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SalaryCRS will only consider candidates who are based in countries where we have existing offices. CRS does not sponsor visas for telecommuting employees.
About CRS
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.
Job Summary:
As a Business Development (BD) Specialist I, you will contribute to the production of high-quality applications for funding in support of CRS’ engagement with institutional donors and initiatives involved in international development to serve the poor and vulnerable. Your knowledge and skills will allow you to contribute to improving aspects of the BD cycle for the country program.
Roles and Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to proposal development processes to ensure timely submission of high-quality proposals that are responsive to donor requirements, applicable regulations, and CRS’ technical and cost standards.
- Contribute to non-technical writing on proposals and proposal review panels. Integrate inputs from staff and partners into a responsive, coherent proposal.
- Research new opportunities and CRS’ competitive position within the marketplace.
- Help develop and maintain tools, guidelines, templates and donor intelligence information.
- Track and report on proposal submissions; assist with analysis of successes and failures and dissemination of lessons learned. Assist in developing analytical reports for internal and external use, including portfolio trends and growth.
- With the Business Development team and others, refine or create appropriate staff development materials (training, distance learning, self-study) to support building of capacity i n resource acquisition, such as assessment and proposal development skills, basic elements of donor compliance, intelligence-gathering, etc.
- Work with appropriate staff to maintain data on past performance and corporate capacity, in order to provide timely information for proposal submissions.
Travel - Must be willing and able to travel up to 35 %.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Good strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with capacity to see the big picture.
- Good relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally.
- Good negotiation skills.
- Very good communications and presentation skills.
- Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Key Working Relationships:
Internal: EMECA BD Manager; EMECA Deputy Regional Director for Program Quality; EMECA Regional Technical Advisors; the Business Development Community; EMECA country program staff; management quality and finance staff.
