Portfolio Amplification (60%):

• Identifying new business opportunities within India and outside, developing leads and contacting potential donors, devising business development strategies, and implementing them.
• Undertaking outreach activities, keeping up to date with trends within the sector, making sure targets are met periodically, and generating reports and presenting an analysis of business development progress.
• Read and analyse solicitation, proposal documents, and develop proposals
• Draft accurate, responsive, compelling text for proposals, including background/context, executive summary, technical approach overview, activity components, and technical annexes
• Collaborate with other team members to improve and streamline the proposal development process
• Maintain proposal content library locally including updated capability statements, research papers, past performances, management plans, and other related proposal content

Portfolio Management (25%):

• Provide guidance, technical leadership, and support to field projects, including project implementation strategy, work planning, mentoring of team members, and inputs to monitoring and evaluation.
• Coordinate with project implementation teams to ensure the quality and timeliness of deliverables.
• Provide support or leadership as needed to identify and secure partners, consultants, and full-time staff.
• Maintain a collaborative relationship with donor, funder, and/or client counterparts. Support project management activities, including reviewing and submitting project reports to donors, developing budgets and work plans, and backstop operations as needed.

Thought Leadership (15%):

• Participate in appropriate professional organisations and networks and stay current on significant themes in the profession.
• Collaborate with Corporate Communications to identify strategic industry outlets and opportunities for presenting and sharing portfolio work and results.
• Develop thought leadership content such as evidence papers, policy notes, expert blog posts, research publications, and media articles.

• Possess previous experience of leading proposal development for bilateral/multi-lateral organisations, foundations, and philanthropies.
• Able to structure commercial proposals, demonstrated through hands-on experience.
• Have project management expertise, including management of large project teams
• Proven experience of working with governments and international aid agencies.
• Have prior experience in developing and disseminating knowledge products and fostering strategic partnerships with academia, media, research and thinktanks will be preferred.