Manager, Business Development
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Living GoodsGlobal health
Fully Remote: USA based, Availability 8:00 am - 4:00 pm ET for overlap with East Africa, West Africa and Europe.Full-TimeManager
SalaryA competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and annual performance bonus pay opportunity.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5 - 7 years of experience in fundraising or business development, including at least 2–3 years at manager level or in a role with comparable portfolio ownership.
- Required Skills
- Business DevelopmentBudgeting
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
- 5–7 years of experience in fundraising or business development, including at least 2–3 years at manager level or in a comparable role with portfolio ownership.
- Personal ownership of significant ($1M+) awards, from cultivation through signed agreement and into future renewals.
- Direct experience with institutional funder processes, including introductory meetings, pitch/co-creation discussions, concept notes, full proposals, due diligence, and negotiation of grant terms and requirements.
- Experience leading multi-stakeholder proposal development across program, finance, and compliance functions under tight deadlines.
- Experience in global health, international development, or an adjacent technical field sufficient to hold substantive donor conversations.
- Exceptional writing and communication skills, including developing clear and convincing materials for different audiences.
- Experience with budgeting and financial reporting.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, likely 2–3 times per year.
- Preferred: Existing relationships or credible networks among large U.S. global health foundations and corporate philanthropy, including technology and pharmaceutical companies.
- Preferred: Technical fluency in global health, digital health, or health systems, and experience with funder collaboratives or pooled funds.
Responsibilities
- Own a portfolio of existing and prospective U.S. foundation and corporate donors, with direct responsibility toward the team's annual funding target.
- Build and carry out engagement strategies to retain donors and secure new and increased funding, including larger multi-year restricted awards.
- Represent Living Goods in funder conversations about its approach, evidence base, unit economics, and path to scale.
- Lead and project-manage concept notes and full proposals, coordinating technical input, budgets, compliance review, and leadership engagement.
- Guide donor due diligence and negotiation of restricted terms and reporting requirements with Finance and Compliance.
- Support the CEO and other leaders in funder engagements and prepare them for interactions.
- Monitor opportunities and contribute to pipeline forecasting and donor surveillance across the U.S. market.
- Advise on grant reporting for the portfolio and work with the grant writer and Communications team on funder communications and collateral.
- Contribute to U.S.-market strategy and test new fundraising approaches and partnership models.
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