Partnerships Coordinator

The proposed role contributes to growing CORE’s institutional funding stream through supporting competitive bids (Requests for Proposals/Agreements) among U.S. government, multilateral organizations, state, and local public entities for assigned markets. The end goal is to secure revenue to fund CORE’s frontline efforts in its 3 strategic pillars - Emergency Response and Preparedness, Health Equity and Addressing Climate Change. This person will work alongside market partnership leads to track and identify relevant emerging opportunities, support proposal development and coordination, contribute to pipeline development, conduct market research, and lead annex coordination for proposal packages. This is a remote position that reports to the Global Director of Program Development. 

Responsibilities:

• Support proposal processes from technical development, to research, drafting, narrative reviews, and finalization.
• Conduct market, context, and technical subject research to support proposals, development of win themes, pipeline development, and resource mobilization strategies, including desk reviews on strategic topics and research on evidence- based approaches to selected program methodologies.
• Coordinate annex development for proposal processes as assigned.
• Support proposal managers by developing proposal calendars and using a variety of methods (e.g., meetings, emails, check- ins) to ensure proposal development stays on track.
• Support proposals with formatting and layout, development of graphs and visuals, and copy editing.
• Ensure that proposal narrative and all proposal documentation align with donor requirements, procedure, and scoring
• criteria.
• Liaise with implementing (sub) partner counter parts to gather letters of support, due diligence documentation ,etc.
• Support the expansion of CORE’s pipeline by identifying and supporting pre-qualification of new bid opportunities by gleaning from current trackers as well as online searches.
• Support proposal managers to update and manage opportunity profiles in CORE’sCRM system.
• Actively participate in any lessons learned activities or After-Action Reviews to contribute to improved processes and ways of working.

Scope and Travel:

• No direct reports
• Travel10-15%LOE

Qualifications:

• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, international relations, business development, nonprofit management and development, client service, account management or related field.

Experience:

• Prior experience in a nonprofit partnership-related role, national-level experience preferred, and international experience is a plus.
• Prior exposure to development of marketing and communications materials, writing fundraising proposals, and applying for grant applications.
• Well organized with excellent time-management skills and commitment to deadlines. Comfortable planning ahead and anticipating and mitigating delays.
• Proactive and decisive approach to work and takes responsibility for deliverables. Comfortable reaching out to colleagues and partners to seek input and follow up on deliverables.
• Team player who is committed to achieving collective goals.
• Experience using Salesforce for partnership management, cultivation, and engagement.
• Work independently and effectively in a high-pressure, fast- paced environment handling multiple tasks simultaneously and working across geographic timezones.
• A high level of competence with Microsoft Office suite (advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills) is essential. Knowledge of Power BI, or other business intelligence tools in support of complex, federally funded proposal submissions preferred.

Skills and Competencies:

• Sharp attention to detail and data integrity.
• Must be able to read, write and communicate effectively in English.
• Additional language skills in UN common languages (French, Arabic,Spanish) or languages spoken in CORE country offices (Ukrainian, Haitian Creole) a plus.
• Ability to use sound reasoning and judgment to resolve issues.
• Ability to build and maintain strong cross-cultural relationships.