Deputy Regional Director of Partnerships at Educate!

• The Deputy Regional Director of Partnerships will support Educate!'s external-facing work in Kenya, Tanzania and any other country as need arises. This role will manage key partnerships through directly representing the organization to key decision-makers at the Ministry of Education and its affiliated agencies across the region. The Deputy Regional Director of Partnerships will work hand-in-hand with the Group Strategist-Policy and Partnerships on the advocacy agenda as it relates to product strategy in order to successfully deliver on that agenda. The Deputy Regional Director of Partnerships reports to the Regional Director of Partnerships.
• Additionally, the Deputy Regional Director of Partnerships in collaboration with the Regional Director of Partnerships will play a meaningful role in setting long-term strategies for how Educate! drives system-level solutions across all countries of operation and finally, this role will strengthen the organization's overall brand by working with the Director of Communications on communication strategy, as well as represent the organization to partners and at conferences.\

Performance Objectives
Early markets (Kenya or Tanzania) Policy & Partnership Strategy & Culture (40%)

• In partnership with the Regional Director of Partnerships oversee strategic planning for early markets (currently Kenya or Tanzania) against 3-year strategy
• As a senior leader of the team, collaborate with other team leaders to communicate and promote organizational culture and values
• Proactively communicate advocacy successes and challenges, and communicate progress against OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) across the organization through leadership calls, retreats, and other forums as needed.
• Work with the Regional P&P senior leadership to ensure strategic alignment between country product, advocacy and market growth strategies
• Overseeing and progressing partnership and advocacy goals, including creation of co-design materials and use of Educate!'s government sales process (the "DQ process") to manage complex sales.

Regional Team Capacity Building 20%

• Coach and train other E! staff on E!'s government engagement strategy (our DQ and complex sales approach) and design activities and structures to promote our team's understanding of government policies
• Provide local insights to ensure teams in Kenya and Tanzania have effective DQ processes and progress through each step.
• Coach and manage ESS regional advocacy team members, as directed by the Regional Director of Partnerships
• Liaising with Group Strategist P&P to set standards and protocols for advocacy and partnerships work
• Work with the Regional Director of Partnerships to lead the development of documentation and systems to track partnership engagements, to enable high performing remote team collaboration for strategic relationship management

Expansion Strategy 20%

• Strategy: In collaboration with the Regional Director of Partnerships set a roadmap for expansion into new countries and deploy team and resources towards key milestones.
• Networks: Source leads and open up networks. Lead scoping initiatives and partnership building within countries of operation

Regional Stakeholder and Policy Mapping - 20%

• Stakeholder Mapping: Support ESS leadership teams map influencers and create plans to build champions and coalitions across ESS countries.
• External Representation: Represent the organization as and when required at conferences, events, and other network building opportunities.
• Policy Analysis: Analyze education policies from a variety of contexts to find opportunities to align product strategy with government interests.
• Funding opportunities: Engage with in-country payers around funding opportunities
• Pitch Materials: Help create Educate! partnership proposal materials in line with government priorities and E!'s technical standards and co-design approaches (pitch decks, concept notes, etc.)

Qualifications

• Experience in program development - either program, (user) experience or education design- or research & development for program development
• Knowledge and experience in designing and implementing behavioral change
• Understanding and application of human-centered or iterative design approaches
• Engaging and interactive communicator with a passion for coaching team members
• A strategic thinker, Collaborative, data-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!'s culture deck here