BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

CARE is an international NGO with staff and partners in 100 countries. We work in partnership to co-create, catalyze and scale up local solutions to poverty and inequality, and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from disaster response to food and nutrition to education and work for women and girls to healthy mothers and children. CARE’s Vision 2030 puts gender equality at the heart of all our work. We seek to have women leading the change to impact and their voices heard; together with our partners we put women and girls at the center of everything we do because when they have equal access to resources, they lift their families and communities out of poverty. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We've been doing this for 75 years, since World War II. It started with the world's first CARE package of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice;
poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.
CARE is seeking a Business Development Manager (BDM) who will be a part of a growing Institutional Funding and Strategy team. Reporting to the Senior Business Development Manager - Health, Education and Gender Justice, the BDM plays a key role in the oversight, management, and quality control of the entire proposal development process, ensuring a compliant and donor-responsive proposal that meets both funder and CARE requirements and internal standards. Particularly the BDM coordinates the development of proposals, primarily to the US Government including both prime and sub bids in health, education and gender justice. This role includes: coordinating IFS support to CARE CO's responding to USG bids; liaising with partners; helping conceptualize the CARE role in potential projects; reviewing draft proposals for quality and compliance; leading proposal development efforts, as assigned, and on occasion being deployed to the field to manage the proposal process and facilitate design workshops. In addition, the BDM works closely with the other members of IFS with CO and HQ staff to ensure responsiveness to the requirements of the RFP/A, and consistency with CARE's best practices and CO needs and interests.

Responsibilities:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in development studies, or field that emphasizes critical thinking and inquiry.
• At least four years experience in proposal development, and at least two years overseas experience in program management or
  design.
• Excellent writing skills with special emphasis on clear, persuasive language; strong editing skills; knowledge of US government
  proposal requirements; and ability to work under tight deadlines.