Location: Primarily Remote with 10% Travel

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Overview

The Senior Specialist, Private Grant Proposals, will lead and support the development of high-quality grant 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 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 grant
  • Research, analyze, develop, and track relationships with new prospects and existing donors, managing an assigned portfolio of donors.
  • Lead proposal development and technical writing for grant opportunities from organizations, foundations, and corporations, as
  • Produce proposals, pitch materials, and organizational capacity statements, and other documents.
  • 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 others.
  • Collaborate with Business Development team colleagues to test new approaches, adopt best practice strategies, and brainstorm responses to emerging situations.
  • Maintain donor relationship records and track opportunities in Raisers Edge CRM.

Grants Coordination

  • Coordinate quality and timely cross-departmental reporting to ensure successful grant fulfillment in accordance with private sector funder requirements.
  • Support the editing of programmatic reports and technical
  • 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 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 development, with a proven record of accomplishment in securing large grants from institutional funders.
  • 5 years’ experience in the development of grant proposals submitted to organizations, corporations, and/or
  • A passion for business development work and a desire to grow professionally in the field.
  • Strong interpersonal and communications
  • Professional-level writing, editing, and communications skills appropriate for competitive proposal submissions.
  • Ability to juggle multiple demands, manage shifting priorities, and meet deadlines.
  • 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 platforms.
  • Experience submitting online grant proposals via corporation or foundation
  • Bachelor’s degree required.

Other

  • Affinity for CMMB’s mission; comfortable working for a faith-based
  • Knowledge and experience writing public health proposals with demonstrated skill in using terminology and concepts related to global health issues preferred.
  • 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.

How to apply

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