BD Associate – Partnerships & Advocacy

🔥 19 hours ago

🇬🇭 Ghana – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

💰 Account Manager

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Generation

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

Generation is a mission driven non-profit focused on training the next generation of diverse leaders in the progressive, civic, and social impact data community. They offer a variety of online and in-person training programs tailored to equip students with essential skills in data visualization, data engineering, and progressive data analysis. Their initiatives aim to empower individuals from marginalized communities and enhance their capabilities to impact democratic processes and social movements through data literacy.

📋 Description

• Identify, develop, and manage strategic relationships with employers, aggregators, industry associations, government institutions, ecosystem actors, and workforce development stakeholders • Build and maintain a diversified partnership pipeline supporting placement, programme, and growth objectives • Develop partnership engagement plans and maintain communication with strategic stakeholders • Identify opportunities for collaboration, co-delivery, referrals, sponsorship, and ecosystem partnerships • Support partnership agreements and engagement frameworks • Maintain accurate partnership records in Salesforce and other designated systems • Engage employers to understand hiring needs, workforce challenges, and sector-specific demand trends • Facilitate employer participation in graduate engagement activities, networking events, mock interviews, employer panels, workshops, and programme initiatives • Develop employer advocacy initiatives promoting graduate success stories and positive employer experiences • Gather employer feedback and insights to improve programmes and graduate employability outcomes • Build relationships across employment, technology, education, entrepreneurship, and workforce development ecosystems • Represent Generation Ghana at industry events, conferences, networking sessions, ecosystem engagements, and stakeholder forums • Coordinate stakeholder engagement activities and initiatives with coalition partners, programme partners, and strategic ecosystem stakeholders • Support employer engagement campaigns, employer-focused events, industry roundtables, networking forums, employer showcases, and ecosystem activities • Contribute to employer-facing presentations, partnership decks, case studies, success stories, impact reports, and marketing collateral • Monitor labour market trends, industry developments, hiring patterns, and workforce needs • Conduct stakeholder and sector mapping to identify partnership and employment opportunities • Gather and analyse market intelligence informing employer engagement, programme expansion, and curriculum reviews • Share employer and industry insights with programme delivery, placement, and leadership teams • Support engagement across Permanent and Freelance programmes, partner onboarding, programme launches, and cross-functional projects • Track and report partnership performance, employer engagement, stakeholder outcomes, and ecosystem initiatives • Prepare periodic reports, presentations, and insights for Employer Engagement planning and decision-making • Undertake other duties assigned by the Employer Engagement Manager

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years' professional experience in business development, partnerships, stakeholder engagement, account management, B2B sales, client relationship management, advocacy, ecosystem development, consulting, or a related field • Demonstrated experience in B2B sales or business development within a consulting, professional services, training, workforce development, technology, or advisory environment • Proven track record of developing, managing, and growing external stakeholder relationships that contribute to business growth, partnership outcomes, or organizational impact • Experience engaging with employers, aggregators, industry associations, government agencies, donor-funded programmes, ecosystem actors, or strategic partners • Experience working in high-pressure, agile, and fast-paced environments, balancing multiple priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines simultaneously • Minimum of 1 year of experience working remotely in an Associate, Coordinator, Account Management, Business Development, Customer Success, Partnerships, or equivalent role • Experience planning and coordinating events, networking sessions, stakeholder forums, employer engagement activities, or ecosystem-building initiatives • Experience in workforce development, education, youth employment, technology, entrepreneurship, training, consulting, recruitment, or social impact sectors is highly desirable • Experience managing stakeholder pipelines, CRM systems, reporting tools, or relationship management platforms • A university degree is not required; equivalent professional experience, demonstrated performance, and relevant achievements will be given equal consideration • Strong understanding of B2B business development, stakeholder engagement, account management, and relationship-building principles • Strong commercial awareness and ability to understand employer needs, workforce challenges, and market dynamics • Ability to leverage data to influence decision-making and build credibility across stakeholder groups • Exceptional relationship-building, networking, negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management capabilities • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Strong presentation, facilitation, storytelling, and advocacy skills • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365, including Teams, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, and Forms • Strong working knowledge of Google Workspace, including Docs, Sheets, Drive, Meet, Slides, and collaborative work tools • Demonstrated experience using AI tools and platforms for productivity, research, stakeholder engagement, business development, communication, analysis, content generation, or workflow management • Comfortable learning and adopting emerging technologies and digital collaboration tools • Experience using Salesforce or other CRM platforms is highly desirable • Strong analytical, critical-thinking, organizational, project coordination, and problem-solving skills • Ability to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and stakeholder needs • Ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing priorities effectively • Highly self-motivated, adaptable, resilient, collaborative, accountable, and comfortable working independently • Comfortable working across countries, cultures, teams, and stakeholder groups • Passion for employment, skills development, workforce readiness, and creating opportunities for young people

🏖️ Benefits

• Fixed-term contract for 6 months • Remote work arrangement • Opportunity to contribute to a global nonprofit organization focused on employment and economic mobility • Exposure to strategic partnerships, employer engagement, advocacy, ecosystem development, and workforce development • Collaboration across countries, cultures, teams, and stakeholder groups • Professional experience with Generation Ghana's Permanent and Freelance programmes