Senior Advisor, Global Health Technical Proposal Writer (P4)

Summary

Save the Children’s Department of Global Health (DGH) has strong expertise in a wide range of thematic (reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, nutrition, HIV/TB) and cross-cutting (social and behavior change, health systems strengthening, WASH, urban health) areas. The Senior Advisor, Global Health Technical Proposal Writer will participate in proposal research and program design and lead proposal writing efforts to expand global health programming, leveraging Save the Children’s global program experience and technical thought leadership.

In this role, you will bring relevant experience to lead and support U.S. government-funded and privately-funded opportunities, and will collaborate and coordinate closely with department technical and senior leadership and the New Business Development staff in the Department for Portfolio Growth and Performance. To achieve high-quality results, the Technical Proposal Writer is expected to be a successful proposal writer and team player. The Technical Proposal Writer is a critical position to advance the agency's strategic growth whose actions will substantially contribute to Save the Children’s ability to competitively and successfully pursue and acquire funding, thereby increasing the agency's resource base for children.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Program Development Resource Mobilization (90%) 

• Collaborate closely with DGH, New Business Development, Resource Development and Country Offices:
  • Lead and participate in capture planning and positioning for assigned public and private health opportunities.
  • Serve as technical proposal writer for assigned opportunities, collaborating with the Technical Lead and a variety of Technical Contributors to produce compliant and compelling proposal content that will yield the highest possible evaluation score from the donor.
  • Lead outline development and storyboarding process.
  • Write and refine the proposal sections and develop “one voice” that speaks to the reader, bringing the approach and key activities to life.
  • Review background information and interview stakeholders to understand the critical win themes, unique value propositions, organizational approaches, and standards that must be highlighted throughout the entire document.
  • Work directly with the Technical Lead to gather information and success factors that can feed into the proposal.
  • Engage with proposal team to prepare drafts for and respond to feedback from color reviews.
  • Conceptualize graphics, tables, and text boxes in order to emphasize strengths of the design and content within the documents.
  • Comply with solicitation requirements to ensure that final draft exceeds donor requirements.
  • Serve as a reviewer for assigned opportunities to ensure alignment with Save the Children approaches and donor criteria.
  • As needed, direct selected proposal development processes, such as developing proposal calendars; designing, leading, or participating in design workshops to develop program strategies and activities; and coordinating and editing of technical, capability, and management inputs.
  • Liaise and coordinate with sub partners to provide clear, complete, and timely instructions and feedback for proposal deliverables.
  • Liaise and coordinate with prime partners to produce high quality competitive proposals, ensuring timely and responsive inputs that maintain and strengthen Save the Children’s reputation as a partner of choice while effectively representing technical, managerial, and budgetary priorities.

Strengthen Program Development Capacity and Knowledge Management (10%)

• Collaborate closely with Knowledge Management staff and technical leadership to strengthen DGH program development resources, particularly technical content, global, country and thematic capability statements, and project past performance references.
• Identify and strengthen DGH program development tools and systems, specifically around technical content and materials.
• Support program development capacity building of Global Health staff in Save the Children proposal processes and standards.
• Ensure program development resources are archived, uploaded and available on intranet for ongoing reference.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated record of writing successful proposals and well-written, succinct technical documentation to support resource mobilization efforts
• Proven knowledge of USAID and large foundation donor programming and technical procurement procedures
• Development program