Business Development Specialist – Grants Acquisitions
Compassion International
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Brazil
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About the role
- Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children.
- Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry.
- Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct.
- Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
- Contributes to maintaining and improving the grant opportunity tracking system.
- Conducts basic landscape analysis of funding trends, competitors, and strategic alignment, providing input to decision-making.
- Investigates and summarizes potential sub-grant partnerships under guidance, including eligibility under donor rules.
- Coordinates the proposal development process and collaborates with cross-functional teams (e.g., Finance, Legal, MERL) to ensure quality inputs.
- Owns proposal writing and review processes to ensure completeness and compliance.
- Coordinates and contributes to partner mapping and external engagement efforts for the National Office, serving as the primary point of contact for assigned components.
- Reviews proposals to ensure alignment with donor requirements and internal standards.
- Supports editing and final packaging of proposal submissions.
- Contributes to preparing proposal components such as logic models, MERL frameworks, or budgets under guidance.
- Collaborates with the Global Philanthropic Engagement team on integrating matched funding or foundation partnerships into proposals.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field
- Advanced level of speaking, writing, and reading English required
- 2+ years of relevant experience working in this or a related field
- Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above
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Hard Skills & Tools
proposal writinggrant trackinglandscape analysispartner mappingbudget preparationlogic modelsMERL frameworks
Soft Skills
advocacycollaborationcommunicationdecision-makingeditingorganizational skills
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree