Job Description
Devex is the world’s leading independent media platform for international development, humanitarian affairs, and global health. Our Partnerships team works with top organizations — governments, multilaterals, foundations, NGOs, and private-sector leaders — to deliver high-impact campaigns, events, and thought leadership.
We are now hiring a Business Development Associate, Partnerships— a next-generation role combining executive support, sales support and CRM operations.
We are seeking a proactive, detail-oriented, and systems-minded individual to support our VP, Partnerships to ensure business development efforts run with speed, clarity, and precision — leveraging Google Workspace and AI (Gemini), CRM automation, and workflow tools to reduce administrative load, strengthen follow-through, and enable revenue-driving activities.
Your mission: ensure nothing falls through the cracks, eliminate bottlenecks, and help build revenue-generating partnerships with the world’s most impactful organizations.
This role will include:
1. Executive support & coordination, such as:
- Manage scheduling, calendars, and time-blocking for the VP of Partnerships.
- Draft follow-up emails, reminders, and internal updates using tools such as Otter, Slack, Gemini, and Gmail.
- Prepare follow-up materials by summarizing call transcripts, emails, documents, and prior notes.
- Maintain a live priority system for actions, deadlines, and opportunities, ensuring rapid responsiveness.
- Manage travel planning and meeting coordination for business trips.
2. Pipeline and proposal development, such as:
- Support the VP on pipeline organization and high-value opportunity management.
- Generate first drafts of presentations, proposals, and talking points, leveraging AI tools for speed and synthesis.
- Create reports, summaries, and dashboards using Salesforce and AI-assisted data extraction for business reviews.
- Prepare revenue snapshots and performance reports to track BD progress.
3.CRM, sales operations and AI optimization, such as:
- Own Salesforce data accuracy across partnership opportunities, logging interactions, next steps, call notes, and tasks diligently.
- Use Gemini to summarize long documents, reports, and call transcripts quickly.
- Support email outreach campaigns through list-building and follow-up tracking (leveraging tools like Apollo).
- Identify where AI can reduce administrative load on the VP of Partnerships.
- Continuously improve our workflows with AI tools (Google Workspace, Salesforce AI, Otter.io, Canva, Slack etc.).
Thrive in Our World:
Required Skills & Experience
- 2+ years of experience in executive support, operations, CRM coordination, or project management.
- Strong written communication skills and excellent attention to detail and organizational discipline.
- Experience with Google Workspace, Canva and CRM tools (Salesforce preferred).
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Comfort with data organization, pipelines, and reporting.
AI & Automation Skills (Preferred)
- Comfort testing, learning, and optimizing AI-driven processes.
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools (Gemini, ChatGPT, or similar) to enhance productivity.
- Ability to automate administrative steps (drafts, summaries, scheduling).
- Familiarity with CRM automation, AI-based email workflows, or integration tools.
- Ability to create repeatable templates with AI.
Key Competencies
- Highly structured, reliable, and self-driven.
- Excellent communicator with strong writing skills.
- Fast learner, comfortable in an AI-forward work environment.
- Able to anticipate needs and solve problems before they escalate.
- Quietly powerful operator — organized, responsive, and thorough.
How This Role Creates Impact
This role ensures:
- No missed follow-ups.
- Clean CRM and pipeline management.
- Faster turnaround on proposals and briefs.
- A de-bottlenecked schedule for the VP.
- Strong cross-team alignment, leading to significantly more time for strategic BD work.
How to Apply
Please submit your CV and a short cover letter explaining:
Why this role fits your skills.
How you’ve used AI tools to enhance your work.
Any experience with CRM, workflows, automation, or systems building.
About the Organization
At Devex, our vision is to do more good for more people in the global
development community. We’re a media platform that connects 1+ million
development professionals with news, jobs, content series, events, and
funding.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our
company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color,
national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status,
veteran status, or disability.
Ready to get started? Apply now!
This role is a remote position and the salary range will be based on
the candidate’s location and market rates to align with Devex’s global
compensation philosophy. If selected for an interview, we can share the
compensation range specific to your geographic area.
