Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Programme Design:  

• Lead the design of high-quality humanitarian, recovery, resilience, and humanitarian-development-peace nexus programmes.
• Translate donor priorities, contextual analyses, assessments, and organizational strategies into innovative programme concepts.
• Ensure programme designs are technically sound, gender-responsive, climate-sensitive, conflict-sensitive, inclusive, and country-led.

Business Development and Proposal Leadership:

• Lead technical proposal development for strategic humanitarian and development funding opportunities.
• Ensure program designs integrate protection, emergency preparedness and response, early recovery, and humanitarian-development-nexus approaches.
• Support technical quality assurance across humanitarian programs through technical guidance, reviews, and adaptive learning.
• Serve as Proposal Lead or Technical Lead for priority bids.
• Develop technical narratives, implementation approaches, and Theories of change.
• Support capture planning, opportunity positioning, competitive analyses, and partner engagement.

Technical Writing and Technical visibility:

• Prepare high-quality technical documents including concept notes, proposals, strategic papers, donor reports, briefing notes, case studies, and learning products.
• Review technical quality, consistency, and compliance of proposals before submission. Ensure evidence, data, lessons learned, and organizational experience are effectively incorporated into proposals.
• Maintain high standards of technical writing, editing, and document presentation.

Program innovation and impact:

• Promote evidence-informed programme design across the organization.
• Identify and document innovations, promising practices, and lessons learned.
• Support development of organizational guidance, templates, and programme design tools.
• Contribute to organizational thought leadership on humanitarian programming and business development.

Capacity strengthening:

• Strengthen organizational capacity in humanitarian programme design.
• Design and deliver formal training and informal mentorship programs to enhance internal technical writing for humanitarian settings and program design capacity across global teams.

What You Bring:

• Master’s degree in public health, International Development, Humanitarian Assistance, Social Sciences, Economics, Monitoring and Evaluation, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian programming, programme design, and international development.
• Demonstrated experience leading successful proposals for major institutional donors.
• Strong understanding of humanitarian architecture and humanitarian-development-peace nexus programming.
• Proven track record of leading successful proposal development processes for bilateral (e.g., FCDO, GAC), multilateral (e.g., UN agencies, Global Fund, World Bank), and private sector donors.
• Experience working in multicultural, multi-country contexts with demonstrated ability to engage global teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to tailor complex technical content to diverse audiences (donors, policymakers, partners, internal teams).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in humanitarian settings and humanitarian actors.
• Experience in graphic design and desktop publishing
• Experience in mentoring staff and capacity strengthening
• Fluency in French, Portuguese or Arabic

Why You’ll Love Working with Us:

• Join an innovative, forward-thinking organization that values your growth and ideas.
• Work within a supportive, collaborative environment.
• Make a meaningful impact on our business development and partnership portfolio.
• Enjoy a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Benefit from the opportunity for global engagement.