Business Development Specialist

Business Intelligence
Jordan 🇯🇴
October 2, 2023

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Job Description

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Proposal Design

  • Responsible for the development, design and writing of high quality proposals for grant and private funding.
  • Support the Grant Risk Assessment and Go No-Go process as per WV policy.
  • Lead/support pre-positioning process with donors/key stakeholders/partners for upcoming opportunities for funding
  • Coordinate with external stakeholders and partners in the development of consortia
  • Lead/Support donor engagement process with new and repeat donors,
  • Coordinate among internal stakeholders to ensure quality project design in alignment with organizational priorities and community needs.
  • Support the grants acquisition team to collaborate with WV Support Offices and manage complex grant designs, facilitate startup workshops with aim to ensure the quality of handover to operations for project start-up and implementation
  • Ensure best practices are applied and high quality systems and processes for grant acquisition are maintained, as well as systems for Acquisition Knowledge Management to meet organizational needs and standards

Capacity Building

  • Facilitate or provide training (donor and grants development specifics) to the grants acquisition team as well as to technical sector experts. Learn of and utilize World Visions Grant Acquisition training tools such as ProposalPro3
  • Provide coaching and training to junior program support staff in regards to proposal writing
  • Collaborate the with the Regional Office GAM team on capacity building strategies and facilitation

Strategic Grant Acquisition Development

  • Participate in the development of WVSR’s grant acquisition business plan, especially updating the annual donor and partnership mapping, and annual grant acquisition target setting
  • Support the GAM Manager in the roll out of the grants acquisition business plan
  • Support Programme Quality Team to develop evidence based technical capacity statements that have specific donor focus and are aligned to the respective Syria Response Cluster strategies
  • Monitor and report on grants acquisition to ensure the Syria Response is meeting its funding targets
  • Collaborate with the Advocacy and External Engagement team
  • Collaborate and negotiate with Support Offices and Global Disaster Management on match needs and other resources
  • Knowledge/qualifications for the role
  • Must have 3-5 years’ experience working in the humanitarian sector
  • Knowledge of proposal and budget requirements and regulations of major donors including the BHA, USAID, BPRM, ECHO, EU, FCDO, UN agencies and other government relief and development institutions
  • Must have experience in successful grant writing (3UN, FCDO, OCHA, ECHO etc)
  • Familiarity with humanitarian codes, minimum standards, principles and practice
  • Experience leading a team of professionals
  • Ability to work with a reasonably level of comfort in high tension and high security risk situations.
  • Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts and psychologically stressful environments
  • Prior experience in World Vision in a fragile context is preferred
  • Required Education,

  • training, license,

    registration, and

    certification

  • Must have a degree or equivalent in relevant fields of study such as International Development, Political Relations, Economics, Sociology, or other related field

Preferred Knowledge

and Qualifications

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team and demonstrate flexibility, motivation, and maturity
  • Good knowledge of quality standards and quality controls related to medical practice
  • Knowledge of IASC MPHSS guidelines, mHGAP, PM+ and other MPHSS approaches specific to low-middle income contexts
  • Familiar with core principles of Children’s Rights, Child Protection, Participation, and ‘Do No Harm.’
  • Excellent planning skills
  • Excellent English communication skills (both oral and written) Additional Arabic would be preferred
  • Experience of delivering trainings
  • Experience working with IDPs and conflict affected persons.
  • Knowledge and experience in PSS/PFA
  • Organized and able to independently manage multiple tasks under strict deadlines
  • Team player and motivator

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local and International Applicants (IA’s) Accepted

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