Readiness Services Consultant
CrowdStrike
Cyber Security
Proposal Development Consultant, Junior/Mid-Level/Senior
Search for Common Ground
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Perform in-depth research and literature review
- Participate in or lead capture, design, and/or partnerships meetings
- Write drafts and final version of a proposal
- Coordinate with the Country Office, Regional Team, and Business Development team to develop and fine-tune the content of the proposal, including some or all attachments and/or required documentation
- Ensure compliance of the proposal to donor standards and requirements
- Lead individual proposal development and writing processes for Search for Common Ground
- Work as part of the Business Development team supporting Search’s regional program development staff around the world
- Be available to be engaged on an “as-needed basis” for short-term proposal development consultancies; specific consultancies may require travel to a country office
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in international relations, development, conflict resolution, nonprofit management, or other relevant field
- Proven experience leading successful proposals for development and/or foreign policy donors in Europe, the UK, and the US, multilateral, foreign government, corporations and/or foundations
- Strong knowledge of donor rules, regulations, and templates
- Able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and meet tight deadlines while coordinating proposal processes
- Excellent written communication skills, ability to write clear, structured, articulate, and persuasive proposals
- Native-speaker level fluency in English
- Highly organized with excellent attention to detail
- Knowledge of peacebuilding and conflict transformation programming
- Computer literacy proficiency, including solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Google applications (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Hangouts) and Internet research skills
- Experience leading successful proposals focused on peacebuilding and/or conflict issues (desirable)
- Experience developing proposal partnerships/consortia (desirable)
- Familiarity with Search for Common Ground programming and systems (desirable)
- Familiarity with international development priorities (desirable)
- Ability to travel to support proposal design (desirable)
- Native-speaker level fluency in French and/or Arabic may be desirable for some donors
- Senior-level: Over 10 years of experience writing winning proposals and leading capture, design, and oversight of a proposal process; track record of winning projects over $5 million
- Mid-level: 5-10 years of experience writing winning proposals; track record of winning projects over $1 million
- Junior-level: 2-5 years of experience writing winning proposals; track record of winning smaller projects of $250,000+
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
proposal writingliterature reviewresearch skillsdonor complianceproject managementpeacebuilding programmingconflict transformationproposal partnershipsmultilateral fundingforeign policy
Soft skills
excellent written communicationorganizational skillsattention to detailability to handle multiple taskspersuasive writingleadershipteam collaborationadaptabilitytime managementcross-cultural communication
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in international relationsBachelor’s degree in developmentBachelor’s degree in conflict resolutionBachelor’s degree in nonprofit management
