Partnerships Manager
2025-05-12T09:30:31+00:00
Power Learn Project
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FULL_TIME
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Nonprofit, and NGO
Management
2025-05-26T17:00:00+00:00
Kenya
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About The Job
The Partnerships Manager will lead the strategy and execution of PLP's resource mobilisation and organisational sustainability efforts. The role will be a critical bridge between PLP and its funding, donor, and strategic ecosystem partners. The primary focus is fundraising for programmatic work while supporting broader business development and partnership efforts across departments. The ideal candidate will be both a relationship-builder and an opportunity seeker, someone who can identify, secure, and sustain funding while positioning PLP as a thought leader and impactful partner within the tech education and youth employment space.
Key Responsibilities
1. Fundraising & Resource Mobilization
- Develop and implement a resource mobilisation strategy targeting grant-making organisations, foundations, development agencies, and philanthropic institutions.
- Lead the end-to-end proposal development process: opportunity scouting, concept note drafting, partnership positioning, grant writing, and submission.
- Maintain a robust pipeline of prospective funders and reporting obligations for active grants.
2. Strategic Partnerships Management
- Build and sustain strategic relationships with key funders and ecosystem actors.
- Represent PLP in donor and partner engagements, ensuring alignment between funder priorities and PLP programmatic goals.
- Ensure timely reporting, stewardship, and relationship cultivation with all external funders.
- Maintain a comprehensive, multi-country partnership tracker to manage, follow through, and convert partnership conversations into funding and strategic support across all PLP program countries.
- The Partnerships Manager shall proactively steward relationships from initial introduction to funding closure, ensuring timely follow-through, sustained engagement, and conversion of opportunities into secured financial support.
3. Business Development Support
- Identify opportunities for revenue generation through PLP’s products and services (e.g., advanced courses, corporate training, tech talent placement).
- Collaborate with program leads to position offerings for potential clients and partners.
- Support pitch development, service pricing, and partnership proposals.
4. Cross-Departmental Partnership Support
- Serve as the central point of coordination for partnership-related efforts across Outreach, Academy, Executive Director’s Office, Talent Hub, and Community teams.
- Collaborate with departmental leads to identify partnership needs, co-develop engagement strategies, and design value-aligned proposals.
- Actively support teams in initiating, nurturing, and closing partnerships with corporates, funders, government, and ecosystem actors relevant to their focus areas.
- Represent PLP in meetings, events, and forums that align with the strategic goals of these departments, ensuring consistent messaging and value delivery.
- Facilitate alignment between partner interests and internal program needs, ensuring strong internal coordination and follow-through.
- Track, document, and report on partnership pipelines and outcomes for each department, contributing to organisation-wide visibility and strategic planning.
- Provide capacity-building and advisory support to internal teams on best practices for partner engagement, proposal development, and relationship management.
5. Organisational Positioning & Visibility
- Work closely with the Communications & PR team to ensure PLP’s leadership is present in the right platforms: key industry events, panels, forums, and member organisations.
- Track and map influence-building opportunities for senior management.
- Draft strategic briefing notes, talking points, and speaker profiles as needed.
6. Market Research & Ecosystem Insights
- Lead ongoing research on trends in tech talent development, digital skills, youth employment, and related ecosystems across Africa.
- Track and analyze market data, policy shifts, and sector best practices to inform PLP’s strategy, fundraising priorities, and program design.
- Conduct benchmarking of global social enterprise models, funding approaches, and sector innovations to guide PLP’s growth and positioning.
- Prepare insight briefs and presentations for the Executive Director and leadership team to support decision-making and external engagement.
- Provide actionable recommendations on partnership opportunities, funding trends, and ecosystem gaps relevant to PLP’s mission and impact goals.
Preferred Qualifications & Competencies
- Proven track record in fundraising, grant writing, and donor relationship management.
- Experience in nonprofit or impact-focused business development.
- Strong communication and proposal writing skills.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and drive collaborative initiatives.
- Familiarity with the tech education, youth employment, or social enterprise sectors is a plus.
What success in this role looks like
- Growth in successful grant applications and renewals.
- Sustained relationships with new and existing partners.
- Increased revenue from PLP products and initiatives.
- Documented support to cross-departmental partnership initiatives.
- PLP representation in strategic industry events and networks.
- Clear reporting and tracking of partnership engagements and fundraising pipeline.
1. Fundraising & Resource Mobilization Develop and implement a resource mobilisation strategy targeting grant-making organisations, foundations, development agencies, and philanthropic institutions. Lead the end-to-end proposal development process: opportunity scouting, concept note drafting, partnership positioning, grant writing, and submission. Maintain a robust pipeline of prospective funders and reporting obligations for active grants. 2. Strategic Partnerships Management Build and sustain strategic relationships with key funders and ecosystem actors. Represent PLP in donor and partner engagements, ensuring alignment between funder priorities and PLP programmatic goals. Ensure timely reporting, stewardship, and relationship cultivation with all external funders. Maintain a comprehensive, multi-country partnership tracker to manage, follow through, and convert partnership conversations into funding and strategic support across all PLP program countries. The Partnerships Manager shall proactively steward relationships from initial introduction to funding closure, ensuring timely follow-through, sustained engagement, and conversion of opportunities into secured financial support. 3. Business Development Support Identify opportunities for revenue generation through PLP’s products and services (e.g., advanced courses, corporate training, tech talent placement). Collaborate with program leads to position offerings for potential clients and partners. Support pitch development, service pricing, and partnership proposals. 4. Cross-Departmental Partnership Support Serve as the central point of coordination for partnership-related efforts across Outreach, Academy, Executive Director’s Office, Talent Hub, and Community teams. Collaborate with departmental leads to identify partnership needs, co-develop engagement strategies, and design value-aligned proposals. Actively support teams in initiating, nurturing, and closing partnerships with corporates, funders, government, and ecosystem actors relevant to their focus areas. Represent PLP in meetings, events, and forums that align with the strategic goals of these departments, ensuring consistent messaging and value delivery. Facilitate alignment between partner interests and internal program needs, ensuring strong internal coordination and follow-through. Track, document, and report on partnership pipelines and outcomes for each department, contributing to organisation-wide visibility and strategic planning. Provide capacity-building and advisory support to internal teams on best practices for partner engagement, proposal development, and relationship management. 5. Organisational Positioning & Visibility Work closely with the Communications & PR team to ensure PLP’s leadership is present in the right platforms: key industry events, panels, forums, and member organisations. Track and map influence-building opportunities for senior management. Draft strategic briefing notes, talking points, and speaker profiles as needed. 6. Market Research & Ecosystem Insights Lead ongoing research on trends in tech talent development, digital skills, youth employment, and related ecosystems across Africa. Track and analyze market data, policy shifts, and sector best practices to inform PLP’s strategy, fundraising priorities, and program design. Conduct benchmarking of global social enterprise models, funding approaches, and sector innovations to guide PLP’s growth and positioning. Prepare insight briefs and presentations for the Executive Director and leadership team to support decision-making and external engagement. Provide actionable recommendations on partnership opportunities, funding trends, and ecosystem gaps relevant to PLP’s mission and impact goals.
Proven track record in fundraising, grant writing, and donor relationship management. Experience in nonprofit or impact-focused business development. Strong communication and proposal writing skills. Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and drive collaborative initiatives. Familiarity with the tech education, youth employment, or social enterprise sectors is a plus.
No Requirements
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Vacancy title:
Partnerships Manager
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Management]
Jobs at:
Power Learn Project
Deadline of this Job:
Monday, May 26 2025
Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi | Kenya
Summary
Date Posted: Monday, May 12 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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About The Job
The Partnerships Manager will lead the strategy and execution of PLP's resource mobilisation and organisational sustainability efforts. The role will be a critical bridge between PLP and its funding, donor, and strategic ecosystem partners. The primary focus is fundraising for programmatic work while supporting broader business development and partnership efforts across departments. The ideal candidate will be both a relationship-builder and an opportunity seeker, someone who can identify, secure, and sustain funding while positioning PLP as a thought leader and impactful partner within the tech education and youth employment space.
Key Responsibilities
1. Fundraising & Resource Mobilization
- Develop and implement a resource mobilisation strategy targeting grant-making organisations, foundations, development agencies, and philanthropic institutions.
- Lead the end-to-end proposal development process: opportunity scouting, concept note drafting, partnership positioning, grant writing, and submission.
- Maintain a robust pipeline of prospective funders and reporting obligations for active grants.
2. Strategic Partnerships Management
- Build and sustain strategic relationships with key funders and ecosystem actors.
- Represent PLP in donor and partner engagements, ensuring alignment between funder priorities and PLP programmatic goals.
- Ensure timely reporting, stewardship, and relationship cultivation with all external funders.
- Maintain a comprehensive, multi-country partnership tracker to manage, follow through, and convert partnership conversations into funding and strategic support across all PLP program countries.
- The Partnerships Manager shall proactively steward relationships from initial introduction to funding closure, ensuring timely follow-through, sustained engagement, and conversion of opportunities into secured financial support.
3. Business Development Support
- Identify opportunities for revenue generation through PLP’s products and services (e.g., advanced courses, corporate training, tech talent placement).
- Collaborate with program leads to position offerings for potential clients and partners.
- Support pitch development, service pricing, and partnership proposals.
4. Cross-Departmental Partnership Support
- Serve as the central point of coordination for partnership-related efforts across Outreach, Academy, Executive Director’s Office, Talent Hub, and Community teams.
- Collaborate with departmental leads to identify partnership needs, co-develop engagement strategies, and design value-aligned proposals.
- Actively support teams in initiating, nurturing, and closing partnerships with corporates, funders, government, and ecosystem actors relevant to their focus areas.
- Represent PLP in meetings, events, and forums that align with the strategic goals of these departments, ensuring consistent messaging and value delivery.
- Facilitate alignment between partner interests and internal program needs, ensuring strong internal coordination and follow-through.
- Track, document, and report on partnership pipelines and outcomes for each department, contributing to organisation-wide visibility and strategic planning.
- Provide capacity-building and advisory support to internal teams on best practices for partner engagement, proposal development, and relationship management.
5. Organisational Positioning & Visibility
- Work closely with the Communications & PR team to ensure PLP’s leadership is present in the right platforms: key industry events, panels, forums, and member organisations.
- Track and map influence-building opportunities for senior management.
- Draft strategic briefing notes, talking points, and speaker profiles as needed.
6. Market Research & Ecosystem Insights
- Lead ongoing research on trends in tech talent development, digital skills, youth employment, and related ecosystems across Africa.
- Track and analyze market data, policy shifts, and sector best practices to inform PLP’s strategy, fundraising priorities, and program design.
- Conduct benchmarking of global social enterprise models, funding approaches, and sector innovations to guide PLP’s growth and positioning.
- Prepare insight briefs and presentations for the Executive Director and leadership team to support decision-making and external engagement.
- Provide actionable recommendations on partnership opportunities, funding trends, and ecosystem gaps relevant to PLP’s mission and impact goals.
Preferred Qualifications & Competencies
- Proven track record in fundraising, grant writing, and donor relationship management.
- Experience in nonprofit or impact-focused business development.
- Strong communication and proposal writing skills.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and drive collaborative initiatives.
- Familiarity with the tech education, youth employment, or social enterprise sectors is a plus.
What success in this role looks like
- Growth in successful grant applications and renewals.
- Sustained relationships with new and existing partners.
- Increased revenue from PLP products and initiatives.
- Documented support to cross-departmental partnership initiatives.
- PLP representation in strategic industry events and networks.
- Clear reporting and tracking of partnership engagements and fundraising pipeline.
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Experience: No Requirements
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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