DARPE Introduction

DARPE helps non-profit organizations, consulting firms, public agencies as well as individual consultants to identify tenders and grant opportunities; build informed partnerships, position their organizations, capture, and win new contracts and grants awards more consistently and strategically across the Middle East’s development-aid market. These, in turn, contribute to increased contract and grant awards and enhanced levels of revenue. We provide our members with business intelligence information that contributes to moving a tender or grant opportunity into a winning proposal throughout the MENA region, in one synchronized and searchable website. DARPE is the only platform in the Middle East that brings funders and implementers, businesses and non-profits, and everyone in-between together under one roof. Visit us at www.darpe.me for more information.

Job Summary

• Are you ready to step into the role of a Business Development Officer who searches, tracks, and identifies hundreds of bidding opportunities every day?
• Do you excel at assessing, synthesizing, and classifying bid opportunity by development sector, services, and geographic location?
• Are you eager to dive into, navigate, and review hundreds of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) or Request for Applications (RFAs) from donor agencies, international organizations, and local and regional profit and nonprofit entities?

If so, you might be the perfect fit for our expansive membership-based portal, which covers the international development sector across the MENA region. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and thrive in a dynamic environment, we would love to have you on board. 🌟

Responsibilities

1. Actively navigate websites of numerous donor agencies and development partners daily to identify, classify, and post Expressions of Interest, Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and Requests for Applications (RFAs) and any other procurement notices. These procurement opportunities are sourced from International Development Actors across the MENA region and are relevant to nonprofit organizations, consulting firms, and individual consulting assignments.
2. The officer will be responsible for skimming and reading procurement notes to classify them according to development sectors, sub-sectors, type of services, location of interest, and various other categories. This meticulous classification ensures that each opportunity is accurately categorized for easy access and relevance.
3. Organizations Mapping: Search, identify, classify, and post profiles of donor agencies, international organizations, national and regional NGOs, private development consulting businesses, and other entities that fund or implement development aid projects in MENA countries. Activities include synthesizing and writing organizational overviews, classifying per DARPE classification index, and finding contact information.

Qualification and Experience

• A university degree in international development, political science, sociology, business development, English literature, among others.
• 1-3 years of experience in within the international development sector and / or development cooperation projects and / or with international and local development organizations.

Job Requirements and Skills Required

• The job requires intensive internet mining and exploration. It requires long hours staying behind the screen.
• Intensive online research, classifying and archiving information from a wide range of online sources
• Quick reading, skimming & comprehension skills in English language.
• Critical thinking and scientific guessing skills
• High attention to details
• Demonstrates flexibility, agility and good spirit of team working skills

Key Performance Indicators

• Timely and accurately classified tenders and grants and organizations’ profiles.
• # Number of Published Tenders and Profiles monthly
• No missing-out of opportunities.
• Posting from newly emerging organizations and foundations.

Application Requirements

• An updated Curriculum Vitae
• Cover letter
• Include 2 references in the cover letter

Disclaimer

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the employee in this position. These statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of a person in this position. DARPE is a non-smoking work environment.

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