Business Development Focal Point – Global Opportunities

🔥 16 hours ago

🦀 Maryland, Virginia – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💰 Business Development (BDR)

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Catholic Relief Services

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Logistics

Catholic Relief Services is a global humanitarian organization that eases the suffering of and provides development assistance to people in need in over 100 countries. As the official international relief organization of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, CRS focuses on emergency response, health, agriculture, education, and justice and peacebuilding. Their work is guided by Catholic values and the organization aims to serve the poor and vulnerable, regardless of race, religion, or nationality.

📋 Description

• Develop resource mobilization strategies aligned with CRS’ agency strategy for global opportunities • Cultivate donor relationships and develop donor engagement strategies • Support resource mobilization planning for global opportunities • Collaborate with regional, country, technical, and operations teams on positioning, capture planning, proposal coordination, writing, budgeting, and donor compliance • Research and analyze funding trends and new business opportunities • Leverage data to strengthen CRS’ competitive position • Manage past performance and corporate capacity information • Maintain global business pipeline and performance data in CRS online systems • Represent CRS at industry conferences and working groups • Lead agency BD strategy development and opportunity pipeline management • Serve as proposal coordinator, lead writer, or budget lead for priority bids • Participate in the BD Strategy and Action Room and global pipeline reviews • Guide Go/No-Go decisions through capture and proposal preparation • Guide partner identification, consortia negotiations, and teaming agreement reviews • Lead proposal review panels and consolidate feedback • Lead due diligence reviews and ensure alignment with donor strategies and intelligence • Advance CRS’ BD processes, share best practices, build staff capacity, and contribute to the Global BD Community of Practice

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in International Development, International Relations, or other relevant field • Minimum of 10 years of international development experience • Strong budgeting skills and experience leading strategic and competitive cost proposals highly desirable • Exceptional writing skills and demonstrated experience writing winning proposals • Strong strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills • Strong relationship management abilities • Familiarity with institutional donors, including US Government agencies, FDCO, Global Fund, EU, UN, foundations, and corporations, and their regulations, policies, procedures, and priorities • Comprehensive familiarity with donor technical and cost requirements • Excellent negotiation skills • Excellent communication and presentation skills • Knowledge of CRS programs, justice agenda, and Catholic Social Teaching principles • Experience using MS Windows, MS Office, information management systems, and AI tools • Fluency in English required • Working ability in French and/or Spanish highly desirable • Must be willing and able to travel up to 35% • Ability to legally work where the position is performed • Successful candidates must sign and adhere to CRS’ Code of Conduct

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Life insurance • Vision insurance • Generous retirement savings plan • Collaborative, mission-driven work culture • Equal opportunity employer