Senior Public Sector Education Partnerships Lead

EF Education First; Bogotá; Híbrido; COP 180.000.000 - 300.000.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Global experience program

Paid sabbaticals

Descripción de la vacante

Efekta, a leader in AI-powered learning technology, seeks an Education Partnerships Director to own complex public-sector deals end to end. You will manage 3–5 high-value pursuits, building long-lasting relationships that convert into strategic partnerships during 12–24 month sales cycles.

Success requires credibility in ministerial rooms, a sharp sense of where influence sits in government, and the drive to move deals toward signed contracts while coordinating product, academic, and legal teams.

Formación

• 8+ years closing complex, long-cycle, multi-year sales with governments, large public institutions, international-development organizations or comparable enterprises.
• Proven record of personally leading deals from first relationship through procurement, negotiation and signature.
• Genuine executive presence: able to engage Directors General, ministers and senior institutional leaders without relying on a script.
• Strong strategic account planning, stakeholder mapping, commercial negotiation and pursuit-management discipline.
• Demonstrated understanding of the education sector in the relevant country or region; autonomous, resilient and adaptable working style.
• Natural curiosity and commercial acumen with a commitment to continuously learning and adapting.

Responsabilidades

• 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 the formal decision-makers and the real 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, accuracy and a clear win strategy.
• Depth of executive sponsorship, procurement readiness and effectiveness of cross-functional orchestration.

Conocimientos

Executive presence

Government sales

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Strategic account planning

Descripción del empleo

Efekta, a leader in AI-powered learning technology, seeks an Education Partnerships Director to own complex public-sector deals end to end. You will manage 3–5 high-value pursuits, building long-lasting relationships that convert into strategic partnerships during 12–24 month sales cycles.

Success requires credibility in ministerial rooms, a sharp sense of where influence sits in government, and the drive to move deals toward signed contracts while coordinating product, academic, and legal teams.