Senior Technical Advisor – Humanitarian and Business Development

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Offer strategic and technical guidance in the formulation of humanitarian, recovery, resilience, and humanitarian-development-peace nexus programs.

• Convert donor priorities, contextual analyses, assessments, and organizational strategies into creative program concepts.

• Spearhead technical proposal development for key humanitarian and development funding avenues.

• Incorporate protection, emergency preparedness and response, early recovery, and nexus strategies into program designs.

• Ensure technical quality assurance through guidance, reviews, and adaptive learning practices.

• Act as Proposal Lead or Technical Lead for high-priority bids.

• Create technical narratives, implementation strategies, and Theories of Change.

• Assist in capture planning, opportunity positioning, competitive analysis, and partner engagement initiatives.

• Draft concept notes, proposals, strategic papers, donor reports, briefing notes, case studies, and learning products.

• Evaluate proposal quality, consistency, and compliance prior to submission.

• Integrate evidence, data, lessons learned, and organizational experience into proposals.

• Identify and document innovations, promising practices, and lessons learned.

• Develop organizational guidelines, templates, and program design tools.

• Contribute to the organization’s thought leadership in humanitarian programming and business development.

• Design and conduct training and informal mentorship to enhance technical writing and program design skills.

• Collaborate with the Director of Business Development & Partnerships, country offices, technical advisors, BD advisors, MEL team, and partnerships teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s degree in public health, International Development, Humanitarian Assistance, Social Sciences, Economics, Monitoring and Evaluation, or a related discipline.

• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian programming, program design, and international development.

• Proven experience in leading successful proposals for significant institutional donors.

• Strong grasp of humanitarian architecture and the humanitarian-development-peace nexus programming.

• Established history of guiding successful proposal development processes for bilateral, multilateral, and private sector donors.

• Experience in multicultural, multi-country environments and engaging with global teams and stakeholders.

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to adapt complex technical content for diverse audiences.

• Experience in humanitarian settings and with humanitarian actors is preferred.

• Proficiency in graphic design and desktop publishing is a plus.

• Experience in mentoring staff and enhancing capacity is preferred.

• Fluency in French, Portuguese, or Arabic is an advantage.

• Submission of a resume, cover letter, and contact information for at least 3 references is required.

• Subject to legally permitted vetting checks.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Supportive and collaborative work environment.

• Opportunities for global engagement.

• Growth and innovative ideas are valued.