Public-Sector Education Partnerships Director

Education First; Bogotá; On-site; COP 90,000,000 - 170,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Experience Program

Competitive salary

Paid sabbaticals

Autonomy to shape sales strategy

Job summary

Efekta is seeking a Senior Education Partnerships Director to own complex public-sector deals end to end, managing 3–5 high-value pursuits across 12–24 month cycles. You will build lasting relationships with ministers, agencies, and international organizations to drive strategic education partnerships.

You’ll lead cross-functional teams through procurement, negotiation, and signature while maintaining momentum and credibility in government circles.

Qualifications

• 8+ years closing complex, long-cycle sales with governments or large public institutions.
• Proven record of leading deals from first relationship through procurement and signature.
• Strong executive presence in ministerial rooms and with senior institutional leaders.
• Deep understanding of education sector and government procurement processes.
• Curiosity and commercial acumen with a drive to learn and adapt.

Responsibilities

• Build senior relationships with ministries of education, public agencies and multilateral institutions; originate and qualify opportunities with real scale and strategic fit.
• Multi-thread every pursuit across political, technical, academic, procurement and financial stakeholders; identify decisionmakers and influencers.
• Orchestrate product, academic, implementation, finance, legal, government relations and bid teams into one coherent proposition.
• Lead business-case development, negotiation and executive engagement through to signature, sustaining momentum across long decision cycles.
• Navigate RFPs, tenders and multi-stage evaluations with discipline and a clear win strategy.
• Depth of executive sponsorship, procurement readiness and effectiveness of cross-functional orchestration.

Skills

Executive presence

Government sales

Strategic account planning

Stakeholder mapping

Negotiation

Procurement

Bid management

Job description

Efekta is seeking a Senior Education Partnerships Director to own complex public-sector deals end to end, managing 3–5 high-value pursuits across 12–24 month cycles. You will build lasting relationships with ministers, agencies, and international organizations to drive strategic education partnerships.

You’ll lead cross-functional teams through procurement, negotiation, and signature while maintaining momentum and credibility in government circles.