Remote Africa Strategic Partnerships Lead

Ipas; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Ipas seeks a Strategic Partnership Manager to strengthen resource mobilization and the partnership portfolio across Africa. The role identifies, cultivates, and expands a pipeline of institutional funders, foundations, corporate partners, and strategic collaborators aligned with Ipas's mission and values.

The manager will provide targeted business development support for high-value funding opportunities, deepen engagement with priority donors, and contribute to donor-facing materials and

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of work experience managing programs and projects with increasing complexity and responsibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Demonstrated experience in business development, fundraising, and/or proposal development for NGOs, social enterprises, or mission-driven organizations.
• Strong understanding of institutional donor environments, including bilateral and multilateral agencies, foundations, and partnership or consortium approaches.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and French.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines, coordinate across teams, and deliver high-quality products with minimal supervision.
• Proven record of developing competitive proposals and donor-facing products, including complex budgets and results frameworks or logframes.
• Subject-matter expertise in sexual and reproductive health and rights and reproductive justice, and/or experience working internationally.
• Deep commitment to reproductive justice, human rights, gender equity, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Commitment to shared leadership, trust, and inclusive, non-hierarchical ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Develop opportunity pipeline development and donor/partner intelligence maps priority foundations, institutional funders, corporate partners, and strategic implementing partners aligned with Ipas's mission and work.
• Draft and refine positioning materials, including capability statements, one-pagers, brief slide decks, project summaries, and boilerplate language.
• Provide external relations and resource mobilization support, including donor engagement plans and talking points for meetings.

Skills

Fundraising

Proposal development

Donor relations

Budgeting

Results frameworks

Bilingual English/French

Project management

Strategic partnerships

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Ipas seeks a Strategic Partnership Manager to strengthen resource mobilization and the partnership portfolio across Africa. The role identifies, cultivates, and expands a pipeline of institutional funders, foundations, corporate partners, and strategic collaborators aligned with Ipas's mission and values.

The manager will provide targeted business development support for high-value funding opportunities, deepen engagement with priority donors, and contribute to donor-facing materials and