About The Position
IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board) is seeking to establish a roster of qualified individual consultants and/or firms to provide business development and proposal development support across a range of technical and operational areas. This RFP is intended to support surge and ongoing proposal needs across IREX’s portfolio. Offerors may submit qualifications for one or more functional areas. IREX anticipates awarding multiple contracts and establishing a pre-qualified pool of consultants. Consultants will provide support across the full proposal lifecycle, including capture, design, drafting, costing, and submission. Specific assignments will be issued on a task-order or call-down basis. This is a remote (work-from-home) position.
Requirements
- Proven experience in one or more functional areas listed above
- Strong track record supporting proposals for major donors
- Ability to work independently and as part of fast-paced, distributed teams
- High attention to detail and ability to meet tight deadlines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- At least 10 years of proposal experience for technical writers and proposal managers
- Experience across a variety of donors
- Ability to meet compressed deadlines and participate in rapid review cycles
- Professional English writing/editing proficiency
Nice To Haves
- Other languages are an advantage
Responsibilities
- Supporting proposal development processes from pre-positioning through submission
- Producing high-quality, donor-compliant deliverables aligned with solicitation requirements
- Participating in proposal design workshops, review cycles, and coordination processes
- Collaborating with internal staff, partners, and subject matter experts
- Delivering work under compressed timelines with strong quality control
- Draft technical narratives, including technical approach, implementation, and management sections
- Translate design inputs into clear, compelling proposal language
- Ensure responsiveness to solicitation requirements and evaluation criteria
- Support concept notes, executive summaries, and narrative revisions
- Lead proposal planning, timelines, and deliverable tracking
- Coordinate inputs from internal teams, partners, and consultants
- Ensure compliance with donor requirements (formatting, page limits, submission)
- Facilitate review processes and decision points, ensuring a competitive and compliant bid
- Develop detailed budgets and cost narratives
- Ensure accuracy, competitiveness, and compliance with donor regulations
- Align technical design with cost assumptions
- Conduct cost realism checks and budget validation
- Design results frameworks, indicators, and learning approaches
- Integrate MEL into proposal design and technical approaches
- Develop MEL plans aligned with donor expectations
- Support adaptive management and evidence-based programming frameworks
- Manage document control, formatting, and version management
- Coordinate annexes, attachments, and submission materials
- Manage logistical and administrative support for proposal teams including meeting scheduling and note-taking
- Support copyediting, formatting, and final packaging
- Ensure submission readiness and compliance checklists
- Provide sectoral expertise
- Contribute to program design, theory of change, and technical approaches
- Draft or review specialized sections of proposals
- Ensure approaches reflect current best practice and evidence
- Recruit qualified key staff for proposal teams
- Create graphic elements for proposals including cover sheets and visual elements
- Copyedit proposal narratives
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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