Strategic Partnerships Specialist

● Translate Australia BPO buyer requirements into actionable role and skill specifications to inform training pathways, assessments, and job-readiness standards.

● Work with research, monitoring, and evaluation; policy; and program teams to capture and document Australian market insights.

● Lead Australia-facing demand-side engagement to unlock outsourcing and technology-enabled service opportunities for Nigeria-based operators and program beneficiaries.

● Develop and execute an Australia market engagement strategy targeting priority BPO buyers, ecosystem conveners, and strategic partners.

● Build and maintain a structured Australia stakeholder CRM covering buyers, business networks, diplomatic stakeholders, and ecosystem actors.

● Manage an Australian buyer pipeline with clear stages, ownership, follow-up actions, and documented conversion notes.

● Design and coordinate Australia-focused convenings, including buyer roundtables, webinars, briefings, and knowledge-exchange sessions.

● Coordinate event logistics and follow-up in collaboration with partners and vendors, ensuring clear documentation and outcomes tracking.

● Facilitate operator–buyer matching processes in coordination with delivery partners and internal PMO teams.

● Prepare buyer-facing materials, including capability summaries, role profiles, and pilot scoping documentation.

● Support communications alignment by working with the Communications team to ensure Australia-facing collateral and announcements follow approvals and brand standards.

● Maintain audit-ready documentation for all Australia engagement activities, including contact logs, meeting notes, event records, and follow-up actions.

● Provide regular pipeline and market insight updates to leadership, highlighting risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.

● Bachelor’s degree in business, international relations, economics, communications, development studies, or a related field (a master's degree is an added advantage).

● Minimum of 5–7 years of experience in business development, partnerships, employer engagement, or market development, preferably within outsourcing, BPO, technology services, workforce development, or impact sourcing.

● Demonstrated experience convening stakeholders and managing structured engagement or sales pipelines.

● Strong documentation and reporting discipline with experience producing briefs, trackers, and stakeholder summaries.