Business Development Manager

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🔥 12 hours ago

🌐 United States, Kenya, +1 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

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💵 $70k - $85k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💰 Business Development (BDR)

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Village Capital

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2009

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💰 Grant on 2017-08

Consulting • Healthcare • Food & Beverage

Village Capital is a nonprofit organization that focuses on unlocking social and financial capital for early-stage entrepreneurs who are solving major environmental, social, and economic challenges globally. They support startups in sectors like Climate Innovation & Adaptation, Economic Mobility, and Equitable Access to Essential Services, offering investment-readiness accelerator programs and direct or indirect capital investments. The organization aims to democratize entrepreneurship and increase the efficiency, sustainability, impact, and inclusiveness of startups through their network of mentors and global teams. Village Capital is known for its impact investing initiatives and works to ensure inclusive innovation with a significant focus on supporting women-led startups.

📋 Description

• Independently research and identify funding prospects across private philanthropy, family offices, foundations, corporations, bilateral and multilateral organizations, and high-net-worth individuals • Build, maintain, and grow a structured funding pipeline aligned with Village Capital’s priorities • Develop targeted prospect lists and briefs for conferences, campaigns, events, and priority funding windows • Execute sequenced outreach, including cold emails, follow-ups, meeting requests, and preparation • Identify high-fit funders and escalate qualified leads for relationship advancement • Own the full drafting cycle for proposals and concept notes from RFP/Call for Proposals screening through final submission • Manage procurement registrations, submission logistics, and deadline tracking • Draft proposals and concept notes across grant funding and impact investing contexts • Coordinate cross-functional inputs for complex proposals and drive high-quality, on-time submissions • Maintain reusable proposal content and templates • Develop funder-facing one-pagers, decks, briefing materials, and reusable templates • Prepare briefing materials and background research for funder calls • Produce pipeline summaries, funding digests, and draft board reporting • Maintain the CRM as the system of record, including prospect records, interaction logs, pipeline stages, and data hygiene • Log outreach in real time and follow up with colleagues to capture BD interactions • Generate pipeline reports and activity summaries; flag stale records, data gaps, and anomalies • Coordinate proposal inputs, support funding renewals, and keep submissions on track • Provide pipeline visibility and execution-level insight in team meetings and internal discussions

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience in proposal development, grant writing, and lead generation, or business development at the intersection of blended finance, impact investing and private philanthropy • Direct exposure to blended finance, impact investors, family offices, and systems change funders preferred • Experience with bilateral/multilateral funders is not sufficient for this role • Ability to independently draft, edit, and submit high-quality proposals, concept notes, or similar submissions in response to RFPs and Calls for Proposals without significant oversight • Strong research skills, including identifying non-obvious funding prospects • Experience building and managing prospect pipelines, outreach lists, and structured databases • CRM proficiency, with real-time data entry, regular updates, and record accuracy • Experience as a CRM power user or super user preferred • Ability to generate pipeline reports and activity summaries for leadership and draft board reporting • Strong document management, version control, and deadline management across multiple concurrent workstreams • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in international development, communications, business, public policy, or a related field • Ability to work independently with minimal oversight and collaborate across regional program and investment teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Monthly health allowance (Kenya and United Kingdom) • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance (United States) • 401(k) with up to a 3% match (United States) • Fully remote work environment • Flexible PTO • Annual professional development allowance • Wellness allowance • Remote work stipend • Monthly reimbursement for cell phone and internet