Work closely with DHR and country office technical team members in technical design and proposal development, and serve as convening writer when working with country office technical and proposal development leads.
- Provide input into the proposal budgeting process, ensuring that staffing and activity costs align with and are sufficient to undertake proposed activities.
Information Management (10%)
- Create and maintain a database for DHR corporate capability statements.
- Support the analysis of Save the Children’s proposal development performance, ensuring lessons learned are documented, shared, and incorporated into future proposal efforts.
- As requested support the preparation of quarterly account reviews for DHR’s institutional donors.
- Assist in the preparation of fact sheets and briefing documents for SMT travel and other as requested.
- Gather and analyze donor intelligence and market research to position Save the Children as a partner of choice, and support positioning and capture strategies in partnership with SC country offices and SCUS technical staff.
Project Support (10%)
- Support project start up and award risk monitoring
- Review project reports, and coordinate with COs to finalize for submission
Deployment (10%)
- Deploy in support of Save the Children humanitarian responses as proposal writer and/or USG liaison to support business development and relationship building.
Required
- 5-7 years of experience in international relief and development
- Demonstrated success in proposal development with a preference for Humanitarian Development donors such as USAID/OFDA, BPRM and/or Food for Peace.
- Ability to travel up to 40% of time as required to support proposal development activities, typically to places facing a humanitarian crisis.
- International field level experience is strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience working across the full cycle of grant/award management including proposal development and reporting.
- Excellent written English and computer skills, advanced proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and ability to master SC systems.
- Team player with a good perspective of field programs
- Strong interpersonal, cross-cultural, oral and written communication skills, strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to proactively problem-solve, handle many tasks at once and determine priorities
- Ability to take initiative and work independently and as part of a team
Preferred
- Master’s Degree in field related to development, humanitarian work or business administration.
- Proficiency in French, Spanish, or Arabic
- Experience in proposal budget development
Save the Children provides an attractive benefits package including competitive salaries, a matching retirement plan, health and welfare benefits, life insurance, an employee assistance program, generous time off and much more. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.