We are looking for an organised, analytically minded Associate to play a central role in shaping the proposals and projects that drive our Social Sectors Financing portfolio within the Human Development practice. This is a hybrid role that sits at the intersection of strategy and delivery — well suited to someone who enjoys structuring complex ideas into compelling outputs and holding multidisciplinary teams to a high professional bar.
The Social Sectors Financing portfolio works on some of the most consequential questions in development: how governments and donors finance health, education, social protection, and nutrition; how scarce public resources can be deployed more effectively; and how new financing instruments can mobilise resources at the scale these challenges demand. Your role is to help us win this work and deliver it well.
On the business development side, you will support the preparation of proposals, expressions of interest, and concept notes for governments, foundations, UN agencies, and bilateral partners. You will coordinate inputs across technical contributors, help shape narratives and workplans, support budget development, and ensure that submissions are coherent, sharp, and deadline-ready. Strong proposals are won on substance and craft — you will be central to both.
On the delivery side, you will support the coordination of selected live projects: tracking deliverables and timelines, managing internal workflows, quality-assuring client-facing outputs, and helping ensure that engagements run smoothly from kick-off to close. You will work alongside senior colleagues with deep sectoral expertise and gain genuine exposure to how complex international development projects are actually run.
This is a role for someone who takes pride in the quality of their work, brings calm under deadline pressure, and wants to build a meaningful career at the intersection of consulting craft and social impact. Beyond the immediate scope, the role offers strong exposure to the commercial and strategic dimensions of consulting — perspective that sets up well for future progression in the practice.
In this role, you will:
Own the coordination of proposal processes end-to-end — from initial scoping through to submission — for bids to governments, foundations, UN agencies, and bilateral donors across health, education, social protection, and nutrition.
Draft, structure, and edit proposal content, including technical narratives, workplans, team biographies, and supporting annexes, ensuring submissions are clear, compelling, and tightly aligned to client requirements.
Support budget development in collaboration with senior colleagues and finance, contributing to commercially sound and donor-compliant submissions.
Coordinate live projects — tracking deliverables, managing internal workflows, monitoring timelines, and supporting the quality of client-facing outputs.
Build and maintain the systems that keep a busy portfolio running well: opportunity pipelines, proposal trackers, partner databases, and project documentation.
Engage constructively with senior colleagues, partners, and clients, representing the practice professionally in coordination conversations.
