Partner, Partnerships Development
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TranscendK-12 education
Location: Flexible (Continental United States)Full-Time
Salary140,400 - 167,400 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementStakeholder managementRelationship management
Requirements
- Experience working in or alongside districts, CMOs, or education nonprofits.
- Strong understanding of K-12 ecosystems and the ability to navigate diverse stakeholder landscapes.
- Familiarity with the full partnership cycle, from discovery and scoping to contracting and sustained relationship management.
- Project management skills to coordinate work streams, details, logistics, and deadlines.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to craft proposals or scopes of work and lead partner conversations.
- Critical thinking and sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
- Willingness to travel approximately once a month (~20%).
- Commitment to Transcend’s mission of transforming education and a passion for designing learning experiences where all students thrive.
Responsibilities
- Cultivate and manage relationships with current and prospective partners across assigned Transcend portfolio teams.
- Build and nurture relationships across the K-12 education landscape to generate introductions and identify partnership opportunities.
- Lead cultivation calls and partner check-ins, and coordinate escalations for complex, high-stakes, or cross-portfolio partnerships.
- Represent Transcend at relevant convenings, conferences, and partner meetings, translating new relationships into actionable next steps.
- Draft scopes of work and pricing, coordinate approvals, and partner with Finance on contracting workflows.
- Manage the contracting cycle from initial draft through signature and handoff to project delivery teams.
- Track and report on pipeline and capacity progress, maintaining accurate CRM records.
- Coordinate with portfolio leads and internal stakeholders to align partner relationship plans and decisions.
- Surface portfolio insights and work with MarComms to capture partnership stories, case studies, and collateral.
- Contribute to improving the systems, routines, and templates that support the partnerships function.
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