Position Overview\n\nEducate!, is looking for a Head of Partnership Engagement to help us reach our goal of impacting millions of youth annually. As Head of Partnership Engagement, you will be a key member of the External Relations team that builds relationships with funders and other potential partners. While this job has a fundraising component, we are not looking for a traditional business development professional. Instead, we are looking for a collaborative, proactive professional who can both ensure that we are always able to keep our funding pipeline healthy and can represent Educate! in public.\n\nEducate!’s work today impacts youth across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. We are in a growth period in terms of budget and impact. The Head of Partnership Engagement, would work with the Global Director of Growth and Revenue to develop and implement strategies to expand our network of partners and secure funding for our programs and initiatives to ensure we provide avenues to continue to grow. The right person for this role will enjoy strategically and creatively navigating complex situations and building relationships to achieve impact goals. You’ll join a motivated, dynamic, and high-performing team committed to personal and professional development and impacting youth.\nAbout Educate! \n\nAfrica has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. \n\nAt 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. \n\nEducate! prepares youth in Africa learn, earn and thrive in today’s economy by: \n\n1) introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary, and \n\n2) delivering livelihood bootcamps for out-of-school youth, with a focus on marginalized rural girls and young women.\n\nTo date, more than 250,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya, and along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa.\n\nEducate! is a team of over 250 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. \n\nWe have been backed by top foundations such as Imaginable Futures, Big Bang Philanthropy,  #startsmall, Generation Unlimited, 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.\n\nEducate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year. By 2025, we aim to scale our annual reach by 4x and measurably impact over 400,000 new youth. \nPerformance Objectives\n\nRelationship Management\n\n\n* Manage Key relationships with both existing and potential funders. \n\n* Work within the Educate! Relationship management framework to both own independent relationships and drive forward key relationships owned by the CEO. \n\n* Learns and is accountable for the Educate way of relationship management, with a focus on:\n\n\n* Responsiveness: Always respond to any message or request within 24 hours (and ideally within 4-6 hours if it’s within business day) - even if just to say when you’ll have an update. Always confirm that you’re working on it for things that might take longer. \n\n* Proactive, frequent, and strategic communications: Generally, we want to have a personalized interaction of some type with all live relationships at least once a quarter. The time when someone receives your communication matters (best between 11 am Monday and 4 pm Thursday), use the “schedule to send” feature!\n\n* Strategic prep for meetings: We never go into our funder interactions cold, we always have a strategy and a good prep document. Every interaction meaningfully moves forward our relationship in a specific way.\n\n* Prompt follow up: After any interaction, follow up within 24 hours, and sooner if possible (ideally immediately).\n\n* Effective record-keeping: Take notes during or immediately after interactions, and make sure these notes are sent and stored in Salesforce (ideally within 24 hours). Hone in on what’s truly the most important to remember.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRepresenting Educate! Externally\n\n\n* Own relationships with important funders and payers; support the CEO in meetings and relationships with the highest-level staff\n\n* Speak on panels or at conferences about Educate!’s work.\n\n* Network and build relationships at conferences and events, with excellent follow-up that ensures movement into active relationships.\n\n* Identify new funding opportunities through calls for proposals and building a network of contacts at key funders.\n\n* Build a reputation as a thought partner and advisor to potential partners and relevant institutions.\n\n* Understand the inner workings of partner organizations and identify changes in strategy and new opportunities.\n\n\n\n\nOperationalize Agreements\n\n\n* Collaborate with internal teams to understand the requirements and expectations of funders.\n\n* Coordinate the implementation of agreements, ensuring compliance with funder requirements and internal policies.\n\n* Monitor and track progress against agreement milestones and deliverables.\n\n* Provide regular updates to funders on project status, including financial reporting and impact assessments.\n\n* Identify and address any issues or challenges that may arise during the implementation of agreements.\n\n* Support the development of funding proposals and reports to funder\n\n\n\nQualifications \n\n\n* A minimum of 5-7 years total work experience, with increasing responsibility and independence\n\n* Ability to develop and implement strategic partnership and fundraising plans that align with the organization's goals and objectives.\n\n* Relationship Building: Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including donors, partners, and colleagues.\n\n* Comfortable working with a remote team and partners\n\n* A well-honed sense of professional judgment, integrity, and accountability: You’ll be responsible for some of our most mission-critical workflows, a dynamic team, and some of our most valuable and sensitive relationships. \n\n\n\nWhat Is Educate! About? \n\nWe’re ambitious. Are you? Educate! is growing fast, so new opportunities are opening up and expanding all the time. We’re inspired by people with drive, and we love to help them reach their full potential. We expect everyone at Educate! to contribute above and beyond their job description, grow their skills, and advance their careers, and we are committed to supporting our staff members on that journey of their careers, and we are committed to supporting our staff members on that journey.\n\n* We put Youth First, Impact-Obsessed - We never forget that Educate! exists to impact youth. We are purpose-driven. We obsess over impact daily and if it doesn’t lead to impact, we want nothing to do with it. We prioritize interacting with and listening to youth. We design and manage the organization to ensure every dollar creates transformative experiences that youth value. \n\n* We Exceed Expectations - We take pride in going above and beyond to achieve the best results. When we know what needs to be done, we do it. We don’t wait to be asked and we don’t stop at what is asked of us. We look for solutions as much as we identify problems.\n\n* We Are Always Learning - We are committed to seeking and applying new knowledge and ideas. We stay open-minded. We know there is always another way and we are excited to learn about it. We continuously look for resources of all kinds from multiple disciplines. We try new things, experiment, grow, and improve. We invest in learning for ourselves and our teams.\n\n* We are One Team, Many Views - We say what we think while treating each other well. We believe that all people have the same inherent value and that diverse ideas and open dialogue fuel excellence. We constantly strive to create an environment where everyone can and does express themselves freely. We support and respect each other as people and colleagues. We act as one team: We prioritize the organization's mission and goals over team or individual goals.\n\n* We have the Startup Mindset - We will always keep innovating to grow our impact. We aspire to be game-changing. We never think “we have arrived” or “we’re done.” We question the status quo in our industry. We move fast and embrace change to move towards our long-term vision. We’re not afraid of failure. We interrogate anything that slows us down. \n\n\n\nEvery person at Educate! — from interns to the executive director — is evaluated by how they live up to these five cultural tenets. They are at the core of how we achieve our mission and why we work as well as we do. \n\nEducate is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all who interact in our community.  In creating this environment, we encourage people from a variety of cultures, backgrounds and life experiences to join our diverse team. \n\nChild Safeguarding: Educate! is committed to child-safe/youth-safe recruitment, selection and screening. Our recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to the safety and protection of children in our programs. The successful candidate will be required to provide a satisfactory Certificate of Good Conduct as a condition of employment. We reserve the right to decline to offer employment to an individual or terminate an employment contract with an employee that may pose a risk to children and youth. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design and Design jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

\nTerms \n\n\nTitle: VP of Sales\n\nSalary: $150-200K / year (avg range based on work location). \n\nCommission: 10-20% on newly signed deals (1st year of deal term only).\n\nEquity: 0.8-1.5% (≈ $8-15M in the case of a $1 billion exit). \n\nLocation: Remote (North America preferred).\n\nBenefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401k matching or similar, flexible PTO, sponsored transportation, gym, food, Apple devices, home office equipment, team retreats, and more.\n\n\n\nDescription\nYou will be contributing to an ambitious technological project that aims to become the leading wallet provider of the multi-trillion-dollar digital asset industry.  \nYou will join a stellar team of leaders (CEO, COO, CPO, Chief Scientist) and experts (Software Engineers, Offensive Security Engineers, Cryptographers, Protocol Designers) in a highly challenging and collaborative environment. We are seeking a seasoned, smart and over achieving VP of Sales with proven experience and a passion for selling innovative technology to senior executives and developers. You will be responsible for selling into new prospects as well as farming back into existing customers to ensure high renewal and customer satisfaction levels. The ideal candidate will have a background in the crypto industry and a proven track record of successful sales leadership in the tech industry. \nAs the VP of Sales, you will also be responsible for coaching, coordinating, leading and growing the sales team, as well as handling cross-team communication with marketing, product, tech, and other teams. You will sell complex scientific and technological products. You must have extensive knowledge of the products’ parts and functions, and you must understand the scientific processes that make these products work. The balance of your pitch depends on the level of technical knowledge and understanding you’ll need to sell the product and to answer client requests. Your target persona will usually be PMs and/or technical staff—engineers and CTOs—from the web3 scene and large financial institutions.\n\nResponsibilities \nYour primary goal will be to make record sales for the company every year. We expect you to strongly contribute to increased client acquisition rates, renewal rates, up-selling, cross-selling, customer satisfaction and overall sales team and business success. \nExample of a primary metric would be ARR.  \nYour day-to-day tasks will involve:  \n\n\nLead and coach the sales team to meet and exceed sales targets\n\nCollaborate with the executive team to establish sales targets and goals\n\nBuild and maintain relationships with key customers and stakeholders\n\nDevelop and implement sales strategies to increase revenue and market share\n\nDeeply understand why we win and why we lose deals and communicate findings back to the executive team\n\nStay hands-on with hunting, farming relationships, and actual selling\n\nMonitor and report on market trends, competition, and customer needs\n\nHandle cross-team communication with marketing, product, tech, and other teams\n\nStrategize around methods, processes, playbooks, pitches, and directions\n\nEnsure the sales team is meeting or exceeding sales targets\n\nPlan, prepare and execute on strategic deals in complex sales cycles. \n\nManaging all technical aspects of RFP / RFI responses.\n\nUnderstand client requirements and provide sales support. \n\nSuccessfully match customer pain/requirements to proposed solutions. \n\nEffectively communicating clients needs to product teams for roadmap enriching. \n\nSolicit and log client feedback to assess data and create new client-targeting strategies. \n\nPrepare cost estimates by studying client docs and consulting with other teams.\n\nCollect and document competitive intelligence. \n\nIdentify areas for improvement and communicate possible solutions to management. \n\nProvide training and produce support material for the sales team. \n\nMaster Salesforce and other lead generation and sales automation tools. \n\nSupport marketing by attending trade shows, conferences and other marketing events. \n\nMaintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, applying for coursework, and participating in professional fairs. \n\n\n\n\nRequirements  \n\n\n8+ years experience in sales, with a minimum of 3 years in sales leadership roles. \n\nProven success in growing ARR from $500k to $5M, from 30 to 100 clients and beyond.\n\nGreat business acumen (you ‘have it in you’) and love for the deal closing. \n\nAbility to forge strong, long-lasting relationships with senior executives and developers.\n\nAbility to creatively present complex concepts in an easy to understand manner. \n\nSolid technical understanding of blockchain, software and web technologies. \n\nExcellent social skills to build relationships with clients quickly. \n\nExcellent analytical and problem-solving skills. \n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills. \n\nExcellent presentation and negotiation skills.\n\nExcellent leadership and team working skills. \n\nExperience leading sales teams in a remote environment.\n\nComfortable with a fast-paced, startup environment.\n\nWillingness to travel as needed (post-pandemic).\n\n Proven work experience with developer tools and/or cybersecurity software.\n\n Proven work experience in blockchain and/or cybersecurity industries. \n\n Extensive knowledge about wallets, crypto custody and associated topics. \n\n Entrepreneurial experience, has already co-founded a startup.\n\n As many foreign languages as possible.\n\n\n\nProcess\n\n\nIntro call with COO (30mn).\n\nKnowledge and personality tests (async).\n\nFocus interview with hiring panel (90-120mn).\n\nFinal interview with hiring panel and CEO (60mn).\n\nSubmission for approval by the Board.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web3, Crypto, Salesforce, Senior, Marketing, Sales and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $90,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide