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Location: New York, NY

Travel: Up to 15%

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Overview

You will lead the development of high quality grant proposals for government agencies, multilateral and bilateral institutions, and major foundations to support CMMB’s new strategy around improving the lives of women and children, reporting to the Senior Vice President of Programs & Volunteers. This position will work in a highly collaborative cross-team environment across departments, technical staff, and country offices. You will support evaluations of major grants to ensure cross-organizational learning, improved knowledge management and the institutionalization of best practices. You will have direct reports and will ensure grant proposals are fully compliant, efficiently supported, technically clear and accurate, and adhere to CMMB’s style and global strategy. You will need to be able to effectively build and manage relationships with partner and donor agencies, and other internal and external stakeholders, including integration with our CHAMPS model and in support of the building of public-private partnerships. This role is expected to lead strategically and be willing to significantly engage in operational activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and lead high-quality proposal development and technical writing for award opportunities from government agencies, multilateral and bilateral institutions, and major foundations.
• Manage the grant proposal team and consultants to submit successful bids.
• Team effectively with internal and external stakeholders to best position for success in achieving strategy.
• Research, analyze, develop, and track relationships with new and current prospects for proposals and produce reports, capability statements, agreements, etc. for their development and management.
• Lead, collaborate, and participate in the entire grant proposal process, including conceptualization, performing research, producing compelling content, making revisions, submission and follow-ups.
• Monitor the competitive landscape, testing new approaches and adopting best practice strategies.
• Lead and participate in proposal-related meetings, both in the US and at the country level as necessary.
• Lead CMMB’s business intelligence gathering and networking to pro-actively form or join consortia and partnerships which match our mission and strategy.
• Lead and manage employees in your area, ensuring clear goals and accountabilities are established and achieved. Ensure individuals’ performance and development needs are met and employees are high performing and engaged. Produce systematic performance indicator reporting to inform management as to progress, roadblocks, and other relevant performance details.

Qualifications & Requirements

You have 8+ years of work experience in international NGOs, including business development roles that demonstrate ability to perform these responsibilities, including experience with funders like USG, GFTAM, UN system, DfiD, GAC, EU, etc. You have a Master’s degree in a development-related subject (public health or health discipline required). You have developed successful proposals in MCH and/or WASH/nutrition, and have experience working in Africa and/or in Latin America/Caribbean on development programs.

Your business development experience has included pre-solicitation research and partnership formation; design, development and submission of complete and competitive proposal packages; and submission follow-up to ensure lessons learnt are carried forward to future submissions.

You have direct experience remotely supporting proposal development teams, and have a demonstrated ability to undertake the analyses needed to highlight where CMMB has a comparative advantage in business opportunities and lead our subsequent response in a systematic way while thinking creatively in consortium formation and proposal design.

You have a knack for building and maintaining productive working relationships with a wide network of partners and stakeholders, and have experience working in a headquarters-based setting and collaborating closely with country offices.

You’re a timely and effective communicator with superior presentation skills and proven skills building human resources and building the capacity of field-based staff.

French and/or Spanish language skills are desirable, and you are comfortable working for a faith-based organization.

You believe in CMMB, where we’re going, and what we can do together to achieve Healthier Lives Worldwide.

How To Apply

Email a cover letter and your CV/resume to hrresumes@cmmb.org.

Location: New York, NY

Some international travel

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Overview

You will bring our work to life by developing dynamic and compelling human stories through strong copywriting that moves people to engage more deeply in our mission. You will work the entire storytelling spectrum, from gathering stories in the field to packaging them for a variety of strategic purposes. Steeped in our brand strategy and voice guidelines and familiar with digital/social media, web editing and AP/Chicago style guides, you will experiment with new, fresh approaches and can deliver character-driven, emotionally engaging content, press releases or tweets for different audiences. You can do long-form and short-form content, interviewing, researching, editing and writing, and can take rough, sometimes technical, content and translate it into polished, professional stories and communications collateral. You see writing as a collaborative process and are comfortable taking feedback constructively, have strong judgment and team skills and can make decisions quickly when needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop content for integrated fundraising/marketing campaigns and communications channels
• Write both short-form and long-form pieces for press releases, website, reports, newsletters and social media
• Deepen understanding of our work with various audiences, translating our strategy and programs into powerful copy and stories that drive desired action
• Act as an “in-house reporter” and develop compelling stories about beneficiaries, programs, staff and global health and development issues
• Identify opportunities to gather content to support our content strategy, including planning international and local trips in close collaboration with other teams and country offices
• Travel to Haiti, Kenya, Peru, South Sudan or Zambia to gather stories that bring our brand to life and accomplish marketing and communications goals
• Be a primary writer/editor for our website, keeping it current, relevant and engaging to support our key performance indicators, which includes increasing email subscribers, boosting online engagement and recruiting new donors
• Manage our story and image “asset bank” to ensure that everything is properly tagged, archived and shared
• Support preparation of talking points, key messages and editorial pieces for industry events and conferences
• Manage and maintain the content calendar in close collaboration with the team
• Optimize and edit pictures and videos through Adobe CS or other software
• Live out our mission and keep a good sense of humor

Qualifications

• Professional writing and editing experience, preferably with an international non-profit, 5+ years required.
• Bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, communications, PR or a similar field required.
• Mastery of AP/Chicago style guides required.
• Knowledgeable and passionate about global health and international development.
• Graphic design experience preferred, especially with page layout, style, and imagery.
• Image and photo bank management experience preferred.
• Photo and video editing experience preferred.
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail, especially in proofing copy.
• Expertise writing and producing multimedia content for a range of target audiences; writing samples required.
• Highly proficient with blogs, WordPress, and Photoshop, and other content-production software.
• You understand storytelling and marketing copywriting trends across various media.
• You understand how storytelling can drive business results, and know how to measure that success.
• You’re relentlessly strategic, and translate these skills into flawless operational plans, ensuring we have a competitive edge and take advantage of best practices.
• A collaborative team-player who enjoys working within a group of highly-motivated individuals in a high-performance environment.
• You believe in CMMB, where we’re going, and what we can do together to achieve Healthier Lives Worldwide.

How to apply

Email your resume, cover letter and 2 writing samples to hrresumes@cmmb.org.