Business & Program Development Officer at African Development Solution - ADESO

The Business and Program Development Officer will provide leadership to the Organization’s positioning for and pursuit of institutional and private sector donor resources, with an emphasis on various competitive funding mechanisms.

S/he will provide business development expertise to cross-discipline and cross functional teams in the development of proposals to ensure the highest quality standards and competitiveness.

S/he will contribute to and support internal learning processes that improve business development practices to ensure funding opportunities align with the Organization’s mission and objectives, enhance the Organization’s value propositions, and leverage innovative, evidence-based results into new revenue and programming.

S/he will research and track upcoming opportunities through the capture planning stages and into final proposal production and negotiation.

S/he will strengthen the capacity of country program staff and the technical units as appropriate, in capture planning and proposal development and the introduction of new tools and best practices in coordination with organization-wide efforts from the Business Development community of practice.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Development, International Relations, or relevant field preferred; equivalent experience acceptable.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of international development experience, including at least 3 years working with an NGO in a developing country.
• Demonstrated experience leading and producing competitive proposals in programming contexts similar to Adeso preferred. Comprehensive familiarity with technical and cost application requirements of main institutional donors preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing people and processes; leading teams to produce deliverables under tight deadlines and at exceptional quality.
• Familiarity with relevant regulations and with the institutional agency-specific policies, procedures and priorities.
• Experience with staff and local partner capacity development and mentoring.
• Experience with implementation and management of awards.