Drive business development in the region by providing effective proposal support, ranging from proposal management to comprehensive support and quality assurance.

Provide strategic planning support to country office teams in the setup of funding priorities and targets and supporting the achievement of the regional and country targets.

Serve as a member of the regional Program Development (PD) team, coordinating with other S/PDAs to share best practices and lessons learned to ensure high quality proposal submissions globally.

Serve as a member of the Regional Program and Awards Support Team (RPAS), serving as the business development point of contact for the region’s Senior Management Team (SMT) and participating in RPAS team initiatives to best support the region and country programs.

Lead and assist country teams in the identification, tracking and updating of new business opportunities across a variety of technical sectors and donors, including facilitating technical brainstorming, partner and competitor landscape analysis, and win theme sessions with technical and country staff.

Maintain up to date knowledge of donor funding priorities and geographical interests relevant to IRC’s area of work, collaborate with country programs to successfully position for new funding.

Donor and partner point of contact as applicable per region. Works closely with team members of Regional Program and Award Support, Business Development, and across all teams within Awards Management Unit, Crisis Response Recovery and Development Department, Finance, and other key departments within IRC. Reports to the Director, Awards Management, West Africa, and the Director of Business Development, Regional.

The SPDA serves as the regional focal person for all business development for institutional donors in the IRC’s West Africa region, which comprises country programs in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote D’Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone. Support includes all phases of the business development process, from opportunity identification to contract signature, including pre-positioning and capture, partnerships, proposal development, and due diligence phases. The Senior Program Development Advisor (SPDA), West Africa leads IRC’s new business development efforts in support of West Africa’s country programs, in line with IRC’s Business Development Strategy and country Strategy Action Plans (SAPs). The regional teams are the links between country offices and key HQ departments, and aim to support and provide advice to country programs with a range of issues from strategic planning, business development to compliance, awards management and partnerships management. The CRRD works across 6 regions globally, including West Africa, East Africa, Great Lakes, Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In all these programs, there is a drive to address the unique needs of women and girls (who represent the majority of those displaced) – and the universal barriers they face. This work focuses support in five key areas: ensuring safety from harm, improving health, increasing access to education, improving economic well-being and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. The Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD) Department has a growing portfolio of humanitarian relief, post-crisis recovery, and development programs under their remit.

The Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD) Department This unit ensures that donor compliance policies and procedures are implemented consistently, and supports all staff working across the award management cycle for all restricted funding from global government sources. The AMU is a bridge between donors and country programs: providing expert technical advice to the country teams, while maintaining portfolio-level visibility to ensure consistency and compliance, and manage risk. The department is includes the following teams: Program and Award Support, Strategic Partnerships, Compliance and Policy, Business Development, and Training. Established in January 2016, the Awards Management Unit (AMU) is a global department with the responsibility for identifying, securing, and managing all funding from statutory/government donors.

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