Hybrid Senior Bid and Partnership Manager

at Near East Foundation

• Job title: Senior Bid and Partnership Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: €66,700 - €76,560 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Brussels, Belgium

About the role

• Senior Bid and Partnerships Manager at Near East Foundation focusing on strategy and proposal development. Requires bilingual proficiency in French and English with significant experience in aid and development sectors.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic oversight of proposal development processes, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and high-quality standards; support the initiation, structuring, and coordination of priority proposals, including managing large and strategic bids from capture to submission.
• Take responsibility for the overall quality of submissions, including contributing to final narrative sign-off; conduct high-level editorial review to ensure clarity, persuasiveness, and consistency across narratives, logframes, budgets, and annexes.
• Ensure rigorous quality assurance by supporting compliance with donor requirements, strengthening strategic positioning and articulation of impact, ensuring coherence across technical, results, and financial components, and aligning submissions with organisational priorities and value-for-money principles.
• Provide guidance and constructive challenge to technical and program teams; coordinate internal review and validation processes to ensure high-quality, timely inputs from stakeholders.
• Contribute to the improvement of proposal tools, templates, and processes, embedding lessons learned and best practices, while supporting capacity strengthening through coaching, mentoring, and training.
• Participate in proposal review committees and support go/no-go decision-making; coordinate due diligence processes and provide guidance on donor requirements throughout the proposal lifecycle.
• Support oversight of the business development pipeline, contributing to the prioritisation of high-value opportunities aligned with organisational strategy; help maintain and refine pipeline management systems to support decision-making.

Requirements

• A university degree in a relevant subject.
• Demonstrate an outstanding command of written and spoken French and English.
• 8-12 years of experience in the humanitarian/development sector, demonstrating a strong track record in positioning, capture, and bid management.
• A self-starter, who demonstrates excellent attention to detail, and ability to plan, communicate, and deliver effectively with diverse teams at pace.
• Ability to rapidly navigate different thematic and geographic contexts, including complex and high-pressure environments.
• Demonstrated ability to develop strong working relationships with diverse teams across multiple geographies.
• Demonstrated grasp of effective and values-based partnerships in the Humanitarian/Development sector.
• Working knowledge of written and/or spoken Arabic.

Benefits

• 25 Annual Leave Days
• 11 Holidays
• employer paid private medical, dental and, vision coverage for the employee
• private pension with 8% employer contribution
• flexible work arrangements