Business Development Manager REMOTE ESF2826

• Medical insurance!
• Vision insurance!
• Dental insurance!
• 401(k)!
• Commuter benefits!
• Disability insurance!

What you will be doing:

• Analyze solicitations to determine proposal requirements;
• Develop compliant and responsive annotated proposal outlines;
• Assemble proposal teams with clearly defined roles and responsibilities;
• Develop compliance matrices and monitor proposal compliance using them;
• Develop proposal development schedules and manage them proactively reminding proposal team members of deadlines and revising schedules as needed;
• Manage the drafting of questions on solicitations and submit them to the client;
• Lead the preparation of data calls to partners; send out data calls and communicate with partners to ensure all adequate data inputs are received in a timely fashion;
• Collaborate with the Technical Lead in organizing and facilitating technical brainstorming sessions to inform technical approaches;
• Draft sections of and annexes to technical proposals such as technical approaches management plans and corporate capability sections;
• Review and comment on all draft inputs received to ensure compliance with solicitation requirements;
• Prepare color review proposal drafts by compiling inputs received from partners and different proposal authors in a coherent formatted document structured according to the proposal outline;
• Disseminate color review drafts to the color teams and facilitate or help facilitate color review meetings/telecons;
• Work with Technical Lead to develop an action plan to revise the proposal after each color review;
• Copy edit and format draft final proposals;
• Conduct quality assurance/quality control of final proposals before submission;
• Manage response final proposal revisions when requested and support contract negotiations until award.

Experience you will need:

• Bachelors degree (Masters degree preferred) in international development business administration public policy water or environmental management or other relevant field;
• At least 5 years of progressive experience in capture and proposal management including for large complex proposal efforts preferably for USAID contract opportunities;
• Experience and/or knowledge of USAID strategies policies rules and regulations;
• Technical expertise in one or more of the following areas: clean energy climate change REDD LEDS food security resilience forestry biodiversity conservation water and sanitation governance MEL;
• Proven ability to successfully manage the full proposal development process;
• Demonstrated ability to produce highquality documents in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook Word PowerPoint);
• Ability and willingness to travel internationally if needed.
• Experience living and/or working in developing countries; and
• Fluency in a relevant foreign language (e.g. French Arabic Spanish).