Deputy Director/Senior Manager - Resource Development

Job Description

Title: Deputy Director/Senior Manager - Resource Development

Company Name: World Vision Bangladesh

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar, Dhaka

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2026-04-30

Application Deadline: 2026-05-09

Education:

Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certifications:

• Master’s degree in international development, International Relations, Rural Development, Social Science or any related field. 

Experience:

• Minimum of five years’ demonstrable, hands-on experience in grant acquisition, including experience developing and managing capture plans and applications/bids managing capture plans; managing bids for opportunities large opportunities targeting major bilateral and multilateral institutional donors.

• Experience with public-private partnerships.

• Experience in acquiring funding from private donors (foundations and corporations).

PURPOSE OF POSITION

World Vision Bangladesh has a funded grant portfolio of over $50 million, with a significant volume of new opportunities that are actively managed in our current pipeline. There is significant potential for additional growth, which will require more proactive capture planning and management in seamless partnership with key World Vision Support Offices (SOs) and regional partners around the world.  

Key Responsibilities:

Resource Acquisition: Capture plan development and management; bid management; donor engagement

• Develop rigorous capture plans, consistent with Shipley model/approach allowing for two-year planning and preparation horizon that aligns all relevant actors.

• Assure effective management of all capture plans and take responsibility for leading and/or playing substantive role in management of high priority opportunities.

• Assure quality management of live bids including, but not limited to: managing go/no-go decision process involving SOs and key internal constituents within 24 hours from the release of an opportunity; development of detailed bid preparation plan (or “Bid Action Plan”) within 24 hours of “go” decision which clearly delineates timelines and responsibilities for all aspects of the bid process; lead color team reviews of major bids (over $5m), assuring that all reviewers understand their roles in review process.

• Actively engage and participate in strategic country donor meetings with subset of high priority donors as identified through rigorous market analyses, agreed upon by SMT, and documented in WVB Strategic Plan. 

• Working with WVB leadership, identify key relationships to strengthen national office positioning and elevate WV’s profile with government, multilateral and private sector donors.

• Ensure that the WVB and Regional Development Unit teams work in collaboration with SOs’ grant teams to actively maintain strong donor relationships at global, regional and country level, developing engagement strategies for each donor or a group of donors.

• In coordination with WVB Communications Director ensure the implementation of the global impact framework, and support the development of capacity statements, marketing and communication materials using the technical branding approach for donor engagement and prepositioning.  

• Facilitate relationships and build credibility with donors, using previous success and documented best practices in grant management.

Analytics and Pipeline Management: 

• Oversee BD Analyst to assure that WVB is prioritizing the right opportunities, has an accurate assessment of the competitive landscape and our win potential for specific opportunities, understands our comparative advantages (and disadvantages), identifies partners, conducts literature reviews as required to inform technical strategy and other research/analytics as required and appropriate.

• Establish an effective opportunity pipeline per industry standards that qualifies, prioritizes, and tracks all opportunities from early capture (two years before live) through post submission “lessons learned” for all major opportunities. Bid management systems should use gated approach (consistent with Shipley system), and be updated in real time and made accessible to WB leadership.  

• Oversee and/or participate in development and roll out of BD dashboards to keep senior leadership apprised of our progress towards BD targets, including but not limited to real time dollar win rate analyses.

Portfolio Management: 

• Develop partnerships and strategic engagements with corporate entities across the country and sectors including CSR Funding, Co-branding, payroll giving, volunteer services, etc.

• Overseeing all aspects of planning, preparation, implementation and follow up of national/local fundraising activities to diversify funding streams.

• Exploring and testing different local/national fundraising activities, collaborating with the regional and support offices.

Capacity Building:

• Ensure all WVB staff involved in grants, including the position holder have completed and are Proposal pro certified.

• Lead, manage and provide capacity-building support to employees in the WVB team, & seconded staff by ensuring clear goals and accountabilities are established and achieved.

• Ensure individuals’ performance and development needs are met, and employees are high performing and engaged.

• Lead with the SOs and regional RDU, the roll out of the partnership grants acquisition training software (i.e. Proposal Pro) and the use of Horizon for opportunity tracking.

• Develop a strong successor to be able to take up increasing grant management responsibility.

Strategy and Leadership:

• In coordination with the National Director, Senior Director Operations and other internal constituents as well as the Regional Resource Development Unit lead, develop and/or revise of the NO resource acquisition strategy to assure WVB acquisition targets are met.  

• In accordance with Global Fragile Context Strategy, WV processes for fragile context and the WVB Business Planning Cycle, assist the National Director and Senior Leadership Team in setting annual grant income projections to be used in the National Director’s Performance

• Provide day to day leadership and management to the National Office Resource Development to ensure timely and efficient support for capture planning and implementation, bid management, supervision of BD analytic including, but not limited to: donor market analyses; donor prioritization; competitive analyses; establishment of web-based pipeline management system to assure real time updates in HORIZON and others as need be. 
  

• Provident fund,Weekly 2 holidays,Gratuity
• Festival Bonus: 1