Advisor, Program Development, Hunger, Livelihoods, and Climate (P3)

Summary

The Advisor for Program Development works across teams to pre-position and pursue key public and private funding, primarily through gathering intelligence on upcoming opportunities, building relationships with Country Offices (COs) and donors, organizing/managing proposal teams, writing and submitting proposals, and managing/fostering relationships with key partners.

You will manage new business development (NBD) and resource mobilization efforts within the Department of Hunger and Livelihoods (DHL). You will lead and support program development opportunities, particularly U.S. government-funded and Green Climate Fund (GCF), and collaborate and coordinate with DHL technical leadership, the Portfolio Growth and Performance (PGP) department, and Partnerships and Philanthropy (P&P) division, and to acquire new funding.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Support Program Development and Resource Mobilization (50%)

• Coordinate public and private hunger and livelihoods opportunities, assist, and closely collaborate with DHL, PGP, and Country Offices (COs) in positioning and responding to proposals.
• Write concept notes or selected portions of larger, complex proposals, as needed.
• Manage selected proposal development processes, i.e. proposal calendars development; the design, leadership, or participation in design workshops; collaboratively draft results frameworks, associated strategies, and activities; and coordinate and edit of technical, capability, and management inputs.
• Liaise with sub partners to provide clear, complete, and timely instructions and feedback for proposal deliverables.
• Provide technical and managerial input into the proposal budgeting process, ensuring staffing and activity costs align with and are sufficient to undertake the proposed. Collaborate closely with DHL and/or PGP Cost Coordinators on this.
• Produce high quality competitive proposals, ensuring timely and responsive inputs that strengthen Save the Children (SC)’s reputation as a development partner while effectively representing technical, managerial, and budgetary priorities. Collaborate closely with prime partners.

Prepositioning and Capture (40%)

• Survey and monitor of hunger and livelihoods programming and opportunities to determine DHL’s place in a competitive landscape.
• Maintain DHL’s pipeline and workload tracker.
• Assist DHL leadership in preparing for pipeline reviews and related meetings.
• Support expansion of DHL programming into climate change adaptation (with donors such as GCF) or market-driven agricultural development (with donors like USDA’s Food for Progress or USAID’s Feed the Future).
• Manage GCF proposals across technical sectors and improve Save the Children United States (SCUS)’s understanding of GCF’s goals and processes.
• Contribute to an effective, efficient, and collegial proposal process for GCF, in coordination with technical and budget leads within SCUS, CO and SC Australia.
• Document lessons learned.
• Participate/develop relationship management and knowledge management activities/products, to build donors’ perception of SC.
• Coordinate and help strengthen relationships with key donor stakeholders.
• Gather and document intelligence, assess the competitive landscape, and recommend winning strategies oriented towards capturing a specific business opportunity.
• Obtain primary source information on existing donor projects, country needs, potential collaborators and/or competitors, and donor priorities, especially when in country.
• Compile information on possible partners.
• Make recommendations on preferred partners and scopes of work.

Strengthen DHL Program Development Capacity and Knowledge Management for Program Development (10%)

• Strengthen DHL program development resources (technical content, global, country and thematic capability statements, and project past performance references) in close collaboration with technical and program management staff.
• Upload program development resources for ongoing reference on SaveNet, SC’s SharePoint Hub site, or DHL’s shared drive.
• Update the Award Management System (AMS), ensuring the accurate representation of DHL opportunities.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience in food security, livelihoods, youth, climate and/or other relevant development sectors,
• Proven ability to write compelling proposals to support resource mobilization efforts, including both technical and management sections.
• Demonstrated track record preparing successful proposals and succinct technical documentation.
• Proven editing and analytical skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Proven success in balancing focus on tasks with attention to building relationships, identifying, monitoring, and strengthening partnerships, and networking with key stakeholders internally, cross functionally and externally
• Demonstrated time management and organizational skills, with ability to independently schedule and prioritize multiple tasks
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20%
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)programming and guidelines,
• Knowledge of other relevant US government programming, such as Feed the Future or USDA/Food for Progress
• Knowledge of Green Climate Fund application process and programming
• Field programming experience, primarily in Africa and Asia
• French and/or Spanish language skills

Compensation 

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,150 – $94,050 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, paid vacation leave, safety & wellness leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, caregiver leave, and much more.

About Save the Children

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