The Role
Leads the full lifecycle of strategic donor proposals, including planning, drafting, editing, quality assurance, compliance, budgeting coordination, and submission. Supervises and mentors junior proposal staff, supports donor and partner research, improves proposal processes, maintains knowledge-management resources, and tracks performance metrics. Collaborates with Finance, HR, Operations, technical teams, and leadership to strengthen business development systems and improve proposal conversion.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join our dynamic team to help convert bold development ideas into winning proposals that drive social and economic transformation across emerging markets. This is your chance to work with global donors, collaborate with thought leaders, mentor a talented team, and strengthen systems that make real change happen. If you love bringing structure, creativity, and strategy together this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proposal Management: Lead and coordinate the full proposal lifecycle for strategic bids, from bid planning with technical team members, coordination with other internal teams to quality assurance and timely submission.
- Quality Control: Review and edit technical and financial proposals to ensure donor compliance, clarity, and strategic positioning.
- Team Leadership and Mentoring: Work closely with SI leadership on resource allocation for proposals. Supervise a small team
- of junior resources supporting proposal writing, providing guidance, feedback, and skill development.
- Content Development: Support drafting of EOIs, capability statements, and CVs ; refine with inputs from technical teams for coherence and impact.
- Strategic Support: Work with SI leadership on business development initiatives – donor and partner scoping, training and capacity building of SI team members and technical teams on proposal writing and budgeting.
- Process Improvements: Ideate and implement tools and frameworks to improve the quality of proposals, timely submissions and proposal development process.
- Knowledge Management: Maintain and enhance the proposal content library, CV database, and standard templates for efficient proposal turnaround.
- Cross-functional Coordination: Engage with Finance, HR, and Operations for budgeting, compliance documentation, and team composition inputs.
- Performance Monitoring: Track proposal submissions, conversion ratios, and lessons learned for continuous process improvement
Requirements
- Profile Requirements:
- Master’s degree in English, Business Management or equivalent fields.
- Minimum five years of relevant experience in business development, proposal writing, or donor engagement within a consulting or development organization.
- Strong leadership skills and experience in mentoring junior staff.
- Proven experience in preparing bids and ensuring compliance for international donors
- (World Bank, ADB, FCDO, USAID, GiZ, DFAT, etc.).
- Excellent writing, editing, and quality control skills.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite applications including Word and power point. Dexterity and strong capabilities using Microsoft excel and other MS-Office supported databases.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and language (English) skills.
- Proficiency in MS-Word, MS-Powerpoint and Advanced in MS-Excel.
- Experience in proposal writing, donor and partner scoping and landscape assessment.
- Identifying and profiling current and potential donors in the preferred geography.
- Summarize findings and share it with the larger MSC team.
- Willingness to work in a demanding, and results oriented team environment where priorities can change frequently.
- Ability to work in a deadline- bound environment and beyond regular working hours, as and when required.
- Ability to update data fields, synthesize data, and conduct rigorous data analytics.
- Must have led a team and can plan and allocate tasks with a strong understanding of task complexity, dependencies, and deadlines.
- Ability to delegate tasks effectively, ensuring team members are fully utilized. Collaborates to balance workloads and achieve shared goals.
- Good team player, ability to work with a global team and self-starter willing to take
- initiative.
- Ability to effectively present to internal teams to deliver training or external teams to
- provide company overview and capabilities.
- Ability to communicate information effectively and ideas in written and spoken format.
- Solid knowledge of the English language and capacity to write concise and articulate
- business emails with little to no supervision.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in English, Business Management, or an equivalent field
- At least five years of relevant experience in business development, proposal writing, or donor engagement within a consulting or development organization
- Experience preparing bids and ensuring compliance for international donors, including World Bank, ADB, FCDO, USAID, GiZ, or DFAT
- Strong leadership skills and experience mentoring junior staff
- Excellent writing, editing, and quality-control skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and related databases; advanced Excel capability
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in proposal writing, donor and partner scoping, and landscape assessment
- Ability to identify and profile current and potential donors
- Ability to synthesize data and conduct rigorous data analytics
- Experience leading a team and allocating tasks based on complexity, dependencies, and deadlines
- Ability to delegate tasks and balance workloads effectively
- Ability to work effectively with global teams and take initiative
- Ability to deliver training and present company capabilities to internal or external teams
- Ability to work in a demanding, deadline-driven environment with changing priorities and occasional work beyond regular hours
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The Company
What We Do
MSC (MicroSave Consulting) is a global consulting firm advancing social, financial, and economic inclusion in the digital age. It provides research, advisory, implementation, technical assistance, and capacity-building services, partnering with governments, donors, private companies, and local businesses. Its work spans financial services, enterprise, agriculture, health, food systems, rural livelihoods, digital transformation, policy reform, and sustainable development across developing countries worldwide.
