Summary
- Location: Remote (Preference for MENA/EU timezone)
- Duration: 2 months, 30 hours/week, with possibility of extension
- Compensation: $1,000/month gross consulting fee
- Application Deadline: 31st July 2025
Job Description
We are hiring a Programme Engagement Intern to support our business development team.
You’ll work under the Programme Engagement Assistant to manage the operational and coordination tasks that enable successful proposal submissions. While technical writing, budgeting, and recruitment are driven by senior team members, you’ll play a vital role in keeping the proposal cycle on track. This role is a great fit for someone early in their career but highly organized, communicative, and eager to learn the business development cycle from the inside out. Candidates who show strong promise in initial tasks may have the opportunity to write proposals and build a portfolio of projects successfully won for the firm.
Responsibilities
The following are the primary responsibilities of the role, with estimated allocations of time and attention.
Underpin: Proposal Writing Cycle
Approximately 80% of your time and attention:
- Scope and prioritise consultancy opportunities using internal tools
- Launch and coordinate the internal proposal writing task manager
- Manage cycle timelines and ensure task completion by collaborators
- Communicate with donors to request clarifications or increase name recognition
- Coordinate internally with staff to schedule proposal meetings or collect inputs
- Prepare submission materials (e.g., CVs, past performance docs, background forms) and collation into full proposal packages
- Submit proposal packages accurately and on time
Build: Our Prospects
Approximately 10% of your time and attention:
- Managing existing relationships with partners and clients, ensuring we stay visible and credible.
- Reflecting and executing on how we can best leverage colleagues’ skills and networks.
Develop: Farsight Systems
Approximately 10% of your time and attention:
- Suggest improvements to tools and workflows
- Contribute to post-proposal reflections and strategy feedback
Working with Farsight
An Excellent Candidate
The following are our minimum requirements for the role:
- Bachelor’s degree (completed or within one year of completion) in a relevant field (e.g., international relations, politics, economics, business, humanitarian studies, development studies, anthropology, sociology).
- Minimum 1 year of experience in resource mobilization for humanitarian, development, or social impact projects (e.g., consulting, grant-writing, etc).
- Strong writing skills with meticulous attention to detail.
- Proven ability to meet deadlines and manage competing priorities.
- Comfortable contacting clients, consultants, and senior staff — even when the conversations are uncomfortable (e.g., about money, delayed inputs, etc).
- Oral and written fluency in English.
The following qualifications would strongly improve a candidate’s chances:
- Fluency in an additional language, especially French or Arabic.
- Professional on-the-ground experience with the execution of a humanitarian, development, or social impact project.
- Demonstrated familiarity with humanitarian MEAL systems and/or how humanitarian actors commission and conduct research projects.
- Location in a time zone that facilitates submission of proposals against Central European Time (CET)-set deadlines.
Even though this is a junior role, the work is mission-critical. A single mistake - a missing document, or the wrong submission format - can invalidate an entire proposal. We are looking for someone who treats these tasks with care, sees what donors are really asking for between the lines, and is ready to grow.
To Apply for this Role
On or before 31st July 2025, complete our online application form by clicking the Apply button below. Before you start, confirm you meet the above listed minimum requirements and prepare a CV in a PDF format. You will upload this in our online application form.