Unlocking social and financial capital for impact-creating startups solving the world’s biggest problems.
About the role
This role independently owns the end-to-end execution of the BD function, managing the day-to-day pipeline from prospecting and opportunity qualification through proposal development, CRM management, collateral creation, and reporting. This role serves as an operational backbone for the team, enabling the BD Director to focus on strategic partnerships, high-complexity opportunities, and relationship management. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Is comfortable engaging, not just with traditional institutional funders, but with private philanthropy, family offices, and impact investors
- Understands the funding landscape in the intersection of grant funding, blended finance and impact investing, and can speak confidently to funders operating across philanthropy and impact investments
- Has a track record of significant grant and investment wins
- Is detail oriented, and views prospecting as both an art and a science, going the extra mile to identify the right prospects
- Manages day-to-day responsibility with little oversight
- Is as comfortable maintaining a CRM as writing a narrative funder or board facing report
More about this role
Position Title: Business Development Manager
Type of Role: Full-Time, Fixed-Term (12 months)
About Village Capital
Village Capital is a US domiciled 501(c)(3) that delivers entrepreneur support programs and manages blended pools of investment capital. Known for its innovative approaches to supporting founders building solutions to social, economic, and environmental challenges, Village Capital unlocks social and financial capital for early-stage companies to maximize business and impact growth.
Since 2009, Village Capital has supported over 2,000 startups that have raised over $9 billion in follow-on investment capital.
Role Overview
At Village Capital, business development means raising grant funding and catalytic investment capital, not traditional sales or nonprofit fundraising. This function requires fluency in how philanthropic, blended and impact capital work and engaging with funders and investors that deploy them.
The Business Development Manager is a critical execution role sitting at the intersection of international development fundraising, blended finance and impact investing. This is not a generalist BD role and not a traditional nonprofit fundraising role. It...
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