Business Development Manager

Chinese Association for Renewable Energy, Inc.; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellbeing program

Flexible working including home option

NFP salary packaging up to 15,899 tax-

Job summary

CARE Australia is seeking a Business Development Lead to strengthen institutional funding performance through strategic positioning, high-quality proposal development and robust approaches. The role collaborates with Country Offices and partners to secure high-value funding from major donors.

We offer a flexible working environment, including working from home options, a generous base salary with leave loading and salary packaging benefits, plus a health and wellbeing program and employee

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in International Development / Studies or equivalent experience preferred.
• Extensive experience in institutional resource mobilisation and donor engagement.
• Experience leading complex institutional funding proposals for major donors (DFAT, MFAT, FCDO, UN, multilaterals).
• Strong understanding of donor funding mechanisms, compliance requirements, procurement approaches and proposal standards.
• Ability to coach teams and deliver quality work under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction on donor engagement, relationships and funding approaches across Country Offices and partners.
• Lead or oversee complex, high-value and priority funding opportunities from positioning through submission.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and support partnership and commercial arrangements for selected bids.
• Ensure proposals are competitive, evidence-based, compliant and aligned with donor requirements and CARE's strategic priorities.
• Improve proposal development systems, tools and templates, while coaching teams to strengthen resource mobilisation capability.

Skills

Donor engagement

Proposal development

Institutional funding

Stakeholder management

Compliance knowledge

Project management

Written communication

Education

Bachelor degree in International Development / Studies

Job description

Flexible and supportive working environment including working from home options

Generous base salary including 17.5% annual leave loading and NFP salary packaging benefits (up to $15,899 tax free)

Health and Wellbeing program and Employee Assistance Program

Additional leave and substitution of public holidays

The Opportuntity

CARE Australia (part of CARE International) is an international aid organisation working to defeat global poverty by supporting women to create lasting change in their communities around the world. We are seeking a Business Development Lead to strengthen CARE Australia’s institutional funding performance through strategic positioning, high-quality proposal development and robust business development approaches.

Key responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction on donor engagement, relationship building and funding approaches across Country Offices and partners
• Lead or oversee complex, high-value and priority funding opportunities from positioning through submission
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and support partnership and commercial arrangements for selected bids
• Ensure proposals are competitive, evidence-based, compliant and aligned with donor requirements and CARE's strategic priorities
• Improve proposal development systems, tools and templates, while coaching teams to strengthen resource mobilisation capability

About you

• Bachelor degree in International Development / Studies or equivalent experience preferred
• Extensive experience in institutional resource mobilisation, proposal development and donor engagement within the international development or humanitarian sector
• Demonstrated experience leading or providing strategic oversight for complex institutional funding proposals, preferably for DFAT, MFAT, FCDO, UN agencies, multilateral development banks or comparable donors
• Strong understanding of institutional donor funding mechanisms, compliance requirements, procurement approaches and proposal quality standards
• Experience leading proposal design and partnership development, and collaborating with Country Offices, local partners, consortium members or geographically dispersed teams
• Strong strategic judgement, project management, influencing and written communication skills, with the ability to coach others and deliver quality work under tight deadlines

Questions about the role?

Please contact Emily Hill, Head of Program Development, **********@care.org.au.

CARE Australia is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We value diversity and encourage applications from people living with a disability and/or have lived experience of disability.

We also encourage Pacific Islander people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to apply.

Should you require any accommodations or support during the application process, please don’thesitate to reach out and let us know.

Safeguarding and Compliance

All CARE Australia employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy, Preventing Sexual Abuse & Harassment (PSEAH) policy and Code of Conduct.

CARE Australia is part of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and will seek information from job applicants’ previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment, and/or child abuse the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer. By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms they have no objection to CARE Australia requesting the information specified above.