Project Oversight and Management – 50%

• Support and contribute to a portfolio of projects in the international sector focused on knowledge management, organizational learning and CLA
• Support high-quality outputs, deliverables, and overall implementation.
• Provide hands on support to contracts, including advising with activity startup and closeout.
• Serve as a point of escalation for project issues, including responding to clients, resolving issues, solving problems and helping team members iteratively adapt.

Corporate Initiatives – 20%

• Support the Senior Practice Director in the continued adaptation and implementation of Bixal’s KM and CLA strategy and vision.
• Support learning initiatives to improve impact across the organization and support the roll-out of Bixal approaches.
• Lead learning activities such as after-action reviews (AARs), portfolio level reviews and pause and reflect sessions.
• Collaborate across the international practice and companywide to ensure impactful implementation.
• Represent the company to donors, partners and collaborators to advance the interests of the company.
• Serve as a thought leader and high-level representative for Bixal in the wider development community.

Business Development – 30%

• Capture and develop new business opportunities to expand Bixal’s presence within the international MEL sector.
• Manage staffing assignments and hiring to ensure delivery needs are met on new business capture and proposals.
• Lead proposal solutioning, technical writing and content creation.
• Develop partnering arrangements and select key and non-key personnel for proposals.
• Further define technical objectives by roles and responsibilities to inform staffing structures and level of effort for proposals.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree plus 6 years progressive experience in similar roles.
• A comprehensive understanding of USAID Washington and mission operations.  
• New business experience including proposal writing and teaming.
• Proven expertise in knowledge management, organizational learning and/or CLA.
• Passion for developing and/or using learning activities and tools that improve development impact.
• Demonstrated thought leadership in approaches to knowledge management, organizational learning and/or CLA.
• Understanding of USAID’s program cycle.
• Ability to travel at least 15%

Nice to haves

• Experience working directly for USAID in a Mission or Washington is a plus.
• Familiarity with digital development.
• Other language skills.  
• Contract management experience.