Business and Proposal Development Lead at Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK)

Duties/Responsibilities:

The Business and Proposal Development Lead will be tasked with the enhancement and maintenance of strategically tailored business intelligence platform for CHAK while cultivating a strong relationship to maintain strong ties with our traditional and non-traditional donors. He will take responsibility for the identification of notices of funding opportunity (NOFO) that are strategically aligned to CHAKs program directions, review and analyze them to ensure donor requirements are understood and due attention.

The incumbent shall serve as the technical proposal writer for the identified NOFO, under the guidance of the Head of Programs, and collaborate with Finance, MEAL, Communication and other lead contributors to produce compelling proposal content with the highest possibility of success.

He will collaborate with Knowledge Management staff and technical teams to produce thematic capability statements and program past performance references and develop materials for engaging with donors and potential consortia members during oral presentations and co-creation activities.

The role will maintain a database of critical documents required for proposal submissions and ensure developed proposal are systematically archived and easily retrieved from CHAKs Center’s Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) for reference. He will be also tasked with administrative support to the business/proposal development team, including consultants where applicable to ensure efficient and effective proposal development processes and activities.

Qualifications,

• Bachelors in Public health, or Clinical disciplines
• Master’s in public health, Health Economics or another related field.

Skills, and Experience

• Minimum eight (8) years in civil society and public health programing work.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience of successful business and prorsal writing development
• Demonstrated knowledge of business information systems including electronic data management systems.
• Demonstrable ability to synthesize large amounts of information into a compelling and compliant narrative.
• Demonstrated record of writing successful proposals for a minimum of five (5) year period.
• Strong time management and organization skills, with ability to independently schedule and prioritize multiple tasks
• Demonstrated proposal development and organizational skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Strategic and innovative (out of the box) thinker with proven ability to communicate a vision.
• Excellent IT, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate complex ideas in simple ordinary language.