Senior Director of Multilateral Partnerships

Summary

Join Teach For All as a Senior Director of Multilateral Partnerships and significantly contribute to expanding support for our network partners and the global organization's growth. You will build and cultivate strategic relationships with multilateral organizations like the UN and World Bank, identifying funding opportunities and developing action plans. This role involves providing strategic thought partnership to partners, designing external engagement strategies, and building the capacity of regional teams. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in strategic partnerships, resource mobilization within civil society, and a deep understanding of the public sector. The position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to make a global impact on education.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years related experience working in civil society organizations in charge of strategic partnerships and resource mobilization
• Deep knowledge of the public sector and multilateral stakeholders, ideally having worked with/for some of them
• Strong relationship building skills and the ability to cultivate long-term donors, prospects and champions of our work
• Extensive experience of counseling Teach For All partners and prospect partners in strengthening their external engagement at local, national and international levels, or evidence of similar external experience
• English fluency required
• Strong external presence and comfortable representing the organization externally
• Ability to thrive in a high-energy, fast-paced and entrepreneurial organization as part of a collaborative and committed team
• Ability to manage a high volume workload at a fast pace with strong attention to detail and a high bar for quality
• Ability to multitask, manage concurrent timelines, independently prioritize tasks and work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, dynamic start-up environment
• Solutions-oriented and entrepreneurial mindset with proactive and empowered approach to problem solving and executing one’s responsibilities
• Strong critical thinking and interpersonal communication skills
• Sensitivity to diversity in backgrounds and beliefs (e.g., racial, cultural, socioeconomic, political)
• Deeply committed to the mission, vision and values of Teach For All

Responsibilities

• Build and develop strategic relationships in the ML space (30%)
• Cultivate and steward current and multilateral stakeholders by representing the global organization and network externally at the global level
• Identify strategic relationships with ML donors to advance our network’s priorities
• Deepen the understanding and appreciation of Teach For All’s core approach and mission among a growing group of diverse multilateral prospects and funders
• Identify ML opportunities for the network across continents (30%)
• Identify and develop strategies and action plans to generate strategic partnerships and funding opportunities with MLs that contribute to the long-term fundraising goals of the global organization and its partners/ prospective partners across the globe
• Conceptualize and draft value propositions for external donors, prospects and champions that are grounded in our core mission
• Support the design and operationalization of multilateral partnerships, involving multiple partners, financial elements, coordination across teams, etc
• Lead the development of partners and prospective partners’ understanding of ML stakeholders, the global education ecosystem and the design of external strategies to engage allies
• In collaboration with Network Engagement leads, become the principal thought partner for partners/ prospective partners in engaging with ML stakeholders, providing 1:1 and group consultation on long-term fundraising and partnerships
• Design and execute trips to support partners/prospective partners on their external engagements and fundraising efforts from MLs
• Build the capacity of regional teams, and initiative leads to maximize external opportunities for partners and prospective partners in the ML field
• Develop insights, knowledge products, and workshop sessions regarding the ML space

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior international work experience
• Fluency in other languages

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Travel is possible when it is safe to do so and in accordance with local travel guidelines
• Given that we work across different time zones, some non-traditional hours for early or later calls are an expectation of this role