Manager - Branding Partnerships & Sourcing - Education

Manager, Branding Partnerships & Sourcing

As the Manager, Branding Partnerships & Sourcing:

Strategy planning, operations and execution:

- Setting goals for the regions based on the organisation's ambition and past years' progress.

- Developing a regional strategy for branding, marketing, and partnerships to amplify organization's brand and attract exceptional people to consider the Fellowship

- Capturing and investigating data to monitor progress to goals, identify and analyse trends and make adaptations to strategy as necessary

- Creating structures, processes and visibility that enables effective execution, collaboration towards goals, and medium-term stability

- Managing the regional team budget by allocating resources efficiently and effectively, and defining the annual team calendar and action plan

Stakeholder relationship building:

- Building partnerships and maintaining relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across universities, corporates and youth clubs across the regions to grow our network, goodwill, brand and eventually have talent pipelines

- Building relationships with target Universities to ensure we successfully implement our campus engagement strategy by leveraging "Campus Leaders" and running early immersion programs

- Working alongside all other verticals in the following ways: Selection team to refine our selection processes and criteria, Communications team to develop a regional Communications strategy, Technology team to build the necessary platforms and tools to support the application process as well as enable data-collection, Development team to cross-sell Recruitment and Development, City Teams on regional collaborations, etc.

Overall contribution:

- Actively participate in all Recruitment Leadership Team initiatives including long term strategy planning, goal setting, resource allocation, problem-solving, national-level projects, team upskilling initiatives and resource sharing

- Lead pilot projects and innovations to upgrade approach and systems towards scale

- Team builder: Take ownership of team members' learning and growth by providing and seeking timely insights and feedback. Additionally, support other sub-verticals within the team with their efforts on an ongoing and need basis

As a People Manager:

- Leading and managing a large and diverse team of 4-5 individuals spread across cities

- Coaching, managing, empowering and building capacity for each person on the team to ambitious outcomes

- Building a strong collaborative team culture that is rooted in organization's culture that values relationships and results

- Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization

- Driving engagement, growth, and retention of team members

- Engineering and overseeing a monitoring and evaluation system, coupled with strategic direction, to guide our abilities to continuously improve

As a Coach:

- Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities

- Driving internal alignment and support for organization's core Programs

- Serving as an ambassador and an advocate for our work and for educational equity in our country through both internal and external communication after committing time in our classrooms to understand our work more deeply

- Supporting with key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building