Essential Job Functions

STRATEGY & VISION

• Review donors’ strategic priorities and identify potential donors for Mercy Corps Pakistan’s strategic and geographic priorities.
• Advise and coordinate in-country donor engagement.
• Identify innovative program concepts and ideas to translate country strategy into programs and projects in consultation with program staff.
• Lead on strategic and timely positioning of Mercy Corps for various consortiums and partnerships for joint bidding for funding opportunities.
• Undertake desk reviews and lead on potential new funding models, such as innovative investment and private sector partnerships.
• Maintain a database for assessments and reports necessary for business development

PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT

• Act as the focal point for the organization for business development.
• Lead on the development of concept notes and funding proposals, in consultations with relevant program leads and Country Director
• Work closely with the Asia regional team and global offices for program design, proposal and budget development as well as incorporating comments and feedback.
• Maintain tracking tool of proposals and concept notes.
• Coordinate engagement with potential I/NGO partners as part of program design and proposal development.
• Lead and document the internal decision-making process for go/no go for identified funding opportunities.
• Develop, follow up and coordinate action plan for each funding opportunity to ensure timely and quality proposal/ concept note submission.
• Where required, design scopes of work, hire and manage external consultants to support program development and/or proposal writing, or other information required (needs assessment etc.).

REPRESENTATION AND COORDINATION

• Represent Mercy Corps in developing relationships with key donors and partner organizations
• Act as representative of Mercy Corps to organizations on program development matters, including attending key internal and external meetings.
• Represent Mercy Corps in inter-agency coordination meetings as assigned by the Country Director. Maintain record of external meetings and action points, and follow up accordingly.

PUBLICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS

• Work with technical teams to identify key donor strategic technical priorities, and source program evidence, lessons learned and key program content to coordinate, facilitate, and/or support the writing and production of capacity statements.
• Collaborate with program Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team to contribute to learning agendas, and research priorities, mapping of donor and current priorities.
• Work with the communications team to develop external communication and dissemination for strategic contents for business development and positioning.