Job Title: Senior Technical Advisor, Humanitarian and Business Development
Location: Preferably Burkina Faso, Cote D’Ivoire, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Mozambique, Nigeria, Niger, Tanzania, Uganda, or United States
About Us: For nearly 70 years, Pathfinder International has been a catalyst for
systems transformation, inclusive growth, and resilient communities in over 120
countries across the world. With a global footprint spanning Africa, South Asia,
and the Middle East, we invest in women, girls, and communities by expanding
access to essential health products and services while advancing health systems,
unlocking leadership pathways, and strengthening economic and climate
resilience. Through strategic partnerships with civil society, governments, and
the private sector, we scale innovations and data-driven models that deliver
measurable impact. We advance this work alongside men and communities,
co-creating and building environments and systems to ensure every woman has the
agency to shape her future and lead a healthy, fulfilling life.
Your Impact: The Senior Technical Advisor, Humanitarian and Business
Development, will provide strategic and technical leadership in designing
high-quality humanitarian and nexus programmes and will support organizational
growth through competitive business development. The position will lead to the
development of evidence-based, innovative, and donor-responsive proposals across
humanitarian, recovery, resilience, and development programming. Reporting
directly to the Director Business Development & Partnerships and working closely
with country offices, technical advisors, BD advisors, the MEL team, and
partnerships teams, the Senior Technical Advisor will translate organizational
strategy into winning funding opportunities and technically robust programme
designs. This position will also strengthen organizational capacity in programme
design, technical writing, and proposal development in the humanitarian sector.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Programme Design:
Lead the design of high-quality humanitarian, recovery, resilience, and
humanitarian-development-peace nexus programmes.
Translate donor priorities, contextual analyses, assessments, and
organizational strategies into innovative programme concepts.
Ensure programme designs are technically sound, gender-responsive,
climate-sensitive, conflict-sensitive, inclusive, and country-led.
Business Development and Proposal Leadership:
Lead technical proposal development for strategic humanitarian and
development funding opportunities.
Ensure program designs integrate protection, emergency preparedness and
response, early recovery, and humanitarian-development-nexus approaches.
Support technical quality assurance across humanitarian programs through
technical guidance, reviews, and adaptive learning.
Serve as Proposal Lead or Technical Lead for priority bids.
Develop technical narratives, implementation approaches, and Theories of
change.
Support capture planning, opportunity positioning, competitive analyses, and
partner engagement.
Technical Writing and Technical visibility:
Prepare high-quality technical documents including concept notes, proposals,
strategic papers, donor reports, briefing notes, case studies, and learning
products.
Review technical quality, consistency, and compliance of proposals before
submission. Ensure evidence, data, lessons learned, and organizational
experience are effectively incorporated into proposals.
Maintain high standards of technical writing, editing, and document
presentation.
Program innovation and impact:
Promote evidence-informed programme design across the organization.
Identify and document innovations, promising practices, and lessons learned.
Support development of organizational guidance, templates, and programme
design tools.
Contribute to organizational thought leadership on humanitarian programming
and business development.
Capacity strengthening:
Strengthen organizational capacity in humanitarian programme design.
Design and deliver formal training and informal mentorship programs to
enhance internal technical writing for humanitarian settings and program
design capacity across global teams.
What You Bring:
Master’s degree in public health, International Development, Humanitarian
Assistance, Social Sciences, Economics, Monitoring and Evaluation, or a
related field.
Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian
programming, programme design, and international development.
Demonstrated experience leading successful proposals for major institutional
donors.
Strong understanding of humanitarian architecture and
humanitarian-development-peace nexus programming.
Proven track record of leading successful proposal development processes for
bilateral (e.g., FCDO, GAC), multilateral (e.g., UN agencies, Global Fund,
World Bank), and private sector donors.
Experience working in multicultural, multi-country contexts with demonstrated
ability to engage global teams and stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills, with ability to tailor complex technical
content to diverse audiences (donors, policymakers, partners, internal
teams).
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working in humanitarian settings and humanitarian actors.
Experience in graphic design and desktop publishing
Experience in mentoring staff and capacity strengthening
Fluency in French, Portuguese or Arabic
Why You’ll Love Working with Us:
Join an innovative, forward-thinking organization that values your growth and
ideas.
Work within a supportive, collaborative environment.
Make a meaningful impact on our business development and partnership
portfolio.
Enjoy a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
Benefit from the opportunity for global engagement.
Ready to Apply? If you are passionate about financial functions and are eager
to make a difference, we would love to hear from you! Please submit your resume
and a cover letter detailing your experience and why you are the ideal candidate
for this role via this website no later than September 19th, 2026. You are also
requested to include the contact details for at least 3 references in your
resume.
Please note that this position will be filled on a rolling basis.
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