Job Description
YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE TO ENDING WORLD HUNGER BY …
supporting the development of strategic bids for the US Government, assisting with an effective, successful bid process that leverages the US office as well as other Action Against Hunger offices around the world. The Jr. Officer will effectively work with all parts of the organization including human resources, finance, compliance, and communications to ensure all support services are engaged in the proposal development process. All members of the business development team are responsible for working closely with all internal programmatic departments to track, research, resource, and submit high-quality bids on Action Against Hunger’s most important USG projects. The Jr. Officer will also play a key role in supporting the organization’s knowledge management of business development and institutional donor information, such as monitoring the organizational forecasts, pipeline, and related donor trends.
KEY ACTIVITIES IN YOUR ROLE WILL INCLUDE
- Informing bid recommendations on all USG opportunities.
- Supporting with prepositioning, proposal development, proposal pricing, production and submission of major bids and proposals, ensuring that proposals meet funder specifications and deadlines and quality standards.
- Identifing proposal teams, outlining roles and responsibilities for each team member as appropriate.
- Communicating, and enforcing quality standards for proposals; facilitate development, dissemination, and training of toolkit elements including capture strategy tools and checklists.
- Monitoring potential new business opportunities, marshaling decisions on which opportunities to pursue, in close coordination with other Departments; identify donor trends and new avenues for funding Action Against Hunger network activities.
- Tracking and reporting business development elements pertinent to strategic must win USG opportunities
- Working with the Awards Management team to manage the relationship with US Donors in Washington DC, in particular USAID and BPRM.
DO YOU MEET THE PROFILE REQUIRED CRITERIA?
- You will have a Bachelors or master’s degree
- You will have a minimum of 1 year of relevant business development institutional experience (or equivalent).
- You will have a successful track record in proposal writing.
- You will have demonstrated skills organizing teams to produce a product on a tight deadline.
- You will have technical knowledge of nutrition, health systems, food security and/or WASH programming is a plus.
- You will have the ability to sustain interpersonal and professional relationships with internal colleagues and contacts in donor and peer organizations.
- You will have excellent planning and resource management skills.
- You will have excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively present complex ideas to diverse audiences.
- You will have the ability to multitask with ease and grace, balancing and adapting to frequently changing priorities.
- You will have advanced negotiating and conflict resolution skills.
- You will have high proficiency in developing and managing a budget.
- You will have the ability to willingness to travel overseas, up to 20% of the time
- Fluency in English, French, and/ or Spanish is desired.
- Must be able to work in US
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees & qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender-identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. ACF-USA complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
About the Organization
Action Against Hunger-USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network, which provides humanitarian relief in more than 45 countries worldwide in the sectors of nutrition, health, water/sanitation, and food security.
Action Against Hunger-USA, an independent NGO, currently manages operations in 7 countries: Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda with over $60 million in program funding, and approximately 1,500 permanent staff based in New York City, Washington D.C, Nairobi, and country offices. Additional growth is anticipated.
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