Chief Development Officer responsibilities include: Systematically detailing business development plans, design and implement processes to support business growth, through customer and market definition. Facilitate business growth by working together with clients. Build and maintain high-level contacts with current and prospective customer and other business and project partners. Drive prospects through to contract award (including identifying new customers and markets, developing approaches to the market, identifying prospects, proposal preparation. Develop marketing strategy, manage proposal teams and client account managers.