Near East Foundation

Account Manager

• Provide strategic oversight of proposal development processes, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and high-quality standards; support the initiation, structuring, and coordination of priority proposals, including managing large and strategic bids from capture to submission.
• Take responsibility for the overall quality of submissions, including contributing to final narrative sign-off; conduct high-level editorial review to ensure clarity, persuasiveness, and consistency across narratives, logframes, budgets, and annexes.
• Ensure rigorous quality assurance by supporting compliance with donor requirements, strengthening strategic positioning and articulation of impact, ensuring coherence across technical, results, and financial components, and aligning submissions with organisational priorities and value-for-money principles.
• Provide guidance and constructive challenge to technical and program teams; coordinate internal review and validation processes to ensure high-quality, timely inputs from stakeholders.
• Contribute to the improvement of proposal tools, templates, and processes, embedding lessons learned and best practices, while supporting capacity strengthening through coaching, mentoring, and training.
• Participate in proposal review committees and support go/no-go decision-making; coordinate due diligence processes and provide guidance on donor requirements throughout the proposal lifecycle.
• Support oversight of the business development pipeline, contributing to the prioritisation of high-value opportunities aligned with organisational strategy; help maintain and refine pipeline management systems to support decision-making.

Senior Bid and Partnership Manager