Programme Development Advisor
International Rescue Committee
- Kenya
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead and support proposal development for primarily FCDO and USAID opportunities, including capture strategy, management of proposal teams, calendars, and deadlines; strategy development with technical staff; partner identification and negotiations; recruiting; writing; production; and after-action reviews.
- Collaborate with IRC’s pricing team, ensuring technical coherence with the cost proposal.
- Review and/or draft expressions of interest, concept notes, and proposals to ensure quality and compliance with donor standards.
- Occasionally serve in support role for other IRC donors including ECHO, SIDA, World Bank and others. Support may include short term capture, submission, or quality review.
- Conducts After Action Reviews and captures learning to disseminate to wider organization
- Contributes to and models the use of standard business development processes, tools, templates and information.
- Conducts landscape analyses to identify most strategic partnerships in FCDO and USAID markets with a particular focus on fostering local partnerships.
- Strengthen collaboration with internal stakeholders including country teams, technical units, and other team members.
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, including international relations, political science, public administration, and communications.
- At least two years of focused experience working with UK and US Government donors.
- Training or familiarity with Shipley Proposal Development process highly desirable;
- Fluency in English with proficiency in one other language (French, Spanish, German, Arabic) highly desirable.
- Successful track record leading large proposal teams on complex subject, multi-year, multi-partner proposals with minimal supervision.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively manage a variety of relationships in a multicultural environment;
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate equally effectively with colleagues in ‘remote’ and diverse teams, including as team leader for proposals;
- The ability to work productively and accurately while under pressure in a fast-paced, demanding environment;
- Ability to travel internationally (up to 20% of time);
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