Hybrid Business Development Specialist – Grants Acquisitions

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About the role

  • Grants Acquisition Specialist at Compassion pursuing and acquiring funding through proposal writing and collaboration. Ensuring donor requirements alignment and strategic objectives are met.

Responsibilities

  • Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children.
  • Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry.
  • Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct.
  • Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
  • Contributes to maintaining and improving the grant opportunity tracking system.
  • Conducts basic landscape analysis of funding trends, competitors, and strategic alignment, providing input to decision-making.
  • Investigates and summarizes potential sub-grant partnerships under guidance, including eligibility under donor rules.
  • Coordinates the proposal development process and collaborates with cross-functional teams (e.g., Finance, Legal, MERL) to ensure quality inputs.
  • Owns proposal writing and review processes to ensure completeness and compliance.
  • Coordinates and contributes to partner mapping and external engagement efforts for the National Office, serving as the primary point of contact for assigned components.
  • Reviews proposals to ensure alignment with donor requirements and internal standards.
  • Supports editing and final packaging of proposal submissions.
  • Contributes to preparing proposal components such as logic models, MERL frameworks, or budgets under guidance.
  • Collaborates with the Global Philanthropic Engagement team on integrating matched funding or foundation partnerships into proposals.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field
  • Advanced level of speaking, writing, and reading English required
  • 2+ years of relevant experience working in this or a related field
  • Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above

Benefits

  • N/A

Job title

Business Development Specialist – Grants Acquisitions

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridBrazil

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