Location: Primarily Remote with up to 30% Travel

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Overview

The Senior Specialist, Institutional Fundraising, will lead and support the development of high-quality proposals for organizations, corporations, foundations, and other donors to support CMMB’s strategy around improving the health of women and children, especially for our signature program, Children and Mothers Partnerships (CHAMPS). The Senior Specialist will also manage an assigned portfolio of corporate and foundation prospects and donors, will work in a highly collaborative cross-team environment, with technical staff and country offices. The Senior Specialist will ensure that proposals are compliant with donor requirements, technically clear, accurate, and in alignment with CMMB’s style, branding, and global strategy.

 

Responsibilities

Proposal Development

  • Monitor the competitive landscape, identifying and evaluating new corporate and foundation partnership
  • Research, analyze, develop, and track relationships with new prospects and existing partners, managing an assigned portfolio.
  • Lead proposal development and technical writing for private grant opportunities from organizations, foundations, and corporations, as
  • Produce proposals, pitch materials, and organizational capacity statements, and other documents for a corporate/foundation audience.
  • Collaborate and participate in the entire grant proposal process, interacting with prospective partners and leading proposal-related meetings with the US technical team, communications team, country-level staff, and
  • Collaborate with Business Development team colleagues to test new approaches, adopt best practice strategies, and brainstorm responses to emerging
  • Maintain donor relationship records and track opportunities in Raisers Edge

 

Grants Coordination

  • Coordinate quality and timely cross-departmental reporting to ensure successful grant fulfillment in accordance with private sector funder requirements.
  • Edit programmatic reports and technical documents.
  • Collaborate with Business Development team members to build the capacity of local country office teams for proposal and report writing.
  • Coordinate fulfillment of donor requirements for private sector grants and contracts in assigned

 

 

Note: These essential functions are not to be construed as a complete statement of all duties performed. Employees will be required to perform other job-related duties as required.

 

 

Qualifications and Requirements

  • Progressively more responsible experience in non-profit business development. Experience with an international organization is strongly preferred.
  • Proficient in prospect research, relationship cultivation and proven record of securing large grants from corporate and foundation
  • Minimum 5 years experience in the development of grant proposals submitted to organizations, corporations, and/or foundations.
  • A passion for business development work and a desire to grow professionally in the
  • Strong interpersonal and communications
  • Professional-level writing, editing, and communications skills appropriate for competitive proposal
  • Professional level portfolio/account/relationship management experience
  • Ability to juggle multiple demands, manage shifting priorities, and meet
  • Familiarity with a variety of private funding sources and associated grant proposal
  • Demonstrated ability to work efficiently in teams under tight
  • Ability to create engaging and compelling text while maintaining technical accuracy and adhering to length limitations.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret quantitative and qualitative
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Office; significant experience in using various software, database tools and
  • Experience submitting online grant proposals via corporation or foundation
  • Bachelor’s degree

 

Other

  • Affinity for CMMB’s mission; comfortable working for a faith-based
  • Knowledge and experience writing public health proposals to corporations and foundations with demonstrated skill in using terminology and concepts related to global health issues
  • Familiarity with the motivation of faith-based funders strongly
  • Able to demonstrate CMMB’s core values in action: collaboration, love, excellence, and
  • Knowledge and experience with Raiser’s Edge CRM
  • Must be authorized to work in the United
  • Must be vaccinated against COVID-19.

 

CMMB is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay for this role starts at $85,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

 

EEO Statement: At CMMB, we embrace diversity and demonstrate compassion towards all people—it is one of our core values. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. CMMB is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. CMMB strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, creed or religion, color, national origin, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, citizenship, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other protected classification under applicable federal, state, or local laws. This statement applies to all terms and conditions of employment. CMMB is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers– If reasonable accommodation is needed, you may contact us at humanresources@cmmb.org.

 

To learn more about us, visit our website at www.cmmb.org.

 

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