ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that is fighting for change that lasts, right here in the U.S. and across the globe. We bring sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. The organization is approximately 75 years old and has worked in over 100 countries around the world since its founding.
In the United States, we come alongside local churches, community organizations and hundreds of individual volunteers to support newly arriving refugee and other immigrant families. Today, we are proud to partner with over 6,000 local churches, and 95,000 volunteers globally to bring hope, healing and transformation to the most vulnerable.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
The Proposal Officer will play a critical role in supporting World Relief's efforts to secure, maintain and grow a robust portfolio of publicly funded grants. The team member will be responsible for researching and assessing World Relief's strategic positioning to pursue new opportunities. The Proposal Officer will support home office and country office-managed proposal development processes. The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years’ experience in developing high quality proposals for USAID and other technical donors and have a keen interest in developing new skills related to prepositioning and partnership development.
Role & Responsibilities
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The team member will play an active role in identifying new opportunities and working with technical leads to innovate and plan preposition strategies.
- Regularly track donor, potential donor, and umbrella websites for RFAs and proposal submission opportunities aligned to WR's priority sectors or countries
- Conduct background research on proposal opportunities to determine WR's competitiveness and strategic positioning
- Work closely with various technical leads to monitor trends and priorities of donors and collaborate with others to support the development of prepositioning plans.
- Alongside technical leads, arrange and attend meetings focused on building strategic partnerships with other organizations.
- Support all elements in the proposal development process.
- Roles will vary depending on the opportunity and may include coordinating a cross-functional, multi-sectoral team working on a proposal, serving in a proposal writing capacity under the leadership of others, reviewing and editing elements of proposal developed by other team members and/or other roles as needed to ensure the final proposal is competitive and appropriate for submission.
- Ensure effective and ongoing communication among WR departments and offices, external partners, and collaborators throughout the proposal development process.
- Maintain and grow intelligence-gathering network and ensure effective communication and collaboration between World Relief's longstanding Alliance partners, traditional collaborators, and others.
- Promote effective coordination of World Relief's overall proposal development efforts
- Maintain and monitor a tracking log of public funding opportunities actively being pursued by the organization.
- Ensure documentation and resources needed for proposal development are up to date and filed appropriately in the knowledge management system.
- Develop and utilize tools, templates, and work processes that result in streamlined and efficient proposal development and teamwork
- Through capacity-training and mentorship, build a strong internal collaborative system for proposal development.
Research, Intelligence Gathering and Preposition:
Proposal Development:
Operations and Process Coordination:
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Demonstrated success in developing high quality proposals for the US Government and other international agencies
- Clear understanding of institutional donor priorities related to global health and humanitarian assistance - especially the priorities of USAID (BGH, BHA), State Department (BPRM) and UN Agencies.
- Familiarity with building and managing consortia proposals.
- Outstanding English writing skills and strong analytical capacity assessment, and planning skills.
- Strong capacity for developing budgets for development projects
- Computer proficiency in MS Office and familiarity with project management software
- Strong leadership and teamwork skills
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills, ability to deliver when facing multiple projects with tight deadlines
- Familiarity with the international development community and donor solicitation processes (US government agencies, European Government agencies, multilateral agencies)
- Must be a self-starter, strongly motivated and interested in rapidly producing results
Requirements
- Mature and personal Christian faith
- Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
- Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
- Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
- University education in relevant field required (social sciences, applied sciences, business or similar). Advanced degree, preferred
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in relief and development field
- 3-5 years of experience with substantive proposal writing experience with USAID, UN Agencies and/or other institutional donors.
- Up to 25% domestic or international travel
World Relief offers a competitive benefits package (25 hours + per week):
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Offer 16 company Paid Holidays + 4 additional Personal days per year!
- Paid Sick and Vacation Time
- Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks for qualified employees)
- FSAs: Medical & Dependent Care, & Commuter Funding
- Supplemental Life Insurance (employee, spouse, and children)
- Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident insurance policies
- Legal Shield Insurance
World Relief pays 100% for eligible employees:
- Group Term Life (employee, spouse, and children)
- Long Term & Short-term Disability
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Long Distance Travel Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
World Relief - Retirement:
- 401K & Roth
- WR matches up to 4%, then an additional quarter percent up to 10%
- Eligibility: Full Time (40 hours per week) is eligible after 3 months of employment. Part time is eligible after 1000 hours in a year.
World Relief Discounts (Immediately Eligible):
- Verizon
- Pet Insurance through Nationwide
- Home and Auto insurance through Liberty Mutual
- Working Advantage Discount Program
- Active & Fit Gym Membership
World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
· While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations
· The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds.
· Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information.
· The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
· General office setting. World Relief also offers hybrid and remote schedules for limited positions.
· Great lengths of time working on computer, reading from computer screen, entering information, standing at copier or fax machine, and some time on the phone or in virtual meetings may be required.
· Year-end archiving activities involve repeated lifting and bending.
· Physical, emotional and intellectual demands
· Equipment used: Employee computer (desktop or laptop), printer, and copier.
· All of the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Individuals may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This position description is not all-inclusive and is always under review.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.
For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Legal Background in the United States
World Relief is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. World Relief strictly prohibits and does not tolerate unlawful discrimination against employees on the basis of person’s race, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law, which does not conflict with the protections afforded World Relief as a faith-based employer.
In addition, physical or mental limitations will not be a factor in the application of World Relief's employment policies or employee practices, except for those situations in which occupational requirement make consideration of such factors necessary.
Pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 702 (42 U.S.C. 2000e 1(a) World Relief has the right to, and does, hire only candidates who agree with World Relief’s Statement of Faith.
