Proposal Manager - Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Position Summary We are seeking an experienced bilingual Proposal Manager to support complex, competitive proposals for international development programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. The selected consultant will help lead proposal\-development efforts for public\-sector, foundation, and private\-sector funding opportunities. This is a remote, project\-based consulting position anticipated to begin in August 2026\. Assignments may involve managing multiple proposals with overlapping deadlines. The consultant must be able to collaborate professionally in both English and Spanish. Candidates with experience supporting agrifood systems, agricultural market systems, entrepreneurship, market\-based development, livelihoods, or economic\-opportunity programs are strongly preferred. Responsibilities * Lead complex proposal\-development processes from kickoff through final submission. * Analyze solicitations and develop compliance matrices, proposal calendars, workplans, outlines, and submission schedules. * Facilitate kickoff meetings, design workshops, partner discussions, and structured proposal reviews. * Coordinate technical leads, country teams, monitoring, evaluation and learning specialists, finance and pricing teams, recruiters, partners, and executive reviewers. * Assign and track proposal inputs, dependencies, deadlines, and review actions. * Identify schedule, compliance, staffing, partner, and content risks and develop practical mitigation measures. * Support proposal design activities, including theories of change, results frameworks, logical frameworks, implementation approaches, and work plans. * Organize Pink Team, Red Team, and other structured reviews. * Consolidate and adjudicate reviewer comments. * Review proposal content for compliance, consistency, responsiveness, accuracy, and completeness. * Draft, edit, or strengthen sections of technical proposals when needed. * Ensure alignment among technical, staffing, operational, monitoring and evaluation, and budget narratives. * Coordinate final production and submission\-readiness reviews. Required Qualifications * Demonstrated experience managing complex, competitive proposals for government, bilateral, multilateral, foundation, nonprofit, or private\-sector funders. * Professional oral and written fluency in both English and Spanish. * Strong experience coordinating multidisciplinary, geographically dispersed proposal teams. * Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines. * Experience developing proposal schedules, compliance tools, responsibility matrices, review plans, and submission checklists. * Strong writing, editing, and synthesis capabilities. * Ability to translate technical concepts and contributions from multiple authors into clear, persuasive proposal content. * Experience with structured proposal\-review processes. * Availability to support deadline\-driven work, including occasional extended hours during critical submission pe