Manager, Business Development

Living Goods; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Annual performance bonus

Job summary

Living Goods seeks a Manager, Business Development to build the philanthropic partnerships in the U.S. market. You will identify, cultivate, secure, and steward multi-year investments from US-based foundations and corporate funders, focusing on larger, technically complex opportunities.

You will keep funders engaged and drive renewals with compelling reporting. This remote role reports to the Deputy Director, Foundations and Corporates, coordinating with teams across East and West Africa, the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 5–7 years of fundraising or business development experience.
• Direct experience with institutional funder processes and grants.
• Experience leading multi-stakeholder proposal development.
• Global health, international development, or related field knowledge.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of US foundation and corporate donors with revenue responsibility.
• Build engagement strategies to retain donors and secure multi-year funding.
• Represent Living Goods in funder conversations, including technical discussions.
• Lead and project manage concept notes and full proposals with cross-functional input.
• Coordinate due diligence, terms negotiation, and reporting requirements.
• Monitor opportunities and contribute to pipeline forecasting and donor surveillance.
• Collaborate with Communications to craft funder-facing collateral and updates.
• Contribute to US-market strategy and test new fundraising approaches.

Skills

Fundraising

Relationship ownership

Proposal leadership

Donor engagement

Budgeting & reporting

Global health

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel readiness

Grant writing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Title: Manager, Business Development

Reports to: Deputy Director, Foundations and Corporates

Location: Fully Remote: USA based - US Eastern or Central time zone preferred. Availability 8:00 am - 4:00 pm ET for overlap with East Africa, West Africa and Europe.

About Living Goods:

Community health is one of the most proven ways to save lives. But as community health systems scale, many struggle to maintain quality, control costs, and deliver consistent results. Scale without performance puts lives at risk.

Living Goods is a government performance partner that supports countries in Africa to build affordable, intelligent, high-impact community health systems. For almost 20 years, we have worked alongside the governments of Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso to make community health work at scale. Our work focuses on aligning policies, financing, technology, and workforce to turn government investment into consistent, reliable, quality care for families. Our approach is research-proven, built for real-world constraints, and delivers life-saving care for about $2 per person served.

As global health funding tightens and expectations for measurable results grow, governments need systems they can afford, sustain, and manage for results. Our 2027–2030 strategy is built for this moment. It focuses on strengthening the operating foundations of government-led systems, scaling proven solutions, and developing new approaches to emerging challenges, including intelligent systems that use data and AI to better support government community health workers (CHWs) and the systems around them.

Our vision is simple: when families need healthcare, it’s there. Not eventually. Not only when a program reaches them. But reliably—through systems designed to work, improve, and endure.

The Opportunity:

Living Goods is seeking a Manager, Business Development to build the philanthropic partnerships in the U.S. market that make our 2027–2030 strategy possible. You will identify, cultivate, secure, and steward multi-year investments from US-based foundations and corporate funders, with a focus on larger and technically complex opportunities. You will keep funders engaged and invested over time, building the relationships and results reporting that drive renewals and increased giving.

This is a role for an experienced fundraiser who is ready to carry a meaningful share of our revenue target and to step into senior funder conversations. You will own your portfolio of relationships, lead the proposals behind them, and sharpen how we tell the Living Goods performance story to U.S. funders.

You will report to the Deputy Director, Foundations and Corporates, and work closely with colleagues across Business Development, Programs, Innovations, Digital Health, Finance, Advocacy, and Communications in East and West Africa, the U.S., and Europe.

Youwillthriveinthisroleif...

• Youbuild enduringrelationships.

Youarecomfortableleadingafundermeeting,notjustsupportingone.You can find the overlap between a funder's priorities and ours, adjust your message for each audience, and keep a relationship warm through the long stretches of a 12-to-24-month cultivation cycle.

• You can go deep when the conversation gets technical.

A program officer at a large funder will ask aboutuniteconomics,scalepathways,governmentintegration,andevidence.Youcangiveasubstantive answer, and you know when and how to bring in technical colleagues from other departments when needed to go deeper.

• Youruncomplexproposalswithaccuracy and confidence.

Youmanageup,down,andacross the organization tocoordinatewinning proposals.Youanticipatethenextstep,gettheinputsyouneedfromFinance,Programs,andCompliance, make judgement calls on what goes in, and push back-on colleagues when the proposal needs it.

• Youareagile.

Youcanpitchaplanthatis stilltakingshape,andyou don't need perfectly settled materials to move a relationship forward. You are resourceful, rigorous about priorities, and calm under tight external deadlines. You seek feedback and use it and are excited to build a career in an organization that is changing quickly.

Responsibilities:

Relationship ownership and revenue

• OwnaportfolioofexistingandprospectiveU.S.foundationandcorporatedonors.Thisisanexternally facing role with direct revenue responsibility toward the team's annual funding target.
• Buildandcarryoutengagementstrategiestoretain donors and securenewandincreasedfunding,includinglarger, multi-year, restricted awards.
• RepresentLivingGoodsinconversationswithfunders,includingtechnicaldiscussionsonour approach, evidence base, unit economics, and path to scale.
• Position Living Goods to win funding from large, technically complex foundations, corporate funders, funder collaboratives and pooled mechanisms by building relationships with funders, shaping our case for support, and pursuing opportunities as they open.
• Support the CEO and other leaders in funder engagements, makingsureleadershipiswell-preparedforeveryfunderinteraction.

Proposal Leadership

• Lead and project manage concept notes and full proposals, coordinating technical input from ProgramsandDigitalHealth,budgetswithFinance,compliancereview,andleadershipengagement.
• Guidedonorduediligenceandthenegotiationofrestrictedtermsandreportingrequirements, working with Finance and Compliance.
• Facilitatestrategicdecisionsonwhichfundingandpartnershipopportunitiestopursue and what the most compelling pitch for Living Goods would be, aligned with funder interests.
• Supportopportunities to bid with partners, such as implementers and technology providers, where a joint approach strengthens our competitiveness.

Pipeline, reporting, and strategy

• Monitoropportunities and contribute to pipeline forecasting anddonor surveillanceacrossthe U.S.market.
• Advise on grant reporting for your portfolio, sharing what each funder cares about and how they like to receive results, so reports are tailored to the donor.
• WorkwiththegrantwriterandCommunicationsteam tocreateandupdatefundercommunicationsand collateral that reflect Living Goods' messaging.
• ContributetoU.S.-marketstrategy,includinghowtheteampositionsour2027–2030strategyto funders and test new fundraising approaches and partnership models.

Qualifications and Experience:

Required

• Bachelor'sdegreein a relevant field.
• 5 - 7yearsofexperienceinfundraisingorbusinessdevelopment,includingatleast2–3yearsat manager level or in a role with comparable portfolio ownership.
• Personal ownership of significant ($1M+) awards, from cultivation through signed agreement and into future renewals. We are looking for relationship ownership, not only contributiontoateameffort.
• Directexperiencewithinstitutionalfunderprocesses,includingintroductory meetings, pitch/co-creation discussions, conceptnotes,fullproposals,due diligence, and negotiation of grant terms and requirements.
• Demonstratedexperienceleadingmulti‑stakeholderproposaldevelopmentacrossprogram, finance, and compliance functions, producing high-quality work under tight deadlines.
• Experienceinglobalhealth,internationaldevelopment,oranadjacenttechnicalfieldsufficienttohold substantive conversations with donors.
• Exceptionalwritingandcommunicationskills,withtheabilitytodevelopclearandconvincing materials that are attentive to nuance and audience.
• Experiencewith budgeting and financialreporting.
• Collaborative spirit, demonstrated by active listening, clear communication, being a team player, and earning trust acrossdepartments,with executive team members, country teams, and peers.
• Willingnessto traveldomestically and internationally, likely 2-3 times per year.

Preferred

• ExistingrelationshipsorcrediblenetworksamonglargeU.S.globalhealthfoundationsandcorporate philanthropy, including technology and pharmaceutical companies.
• Technicalfluencyinglobalhealth,digitalhealth,orhealthsystems,enoughtoengagecrediblyonprogramdesign.
• Experiencewith funder collaborativesor pooled funds.

Compensation

A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and annual performance bonus pay opportunity. This is an opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need!

Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.