Educate!
SeniorDevelopmentManager
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“Senior Development Manager at Educate!. Skills: Revenue generation, Relationship management, Proposal development. Serve as relationship manager. Build long-term partnerships”
What You'll Achieve.
Reach $100M in revenue by 2035
Industry & Context.
Strategic thinking; Hands-on execution
Travel to East Africa, Certificate of Good Conduct
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
500,000 youth impacted, 300+ staff, 300+ volunteer mentors
Nice to Have
Meet every requirement
What You'll Do.
Serve as relationship manager
Build long-term partnerships
Take on ownership of portfolio
Manage revenue targets
Understand funder priorities
Identify alignment opportunities
Represent Educate! professionally
Develop new funder relationships
Contribute to team strategy
Lead proposal development
Edit external communications
Synthesize programmatic information
Collaborate with program teams
Manage proposal timelines
Coordinate funder visits
Prepare internal teams
Lead post-visit follow-up
Improve visit quality
Develop reusable materials
Support Director of Philanthropy
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Program teams; Leadership teams; Revenue team
Communication Scope
External communications; Funder-ready narratives; Clear talking points
Process & Methodology
Timeline management, Process management
Full Job Description
Who We Are! 🌍 Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Educate! we're obsessed with impact. We leverage iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent. Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn and thrive in today’s economy by: Introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary and Delivering livelihood boot camps for out-of-school youth, with a focus on marginalized rural girls and young women. To date, more than 500,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania, and along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa. Educate! is a team of over 300 largely African staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. We prioritize building an engaging, fulfilling and growth oriented work environment. 50% of our top 30 leaders have been with us for over 5 years, 10+ alumni have started their own organizations, and 6 current or former team members were Acumen Fund East Africa fellows. We have been backed by top foundations such as Imaginable Futures, Livelihood Impact Fund, Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall, CIFF and Echidna Giving. Educate! won a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and a 2015 WISE Award, and has been highlighted by the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, BBC, The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies on scaling education, and the Gates Foundation as a Goalkeepers Accelerator. In 2022, we received a catalytic investment from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott to scale our systems change work. Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year. Good to note: To Our Awesome Applicants! 🚀💫 We know that incredible candidates someti
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