Overview
The Proposal Coordinator will support the Head of Business Development and country programme staff to strengthen the organisation's funding base and partnerships. The role holder will coordinate the proposal development process to ensure final products are responsive, competitive, and delivered on time.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate the proposal development process for funding opportunities.
- Hold proposal development kick off meetings.
- Produce proposal development timelines.
- Follow up with various functions to ensure the process stays on track.
- Ensure proposals are responsive to calls for proposals.
- Coordinate narrative writing with technical leads and other functions.
- Coordinate the logframe development process with technical leads and MEAL.
- Draft key sections of proposals such as capability statements, country context, and programme experience.
- Ensure Child Safeguarding, PSEAH, and broader safeguarding considerations are integrated into proposal design.
- Support technical teams to identify safeguarding risks and mitigation measures.
- Update and implement Country Funding Strategies and Donor Engagement Plans.
- Support the strengthening of country office capabilities on long-term capture planning.
- Produce communication materials for public and private donors.
- Participate in donor meetings upon request.
- Support updating of the SCI’s Award Management Platform (AMS) with required documentation.
- Ensure timely management of AMS workflows prior to proposal submission.
- Work closely with Awards to ensure administrative processes are on track.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in proposal development, grants management, project design, or fundraising.
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating and facilitating the development of major proposals to institutional donors, multilateral agencies, corporate donors, and/or foundations.
- Proven ability to write persuasive, competitive, and compliant narrative proposals for institutional donors.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex issues through critical thinking, analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.
- A high degree of attention to detail and the ability to lead key tasks to on-time completion under significant pressure.
- Highly developed networking skills and ability to form productive working relationships with a wide range of internal colleagues and stakeholders.
- Good personal organisational skills, including time management, and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
- Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills including communicating with impact, influencing, negotiation, and coaching.
- A high degree of flexibility and adaptability in order to respond to changing needs.
- Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours in the event of major emergencies including travelling at short notice and for extended periods of time.
- NGO or nonprofit experience and an excellent grasp of operational issues.
- Familiarity with local context and funding landscape.
- A detailed understanding on funding mechanisms for development work.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Business Administration, Political Science, Economics, Communications, Social Sciences, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
