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Job Title:   Business Development Specialist

Organisation: Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) supporting relief and development work in over 100 countries around the world. CRS carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. CRS’ Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations, serving people on the basis of need, regardless of creed, ethnicity or nationality. CRS works through local church and non-church partners to implement its programs.

Job Summary:  As a Business Development Specialist, you will contribute to the production of high-quality proposals in support of CRS’ Country Program Strategy and its donor engagement priorities to enable CRS’ continued efforts to serve the poor and vulnerable in Uganda. Your knowledge and skills will contribute to the strengthening of the BD processes within the country program.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Contributes to proposal development processes to ensure the timely submission of high-quality proposals that meet donor requirements, applicable regulations, and CRS technical and cost standards.
• Contributes to the non-technical writing of proposals and participates in proposal review committees.
• Integrates the contributions of technical contributors, CRS and partner staff to produce coherent and responsive proposals.
• Helps to develop and maintain donor and competition intelligence documents using CRS business development tools and guidelines.
• With the business development team and others, supports documentation of lessons learnt from existing projects and their incorporation into proposals.
• Works with appropriate staff to maintain a register of past performance references for quick incorporation into proposals.
• As delegated by Strategic Business Development Specialist, leads mapping and relationship building with local entities including NGOs, private sector, universities, etc.
• As delegated by Strategic Business Development Specialist, leads local partner and GOU positioning and engagement

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in international development, international relations or a related field.
• At least three years of experience in emergency and development programming within Uganda
• Very strong writer with an expert mastery of English grammar
• Demonstrated experience with competitive proposals in programming contexts similar to those of CRS.
• Familiarity with USG funding mechanisms and proposal requirements is highly desirable.
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Strong strategic, analytical, systems thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to see the big picture.
• Good relationship management skills with ability to communicate with people internally and externally.
• Proactive, resourceful, solution-oriented and results-oriented.
• Experience with MS Windows and MS Office packages (Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and web conferencing programs
• Excellent English language oral and written communication skills required.
• Willing and able to travel within the country approximately 30% of the time
• Work Conditions/Environment Conditions: Normal office presence position

How to Apply:

All interested and qualified candidates should please Email a cover letter and CV only to ug_recruitment@crs.org

Note:

• Large files and/or scans of documents will lead to rejection of your application, in the subject line of the email, copy and paste – BUSINESSDEVELOPMENTSPECIALIST only
• All applications that do not contain this exact subject line will be rejected and not read

Deadline: 22^nd November 2021 at 5:00pm.

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