Business Development Officer at African Population and Health Research Center

The Center seeks to recruit a Business Development Officer who will play a key role in cultivating funders and proposal writing.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Support implementation of the Center’s fundraising strategy;
• Research, identify and clarify funding opportunities and needs;
• Conduct both internal and external meetings with technical teams, prospective partners and potential funders ensuring information gathered reaches the relevant teams;
• Lead timely proposal development by establishing priorities and target dates for proposal teams, taking a substantive role in writing, review and finalization;
• Maintain quality results by using requisite templates following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency and tone appropriate for the different funders;
• Maintaining proposal support databases;
• Diligently handle revisions and feedback from relevant technical and financial leads;
• Coordinate proposal submissions and tracking through the Enterprise Resource Planning platform; and
• Provide critical information for effective grants management to ensure donor (and partners) retention.

Qualifications, experience and skills:

• A Bachelor’s degree and a postgraduate training in a relevant field from a recognized university;
• Proven experience in proposal writing;
• Experience cultivating key bilateral and multilateral funders, Corporations, US Foundations and Government agencies in at least one of the Center’s focus areas;
• At least 3 years’ experience in business development;
• Knowledge of, and experience in using various business development information systems;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to effectively work with diverse teams; and
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.