Position: Regional Business Development Officer

Location: Tunis, with frequent travels to other Countries of the Region

Application deadline: 10/08/2025

Starting date: ASAP

Family duty station: YES

Reporting to: Head of Regional Unit

Contract Type: Expatriate (International)

Working context 

WeWorld’s North and West Africa (NWA) region covers five countries (Tunisia, Libya, Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin and Senegal) and has 100 dedicated colleagues.

We have been working in the NWA Region since 1986, ensuring strong commitment in the Humanitarian, Development, and Peace Nexus approach looking at complementarities and linking emergency relief, development, and peacebuilding as well as coordination between actors with the aim to build long term resilience.

All programs of the countries in the region are aiming to achieve the objectives of the WeWorld Global Theory of change and the three-years country strategies.

Job Description

Purpose of the Role

The Regional Business Development Officer plays a key role in project writing and donor engagement for the North and West Africa area. Under the guidance of the head of regional unit, the person oversees the work with the country team on projects’ design, contact with donors in the country and region, contact with the country team on project and donor relations, and capitalising on past and ongoing project experiences for the development of new opportunities.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Proposal Development (50%)

• Analysis of the calls, contributing to the definition of the risk assessment, providing the necessary elements for the Head of Regional Unit to decide on the go/no go
• Supports the country team in defining and creating partnerships so that they are consistent with the call request and add value to the proposal, and in managing the partnership throughout the proposal writing process
• Plays the role of proposal development manager, editor and/or coordinator as directed by the country team and the regional team
• Works closely with the country team to manage co-ordination and specific proposal development tasks, such as developing work plans, drafting the narrative, budget, consolidating and editing written contributions, developing technical annexes, drafting the budget and other tasks as required
• Facilitates design sessions in coordination with country staff, partners, regional teams and HQ, and ensures that proposal design is in line with the country strategy.
• Facilitates design sessions in coordination with country staff, partners, regional teams and headquarters, and ensures that proposal design is in line with the country strategy
• Contributes to ensure that proposals are of high quality, meet internal and donor standards and are submitted on time to the donor
• Collaborates with regional administrator/finance to ensure that project writing reflects regional financial target
• Supports in due diligence processes

Regional Donor Development (30%)

• Collaborates with the Head of Regional Unit and Country Representatives in intercepting more funding opportunities to strengthen WeWorld’s thematic and donor-based positioning, deepening knowledge and expertise on regional funding instruments, building more structured relationships with donors and relevant stakeholders in the regions
• Analyses donor trends and growth opportunities for the organization at regional level in collaboration with HQ Partnerships team

Capacity building and knowledge management (20%)

• Contribute to the development of training materials/modules and/or adapt and contextualize training resources and materials to meet country needs.
• Strengthening local skills in identifying funding opportunities and identifying and writing projects.
• Support to the country team in strengthening donor relations at country level and in acquiring and pre-positioning for upcoming funding opportunities.
• Provides technical guidance on donor rules and regulations to the country team to ensure projects comply with donor guidelines and procedures
• Supports the region in the knowledge management process, through the capitalization of information, the production of tools and documents for cross-regional use and the sharing of information between regions
• It captures best practices and lessons learnt and supports cross-learning opportunities in the region and globally

Regional Support

• Covers and provides support to other positions within the NWA regional team