INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE

Senior Business Development Advisor

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $110,000 - $114,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Go

About the role

  • Lead proposal development for complex and strategic public opportunities, including capture strategy, management of proposal teams, calendars, and deadlines; strategy development with technical staff; consortium management and negotiations; recruiting; writing; production; and after-action reviews.
  • Collaborate with regional, country, and technical teams to develop and implement opportunity-specific long-term capture and positioning strategies.
  • Lead strategic capture efforts for frameworks, single opportunities and wider funding sources including donor mapping, SWOT analysis, support to win theme development, and relevant strategies for pre-positioning efforts.
  • Contribute to strengthening IRC’s profile and relationships with key stakeholders, including donors, peer organizations, local partners, and government institutions to support opportunity-specific strategic planning and decision-making.
  • Advises Technical Teams and Country Teams on strategic approaches for funding opportunities, guiding a robust and evidence driven Go/No Go process.
  • Supports technical units and country teams to offer pitches to prospective partners to secure the most competitive consortia possible.
  • Review and/or draft expressions of interest, concept notes, and proposals to ensure quality and compliance with donor standards.
  • Collaborate with IRC’s pricing team, ensuring technical coherence and value for money with the cost proposal.
  • Collaborate with Proposal Recruiter to identify and assess candidates for key personnel positions on proposals.
  • Organizes and manages internal processes to ensure IRC is always submitting the most competitive proposals.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, including international relations, political science, public administration, and communications
  • At least six years of business development experience working with World Bank, FCDO and/or USAID
  • Strong knowledge of FCDO, World Bank and/or USAID rules and regulations
  • Training or familiarity with Shipley Proposal Development process.
  • Fluency in English with proficiency in one other language (French and/or Spanish)
  • Successful track record leading large proposal teams on complex subject, multi-year, multi-partner proposals with minimal supervision
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively manage a variety of relationships in a multicultural environment
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate equally effectively with colleagues in ‘remote’ and diverse teams, including as team leader for proposals
  • The ability to work productively and accurately while under pressure in a fast-paced, demanding environment
  • Experience managing FCDO, World Bank or USAID programs remotely or at country-level also beneficial
  • Ability to travel internationally (up to 20% of time)
Benefits
  • 10 sick days
  • 10 US holidays
  • 20-25 paid time off days depending on role and tenure
  • medical insurance starting at $163 per month
  • dental starting at $6.50 per month
  • vision starting at $5 per month
  • FSA for healthcare and commuter costs
  • a 403b retirement savings plans with immediately vested matching
  • disability & life insurance
  • an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support counseling and care in times of crisis and mental health struggles

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
proposal developmentcapture strategySWOT analysisdonor mappingevidence driven Go/No Go processFCDO rules and regulationsWorld Bank rules and regulationsUSAID rules and regulationsShipley Proposal Development processmultiyear proposal management
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillsteam leadershipcollaborationrelationship managementability to work under pressuremulticultural environment adaptabilityorganizational skillsstrategic planningdecision-making