2 weeks ago
Senior Growth & Partnerships Consultant
YLabs
Indiana, PA (Remote)Part time$3K/mo – $5K/mo
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Senior Growth & Partnerships Consultant
Indiana, PA (Remote)
$3K/mo – $5K/moSenior Level8+ years expPart time
Posted 2 weeks ago
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Job Summary
Own the fundraising and strategic partnerships agenda across multi-country programs, building and closing high-value deals while aligning BD with YLabs’ strategic outcomes.
- Growth & Partnerships: Own the OKRs and ensure BD work ties to organizational strategy across diverse partnerships.
- Funding and proposals: Lead end-to-end funding opportunities, scoping, budgeting, funder engagement, and cross-functional negotiation.
- Stakeholder leadership: Manage key relationships in public settings and train teams to embed YLabs goals into all partnerships.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Set and drive organizational growth priorities and Growth & Partnerships OKRs, ensuring alignment between business development efforts and YLabs' strategic objectives.
- Proactively scope and advance strategic funding opportunities and partnerships, and lead the end-to-end development of high-priority proposals and RFPs, including scoping, budgeting, funder engagement, negotiation, and cross-functional coordination.
- Expertly manage a diverse portfolio of high-value stakeholder relationships and represent YLabs in public forums; champion and train others in integrating YLabs’ strategic goals into all partnership work.
- Develop and manage a fundraising pipeline targeting unrestricted funding and project-related grants, including targeted campaigns for high-net-worth individuals and institutional funders.
- Work closely with MarComms to align external messaging and donor engagement strategies, ensuring proposals, pitches, and partnership materials reflect a coherent organizational narrative across the funding pipeline.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience, including a demonstrable track record of leading and closing high-value business development opportunities at the $1M+ level
- Expert-level experience leading complex, multi-country proposals for institutional funders, foundations, foundation collectives, and government partners with minimal/no supervision required.
- Deep experience across the full business development cycle: opportunity origination, partner cultivation, scope and budget negotiation, proposal development, and post-award partnership management
- Demonstrated success in developing and leading BD teams, building pipeline management systems, and owning departmental-level playbooks and tools
- Experience working with funders and institutional partners in global health, adolescent development, economic empowerment, or adjacent funding sectors
- Expert written and verbal communication skills
- Strong commitment to equity, power-sharing, and decolonizing international development
Benefits
- Travel for in-person meetings and conferences is fully reimbursed by YLabs.
YLabs
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Youth Development Labs [YLabs] designs technologies that amplify youth power, agency, and opportunity.Founded in 2014 at the Harvard Innovation Lab, YLabs currently works in Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Central America designing programming to address the key challenges to young people's health and wellbeing, climate resilience, and economic opportunity.Our team of physicians, designers, economists, developers, public health professionals, and educators bring a unique mix of human-centered design, adolescent health, economic and health outcome evaluation, behavioral science and implementation know-how to the global problems facing youth.Don't hesitate to reach out to our team to find out more about our work, our methodology, or our plans for the future.
Founded in 2016
Kigali, Kigali City, RWA
48 employees (9 in marketing)
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