Business Development Specialist II, ESARO

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in international development, international relations, or related field.
  
• Minimum eight years of international development experience.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in international development, international relations, or related field.
  
• At least three years' experience in a developing country.
  
• Demonstrated experience utilizing diverse, proactive strategies to competitively position an organization for new funding and productive institutional relationships.
  
• Demonstrated experience leading and producing competitive proposals in programming contexts similar to CRS.
  

• Provide BD expertise to country leadership and programming teams in positioning, capture planning and proposal preparation for specific opportunities with institutional donors (government, multilateral, foundations, corporations and other awarding non-governmental organizations).
  
• Manage pre-positioning, capture and proposal development processes to ensure timely execution and submission of high-quality proposals that are responsive to donor requirements, applicable regulations, and CRS’ technical and cost standards.
  
• Deploy as proposal coordinator, and advise on opportunity analysis, lead go/no-go decisions, capture planning, and coordinate partner inputs and proposal review panels.
  
• Deploy as a lead or support writer on proposals, contributing both technical and non-technical content and integrating inputs from staff and partners into a responsive, coherent proposal with a compelling vision and clear win themes.
  
• Deploy as budget lead or to support the lead in developing proposal budgets. Provide recommendations to develop a competitive proposal, as required.
  
• Serve as proposal design lead, guiding technical strategy, structuring the design process, and coordinating inputs across regional, country, and global teams to ensure coherent, donor‑aligned proposals.
  
• Strengthen design quality and competitiveness of projects by ensuring evidence‑based approaches, integration of cross‑cutting priorities (e.g., MEAL, partnerships, gender, climate), and timely delivery of high‑quality concept notes and proposals.
  
• Guide and advise on partner identification and negotiating CRS’ role in proposal consortia. Ensure a competitive position for CRS that adheres to the agency’s partnership principles and strategic directions.
  
• Liaise with senior management and donor engagement focal points to develop a resource mobilization strategy for a specific region, country, sector, or donor. Support senior management in cultivating and strengthening relationships with institutional donors, partner organizations and other stakeholders.