Organization Description
ATS+Partners is an HR & organizational development firm that believes that engaged, high-performing leaders and employees build and inspire successful organizations. Our services include diversity executive search, board recruitment, stakeholder communications, talent recruitment support, staff training, and consulting services.  Our mission is to make an impact by providing an innovative approach to meeting the human capital needs of mission-driven organizations through a multitude of diverse & inclusive strategies.

Position Description
Are you seeking a new career experience while making a social impact? Do you have prior business development and client management experience? If so, our Associate, Business Development position might the next career move for you. We are seeking a special individual who wants to help our partners achieve their organization's mission. You are a perfect match for our Associate, Business Development position if you are:

• Flexible: You see your role as a critical link in supporting your mission-driven organization partners. You will go above and beyond to ensure that ATS' seizes the right opportunities in our target markets.
• Reliable: “Follow-up” and “Follow through” are your best work qualities, and it propels our work forward faster.
• Eager: You are excited about developing solutions that meet the needs of mission-driven organizations and want to grow with ATS.
• Dedicated: You have a sense of urgency. You don’t see a challenge, only an opportunity to find an effective solution to support the growth of mission-driven organizations.

Position Responsibilities
As an Associate, Business Development, you will report directly to the Manager of Business Development. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Support the business development process, including supporting the creation of new business strategies, lead generation plans, and managing communications with potential new clients.
• Manage business development systems (Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and other data systems) including data entry, management, and data integrity.
• Support the proposal management process including drafting responses to RFPs and RFQs, delivery of proposals, and attending pre-proposal conferences.
• Manage the entire business development research process: identify customer's needs, develop win themes, and produce complete proposals; assess the competitive landscape and track key market trends and developments
• Provide administrative support as well as excellent customer service and smooth communications
• Develop relationships with contract and procurement specialists at targeted organizations.
• Assisting the CEO and Manager with special projects as needed.

Qualifications

• We value your education experience. For this role, you must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree.
• We value your work experience. You must possess at least 2-3 years of business development experience with measurable results in the social impact, nonprofit, government or education sectors.
• We value your technical skills. Experience working with CRM and Google Applications (or similar products) is required.
• We value your soft skills. Strong attention to details, excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. 
• We value your commitment and dedication. A strong commitment to digging deep and finding a better way to support our mission-driven organization partners is required.

Compensation

• Compared to other organizations, our compensation rates are competitive with bonuses.
• Access to health care and 401(K) options for eligible employees.

Non-Discriminatory Statement
ATS+Partners does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin. We are an equal opportunity employer.