Business Development Manager

Position Title: Business Development Manager Location: Remote - United States, Kenya, United Kingdom Reports to: Business Development Director 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 requires direct familiarity with funders, capital providers and funding mechanisms operating in this space.  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.  Candidate Profile You are someone who: 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 Can build program budgets as well as funder-facing versions  Thrives in complexity—managing different funders, types of capital, proposal formats, and balancing competing  priorities without losing attention to detail  Operates with precision, organization, and a strong sense of accountability across multiple concurrent workstreams Collaborates effectively across regional program and investment…