Partnerships & Grants Lead

A strategic growth role focused on building, nurturing, and activating partnerships that create opportunities for the company. You will manage existing partnerships, develop new alliances, maintain stakeholder relationships, identify grant opportunities, and ensure partnerships evolve into sustainable channels for business, visibility, influence, and impact.

Responsibilities

• Partnership Portfolio Management: Manage and strengthen existing partnerships across corporate, institutional, professional, and private sectors; develop engagement plans; maintain regular communication; reactivate dormant partnerships; ensure partnerships remain active and mutually beneficial
• Strategic Alliance Development: Identify and establish new partnerships with corporate organizations, financial institutions, pension administrators, educational institutions, strategic individuals and influencers; position the company as a preferred business advisory, training, consulting, and workforce development partner
• Grants & Resource Mobilisation: Identify and assess grant, funding, and resource mobilization opportunities; coordinate grant applications, concept notes, and funding proposals; develop funding pipelines; build relationships with grant-making organizations
• Partnership Activation & Opportunity Development: Convert partnerships into collaborative opportunities; initiate partnership-driven proposals and programmes; coordinate partnership meetings and strategic discussions
• Ecosystem Intelligence: Map relevant sectors, industries, and institutions; monitor partnership trends; maintain partnership and stakeholder database; provide intelligence supporting organizational growth

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years' experience in partnerships, institutional relations, strategic engagement, grants management, resource mobilisation, business development, or related field
• Demonstrated experience building and managing strategic partnerships
• Experience working within consulting firms, development organizations, workforce development organizations, learning institutions, NGOs, INGOs, professional service firms, or corporate engagement environments
• Strong proposal development and stakeholder engagement experience
• Bachelor's degree minimum
• Fluent in English

Key Qualities

• Build relationships naturally and strategically
• Highly proactive and opportunity-oriented
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to independently manage multiple relationships and opportunities
• Strategic, long-term thinker
• Maintains momentum in stakeholder engagements

Success Metrics

• Number of active partnerships managed
• Strategic partnerships established
• Partnership opportunities activated
• Grant opportunities identified and submitted
• Stakeholder engagement effectiveness
• Partnership-generated opportunities
• Growth and expansion of partnership ecosystem

Salary

NGN 250,000 – 350,000 per month

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