Programmes and Business Development Manager

Reporting directly to the Director of Programmes and Business Development, you will work with

EFE-Europe’s Programmes, Business Development, and Finance teams, and the CEO, as well as with

staff across the EFE Network, managing projects and contributing to business development. This

position offers an excellent opportunity to continue to develop skills and experience with career

development opportunities within a growing international brand.

Main responsibilities

A.** **Programme Management
- Design, implement and oversee projects, including intervention strategy, work plans and

budgets, ensuring compliance with deadlines and donor requirements.
- Lead the drafting of narrative reports to donors and other stakeholders, ensuring compliance

with deadlines and donor requirements.
- Oversee programme staff assigned to specific projects ensuring the adequate completion of

tasks.
- Oversee project tracking, monitoring and evaluation.
- Coordinate activities with local partners, including organizing trips to oversee project

implementation, support project monitoring and provide technical assistance.
- Oversee administrative, financial and logístical tasks to organise project activities, meetings,

conference calls, travel arrangements and expense reports, and prepare and/or edit meeting

minutes, presentations, and spreadsheets.
- Oversee compilation of research and summary documents, filing of project documents and

budget monitoring.
- Oversee prospection for and contact local service/good providers to request quotes, invoices,

etc., and production and compilation of administrative records - e.g. invoices, travel-related

files, procurement for services and expenditures, OFAC/SAM cross-checking, etc. - and

cross-check them against actual project budgets.
- Support communications and visibility activities, including through updating communications

materials, and coordinating, drafting and formatting project posts for social media

dissemination, both in specific project accounts as well as EFE-Europe’s general accounts

(Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook and Instagram).
- Assist the Director of Programmes and Business Development with other ad hoc tasks as

required, with the flexibility and initiative to support the wider team goals.

B.** **Business Development
- Identify and assess funding opportunities, providing comprehensive inputs to inform

Go-No-Go decisions.
- Prepare a work plan with the tasks and team required to create a proposal, and ensure that

proposal development stays on schedule.
- Design, research for, and write proposals.
- In case of multiple writers, coordinate, edit, and finalise proposals to ensure consistency of

tone, language and message, and full compliance with the RFP or donor requirements.
- Create preliminary proposal templates, with support from the graphic design team.
- Assemble final text, graphics, exhibits and supporting documents for submission.
- Work with the Programme and Finance teams on proposal budget development.
- Assist the Director of Programmes and Business Development with other ad hoc tasks as

required, with the flexibility and initiative to support the wider team goals.

Experience, skills and qualifications

Essential
- Minimum of BA/BS degree from a top university (e.g. International Relations/ Political Science,

Communications, Development Cooperation, Economics, Law, or related areas).
- Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in development cooperation, with a proven

track record in project management, especially of European Commission
- and international

organisations-funded projects.
- Fluency in English and French mandatory (native or native-equivalent).
- Strong knowledge of the project management cycle.
- Organisation, time-management and forward planning to work against tight deadlines.
- Proposal-writing experience using an SDG and rights-based approach.
- Demonstrated ability to write in a detailed, factual, articulated and persuasive manner.
- Strong proposal budget development skills, and competency in financial management of

budgets and monthly accounts.
- Excellent interpersonal, communications, copywriting and presentation skills, with a keen eye

for detail.
- Excellent research skills.
- Strong work ethics and ability to work independently and in a team.
- Ability to travel.

Desirable
- Arabic and Spanish language skills.
- Experience in the MENA region.
- Design skills (Infogram, Adobe Suite - InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) and photography

and video editing skills.
- Background knowledge/experience in communications highly desirable.

Compensation: Commensurate with experience.

Note: EFE-Europe is an equal opportunity employer. It is EFE-Europe’s policy to seek out and hire, at all

levels, individuals without regard to race, religion, age, colour, nationality, gender, sexual orientation,

or physical ability. We affirm our policy of offering equal employment opportunities to all individuals

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