Senior Associate, Business Development, CEO Office

Clinton Health Access Initiative • or CHAI Program Country,

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About The Position

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries. CHAI works with governments and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems. Founded in 2002 to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic by reducing drug prices and increasing access to medicines, CHAI has expanded its focus to include infectious diseases like COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis, as well as non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and hypertension. The organization also works to accelerate vaccine rollouts, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. CHAI invests in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing, with a strategy focused on sustainable impact at scale, government leadership, national scalability, and global knowledge sharing. CHAI values diversity and inclusion, recognizing that its mission is best advanced by a diverse team.

As a member of the team supporting CHAI's CEO, this role will help build a new, lean business development and partnerships function. This function will power the CEO's donor engagement and CHAI's most strategic funding relationships. Working closely with the Chief of Staff to the CEO, the role will support the resourcing of programs with transformational impact, such as ending HIV in Africa and building AI-native health systems, across a diverse portfolio of donors and prospects. This is a practical, execution-focused role requiring independence, the ability to right-size effort, and quick movement. The individual will research and map CHAI's priority funders, identify prospects, build pitch decks, proposals, and investment cases, prepare the CEO and senior leadership for donor meetings, and establish the tools and coordination for the function. A key aspect of the role involves building and maintaining AI-powered tools, including a custom donor CRM, to accelerate prospecting, enrich donor profiles, and surface relationship insights. This is a unique opportunity to help establish a new function from the ground up, work directly with senior leadership, and contribute to the resourcing of ambitious global health initiatives.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5-6 years of work experience in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment (e.g., fundraising or development, strategy consulting, investment banking, business development, or a high-growth startup).
• Experience developing proposals, pitches, or fundraising materials, and communicating persuasively to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to build sophisticated AI-powered tools and workflows (e.g., a CRM or tracker, automated digests, data collection tools), with examples you can point to.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Superb communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a fundraising, development, or business development function in the social impact space, in consulting, or raising capital in a startup.
• Familiarity with the philanthropic and donor landscape, including foundations, high-net-worth individuals, and mission-aligned funders.
• Knowledge of global health and development landscape including key funders, stakeholders, and broader trends and dynamics.
• Experience working remotely with a decentralized team.
• Experience working in or supporting low- and middle-income countries.
• Professional fluency in other languages, such as French and Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Developing engagement strategies and mapping relationships, networks, and decision-makers for CHAI's key donors and prospects, and identifying the highest-potential paths to deepen them.
• Conducting donor prospecting and research to identify and qualify new funding opportunities, using AI tools to accelerate research and build and enrich donor profiles.
• Building compelling donor pitch decks, proposals, and investment cases that translate CHAI's priorities into a clear ask for a range of funder audiences, working with program, country, and functional teams to gather inputs.
• Compiling and coordinating responses to general RFPs and funding solicitations, working across program and functional teams to assemble timely, high-quality submissions.
• Preparing high-quality briefing notes and talking points for the CEO and senior leadership ahead of key donor meetings and external engagements.
• Coordinating CHAI's presence at key conferences and convenings, including planning, scheduling, materials, and follow-up to maximize relationship-building and visibility.
• Designing, building, and maintaining a custom AI-powered donor CRM and the broader toolkit that runs the function – tracking relationships and touchpoints, generating regular digests and updates for the CEO and leadership, and keeping donor data current and actionable.
• Managing the CHAI Development inbox, maintaining donor portal logins, and handling the day-to-day operational tasks that keep the function running.
• Systematically gathering input from program, country, and functional teams on their BD needs, and translating it into a coherent strategy and lightweight tools to collect input and report back across the organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed