Individual Consultant Roster – ECHO HIP FY27 Proposal Development Support

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is updating its roster of individual consultants to support ECHO Humanitarian Implementation Plan (HIP) proposal development across multiple regions. Consultants will provide expertise in bid leadership, pricing and budget support, technical leadership, and proposal writing to ensure high-quality, compliant proposals for humanitarian funding.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end development of an ECHO HIP proposal for an assigned country or opportunity
• Coordinate between country programme technical teams, grants staff and the IRC Awards Management Unit
• Ensure narrative quality, compliance with ECHO's Single Form requirements, and overall proposal coherence
• Draft and revise proposal narrative components, log-frames and annexes to a publication-ready standard
• Incorporate feedback from country and headquarters review cycles
• Work within IRC's proposal templates and formatting requirements
• Develop and quality-assure ECHO-compliant budgets
• Ensure alignment between narrative, log-frame and financial submission
• Apply ECHO's budget templates and cost-eligibility rules accurately
• Provide sector-specific technical design input for ECHO HIP proposals, for example Education in Emergencies
• Ensure technical design aligns with donor priorities and IRC's technical standards
• Support integration of technical content into the proposal narrative and log-frame

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience developing ECHO HIP proposals, ideally with a track record with IRC or comparable international NGOs
• Familiarity with ECHO's Single Form, budget templates and quality standards
• Language capability matching the region(s) applied for (English required across all regions; French essential for WACAR; Spanish essential for Latin America; Arabic an advantage for MENAU)
• Availability to work remotely; in-country or time-zone-aligned availability is an advantage for Asia
• Availability to work concurrently with other assignments during peak proposal submission periods
• Bid leadership: demonstrated experience leading proposal teams and managing donor compliance requirements
• Pricing and budget support: demonstrated experience applying ECHO cost-eligibility rules and donor budget templates
• Technical leadership: sector-specific technical qualifications and experience, for example in Education in Emergencies
• Proposal writing: strong technical writing skills in the required language, with experience incorporating reviewer feedback under time pressure

Skills

• ECHO HIP proposal development
• ECHO Single Form
• Budget template management
• Donor Compliance
• Proposal team leadership
• ECHO cost-eligibility rules
• Donor budget templates
• Technical leadership in Education in Emergencies
• Technical Proposal Development
• Incorporating reviewer feedback
• Remote Work Coordination

Languages

English, French, Spanish, Arabic