CONSULTANCY: Business Development (Senior Advisor Level)

Bethesda, MD

Posted 17 days ago

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Job Description

Position: CONSULTANCY: Business Development (Senior Advisor Level)

Location:

Global

Job Id: 2162

# of Openings: 1

Hours: The contract includes multiple assignments that will be assigned within individual Work Order Agreements (WOAs). Multiple assignments ranging from 1-40 days over 6-12 months.

Consulting Rate: Commensurate with required experience and qualifications

Reports to: Senior Director of Business Development

University Research Co., LLC (URC)

Guided by a strong vision of equitable and resilient systems that respond to people's needs and emerging threats, URC helps countries and local actors to build, implement, and sustain science-driven, scalable solutions. Established in 1965, URC offers a range of technical expertise to empower governments, communities, and service providers toward strengthening their own health and social systems and improve service quality. We aim to expand access to and improve the quality of services, addressing maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; global health security and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; nutrition and water, sanitation, and hygiene. In our interactions with each other and our clients, we stay true to our values for transformative change by focusing on:

Creativity: by unleashing our creativity, we enhance engagement and interaction to improve problem-solving.
Collaboration: not only our work towards the same vision and mission instill staff with a strong sense of purpose, but also enables us to complement each other's skills and allocate work to maximize everyone's strengths.
Accountability: we hold ourselves responsible for accomplishing goals, completing assignments, and making decisions.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion: we embrace the importance of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, where our leadership and staff model behavior that enriches our organization, demonstrates respect for all people, and supports opportunities for all staff.
Transparency: we understand that when employees deeply trust one another and their leaders, they will be more engaged in their roles because they will not be worried about unfair treatment.

Overview:

URC is searching for an experienced Business Development (BD) Consultant who is available for multiple short-term assignments over the course of six to twelve months. Specific assignments under the consultancy will be administered under individual Work Order Agreements (WOAs). The number of assignments is not guaranteed.

Responsibilities:

The Consultant will assist URC with high-level processes and policies. The consultant will be required to interact with a wide range of staff to write, review, and finalize procedures. The Consultant will also develop competitive, responsive, and persuasive proposals; take a lead role in preparatory efforts for bids, including planning and completing capture; and provide guidance on pipeline development and pre-bid intelligence gathering efforts.

The specific Scope of Work will be issued after a candidate has been chosen, however, general assignments could include:

Lead in role knowledge management and capture of best practices and lessons learned for future business development activities.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and staff to write, review, and finalize business development documents.
Perform miscellaneous writing and editing tasks related to business development documents.
Ensure compliance and responsiveness within business development documents.
Facilitate of discussions over business development best practices and lessons learned, communicate processes and deliverables to cross-functional teams and staff, and ensure business development documentation is complete, responsive, and accurate.
Collaborate with regional team colleagues to form capture management and proposal development team(s).
Manage proposal teams in partnership with the proposal lead, leads regular proposal team check-ins, and ensure adherence to schedule; mobilizes resources throughout the proposal cycle.
Ensure compliance and responsiveness to procurement document(s).
Facilitate responsive solution design and ensure design is reflected in technical and cost volumes.
Lead capture efforts, including travel to the field. Additionally, lead in developing, maintaining, and communicating comprehensive capture plans with internal stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

URC is looking for an experienced business development consultant with previous experience working with business development for international organizations and the US Government.

Required Experience and Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
At least 8 years of Business Development Experience for international donor-funded programing.
Outstanding inter-personal skills and attention to detail and the ability to produce high quality deliverables in a fast-paced environment.
Experience drafting, reviewing, and finalizing corporate documents.
Ability to write and provide copy edits in English.
Ability to draft corporate communications in English.
Previous experience with US Government funding.

Please include your proposed consultancy rate within your application and/or cover letter.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Unless otherwise directed, we will retain your CV in our database for future opportunities.

URC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We value and seek diversity in our workforce

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Job Summary

Company

University Research Co., LLC

Start Date

As soon as possible

Employment Term and Type

Regular, Full Time

Required Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Experience

8+ years