Human Rights, Education, and Empowerment (HREE) New Business Lead (USAID Experience Required)

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in international development, education, or other relevant field required, Master’s Degree preferred.
• At least 8 years of international development with at least 6 years specifically in new business development.
• Experience with USAID proposals required.
• Familiarity with civil society, CTIP/safe migration, education, youth and workforce development, governance, child labor or related topics required.
• Success in winning USG and non-USG new business opportunities, specifically with USAID highly preferred.
• Comfort in leading new business strategy development, pipeline tracking, forecasting, analysis, and supporting capture.
• International field experience in Africa, Asia or Latin America preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, business proficiency in a second language preferred.
• Proven success in managing proposals, with experience in cooperative agreements and contracts preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership in proposal development for multiple USAID proposals valued at $15 million or more.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, manage, and sustain a robust new business pipeline for the Counter Trafficking in Persons and Safe Migration and the Child Labor and Education teams and identified adjacencies.
• Evaluate, expand, and sustain a new business landscape analysis that informs HREE’s new business growth strategy and strengthens our positioning in the market.
• Provide quality assurance on all capture and live opportunities to ensure sound strategies and decision-making.
• Conduct in-country capture to support new business opportunities, and lead or write proposals.
• Ensure talent development efforts are well defined, strategic and ongoing to build the technical new business acumen of the team.
• Manage all core new business functions including updating a monthly new business snapshot, hosting new business meetings, and engaging with the centralized New Business Support Unit.
• Collaborate closely with all HREE Directors and the Associate Vice President on all new business focused efforts.
• Supervise and support a new business Program Associate.
• Represent Winrock at key industry events and develop and maintain relationships with prospective partners.