Big Blue seeks an experienced professional to help us win opportunities with positive impact organisations around the world. Below are the topline points:

• Scope opportunities
• Draft and submit highest-quality proposals
• Win amazing projects
• Improve our profile among potential clients worldwide
• Present team and services to highest standards
• Improve our proposal systems

About Big Blue

Big Blue is a digital partner to people with life-changing ideas.

We chase the world’s big issues. Water, environment, education, public health, and opportunities for women and girls.

Share ideas, joy, and tea with us.

Shape your craft, and wield your powers. Own and lead.

You have life missions. Your work here can support those missions.

We want you to be a powerful, invested player on this team.

Push us and our partners to imagine big.

We can do big things with care, intensity, kindness, together.

Employment type

• Full-time
• Initial 2-year contract to be extended based on performance (3-month review period)

Responsibilities

Business development, analysis, research

• Scope and present opportunities to the team daily
• Ensure team is aware of opportunities as early as possible
• Ensure regular, increasing opportunity pipeline
• Attend funder meetings to discuss opportunities
• Create relationships with potential funders

Bids and proposals

• Analyse project terms of reference in extremely fine detail
• Produce and deliver highest-quality proposals
• Coordinate proposal submission processes
• Coordinate proposal content with teammates and partner organisations 
• Be absolutely committed to production of highest-quality, well-researched, on-brand proposals
• Ensure highest standards of language, content, tone, clarity, grammar and formatting
• Research best industry insights into opportunities, pricing, and offerings
• Write business cases, competitor analyses, executive summaries, and market research summaries
• Ensure that proposal content and language is structured to align with client priorities

Continuous improvement

• Maintain proposal tracking system
• Maintain an extremely well-ordered proposal document system, including document templates, slide templates, profiles, bios, CVs, capability statements, knowledge products, project case studies, and folder system
• Gather feedback on successful and unsuccessful proposals, and ensure lesson learning, analysis, feedback, and future recommendations within our team

Requirements/Experience

• Demonstrated ability to 1) scope opportunities 2) win projects
• 3-5 years of experience
• Experience with digital agency or marketing team desired
• Experience in the positive impact space a plus
• Strong desire to work with a growing digital team and help us create a culture that will make an impact on the worl
• Extremely high demonstrated English communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Always kind, accommodating, and helpful to teammates and clients
• Passionate about support to people, planet, and animals
• “Get things done” mindset

Application and interview process

1. Complete short online application
2. We will contact high-potential candidates by email
3. Initial 30-minute phone discussion
4. 1-hour phone interview for shortlisted candidates on a rolling basis until the position is filled

Why work with Big Blue

• Create joy and excitement among partners who are changing the world
• Join a culture of care and kindness
• Join a culture of excellence and high expectations
• Work with a team that celebrates leadership and ownership
• Join a non-hierarchical system, where everyone is only a Slack message away
• We want to hire exceptional people and work for exceptional partners
• We will align your work missions here with your life missions
• We work hard, but we deeply respect down-time, quiet time, and holidays
• We move fast and value speed and productivity, and you will always be supported

What happens next?

After the application period concludes, we will:

• Review all applications and identify those with highest potential
• Email you and invite to have a chat with us either on a video or an audio call
• Discuss your experiences and expectations
• We may call you again to have another set of discussions with more teammates
• We will make an offer to the highest-potential candidate