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Join Educate as the Senior Development Manager and drive our ambitious fundraising goals while leading strategy, execution, and relationship management.
Overview
Salary
£0
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Expires
Organisation summary Educate started life as a publishing company, specialising in education publications, primarily for UCAS. Educate now represents some of the biggest global media brands in the student recruitment sector. Based in the UK, we've been working with over 85% of UK institutions for the last 16 years, helping them recruit students for their courses using a variety of advertising solutions. We now work with institutions throughout Europe, in France, Italy, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and Sweden to help recruit students globally. To ensure we always able to offer the best solutions for our clients, our portfolio ranges from print to digital to mobile and social media. We build bespoke campaigns to recruit students at all levels, for all courses from international MBAs to specialist undergraduate courses. Most importantly we provide our clients with quantifiable and results-focused campaigns. We are the only company to use BBC.com to target international audiences for UK universities, European business schools and MBA programmes. That's an audience of 58mn unique users globally. Brands we represent BBC.com | Facebook | ACCA | Google | Twitter | WSJ | LinkedIn Our media Edunamic | Edumobile
Role Summary
- The Senior Development Manager plays a key role in Educate!'s revenue team.
- Lead external engagements with funders and develop compelling proposals.
- Ensure seamless coordination across teams.
- Take increasing ownership of a growing portfolio of philanthropic funders.
- Focus on strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
- Build proposals, coordinate funder visits, and manage complex workstreams.
- Grow into a leadership position over time.
Role Requirements
- Capability in both strategy and execution.
- Energized by both strategic and execution tasks.
- Clear understanding of growth journey towards Head level.
- Demonstrated leadership potential.
The Senior Development Manager is a key role on Educate!'s revenue team, sitting at the intersection of strategy, execution, and relationship management. This person will play a critical role in driving our ambitious fundraising goals - leading external engagements with funders, developing compelling proposals, and ensuring seamless coordination across teams, while taking on increasing ownership of a growing portfolio of philanthropic funders. This role demands both strategic thinking and hands-on execution. In the near term, the balance leans toward execution: building proposals, coordinating funder visits, and keeping complex workstreams moving. Over time, as you develop your portfolio and demonstrate ownership, the balance shifts toward strategy and leadership. We're looking for someone who is energized by both, and clear-eyed about what that journey looks like. This role sits one step below Head level on our development team, and we expect the right candidate to grow into that position as they build impact and demonstrate ownership.
