[Hiring] Senior Associate, Business Development, CEO Office @Clinton Health Access Initiative

Role Description

As a member of the team supporting CHAI's CEO, you will help build a new, lean business development and partnerships function that powers the CEO's donor engagement and CHAI's most strategic funding relationships. Working closely with the Chief of Staff to the CEO, you will support the resourcing of programs with transformational impact – such as ending HIV in Africa and building AI-native health systems – across a diverse portfolio of donors and prospects.

This is a practical, execution-focused role for someone who can operate with minimal direction, right-size their effort to what the moment requires, and move quickly. You will:

• Research and map CHAI's priority funders and identify prospects for new opportunities.
• Build pitch decks, proposals, and investment cases that turn CHAI's priorities into a compelling ask.
• Prepare the CEO and senior leadership for donor meetings and key convenings.
• Stand up the tools and coordination that hold a lean function together.
• Build and maintain AI-powered tools, including a custom donor CRM.
• Use AI to accelerate prospecting, enrich donor profiles, and surface relationship insights.

This is a unique opportunity to help stand up a new function from the ground up, work directly with senior leadership, and contribute to the resourcing of some of global health's most ambitious initiatives.

Qualifications

• Independent – You plan an efficient approach to practical problems, proactively identify and take next steps, and reliably deliver with minimal direction.
• Communicative – You respectfully and effectively navigate varied and sensitive stakeholder environments, from in-country teams to senior donor executives. You are an exceptional writer of memos and presentation materials.
• Adaptable – You are comfortable with ambiguity and shifting scope, quick to ramp up on new topics, capable of allocating effort across competing priorities, and willing to embrace steep learning curves.
• AI-forward – You are an AI superuser who not only uses modern tools but builds them. You can stand up sophisticated AI-powered workflows and applications — a donor CRM, digests, input-collection tools — and are eager to apply them to make a lean function far more productive.

There is no 'perfect' candidate for this role. We are seeking dedicated and passionate individuals who want to make a difference in global health outcomes. Whatever your background, if this role excites you, please apply.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5-6 years of work experience in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment (e.g., fundraising or development, strategy consulting, investment banking, business development, or a high-growth startup).
• Experience developing proposals, pitches, or fundraising materials, and communicating persuasively to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to build sophisticated AI-powered tools and workflows (e.g., a CRM or tracker, automated digests, data collection tools), with examples you can point to.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Superb communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

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