JOB DESCRIPTION
The Director of Partnerships & Institutional Relations will lead ADYH’s external relationship strategy and build an institutional ecosystem across corporations, funders, governments, international organizations, universities, diaspora organizations, speakers, and strategic collaborators.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop quarterly and annual partnership priorities.
• Identify priority institutions, sectors, regions, and relationship categories.
• Own the partnership pipeline, CRM/tracker, and stewardship system.
• Lead and develop the existing Partnership Liaison and future partnership team members.
• Oversee corporate, foundation, government, multilateral, university, diaspora, and community partnerships.
• Develop institutional outreach and follow-up systems.
• Guide speaker and expert outreach strategy.
• Develop partnership value propositions and collaboration concepts.
• Ensure relationships are followed through after meetings and events.
• Prepare the Founder for strategic meetings with briefs, goals, context, and recommended next steps.
• Identify opportunities for sponsorships, funding, skills partnerships, programming, and institutional collaboration.
IDEAL CANDIDATE
Someone with experience in partnerships, external affairs, business development, nonprofit development, government relations, institutional relations, or a related field who can independently build relationships and lead a team.
