Vital Strategies Health Systems (Asia Pacific) Limited – Business Development and Communications Intern

Overview:

Vital Strategies Health Systems (Asia Pacific) Limited business development (BD) core team members are currently engaged in prioritizing our key partners in Asia and developing strategies to conduct effective outreach. In the near future, steps to carry out relationship management, organize pipeline development, conduct capture planning and provide proposal preparation support will follow. For relationship management, the team shall work together with all programs and existing country/regional partners, highlighting existing projects and conceptualizing key pieces of work that can be built upon existing offers and those that add value to our constituencies. For pipeline development and capture planning, the team will collaborate closely with champions in the programs/technical divisions as well as New York Headquarters BD unit to identify and actively monitor upcoming opportunities and will play substantial role to strategize teaming arrangements, staffing, and approaches. The APAC BD core team will play a key role in intelligence gathering and positioning strategies that strengthen Vital APAC’s stature, credibility, and likelihood of winning new business. The team’s role in proposal development will include: working with program teams and technical divisions to resource proposal roles; writing proposal sections; facilitating the development of compliant, well-written, and compelling technical volumes; coordinating the development of cost volumes; and preparing high-quality annexes, graphics, and overall proposal presentation responsive to donor requirements and in line with corporate branding. The BD team collaborates cross-departmentally for effective proposal development and guides continuous refinement of internal processes (including tools, templates, and other resources) to strengthen efficiencies and overall quality of the proposal development process.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Vital Strategies Health Systems (Asia Pacific) Limited is committed to enhancing the capabilities and exposure of students and graduates into the area of development, both regionally and locally within Singapore, to deepen their development management skills. We are pleased to offer semester-long internships to current Undergraduate and Graduate students on our Business Development team. The Business Development Intern will provide support to all stages of communications and relationship development, capture and proposal development continuum while working under the guidance and supervision of core BD team members in Singapore, BD team members at New York - HQ, communication team members in Singapore and New York - HQ and Vital’s Asia Pacific Regional Director.

Responsibilities will include:

• Conducting background research on competitors, countries, projects, donor priorities and funding, and other BD specific information;
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of the BD unit’s databases and filing systems;
• Supporting the development of communications materials for updating of the Vital APAC website and relationship management needs with prioritized partners;
• Providing administrative and logistical support, including organizing meetings and conference calls with Singapore based academic and implementation partners, regional partners at APAC, potential implementing partners, staff, and within the core BD unit;
• Writing BD-related materials including marketing one-pagers, capacity statements, and other thought pieces as well as proposal sections such as CV formatting, past performance references, and institutional capacity sections; and;
• Contributing to quality of written content including proofreading, formatting, and editing documents.

Minimum requirements:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree
• Analytical and comfortable with data
• Good interpersonal skills, positive attitude, and strong work ethic
• Adaptable, self-directed and detail-oriented problem solver with ability to thrive in high-performance environment
• Highly competent in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
• Proficient in written and verbal English
• Able to commit for a minimum of 6 months

Desired Experience & Qualifications

• Applicants residing or attending schools in Singapore preferred.
• Currently enrolled in a graduate program.
• Available to start immediately