Summary

We are seeking a Telecommunications Partnerships Expert to join Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice. The candidate will actively seek out new partnership opportunities with the telecommunications industry, and grow our public-private partnership in the field of technology and innovation.

Your main responsibilities will be…

• Developing and managing across teams to deliver on key partnership objectives.
• Design and lead the execution of a strategy to engage with the telecommunications sector.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders from the telecommunications sector.
• Developing powerful communications about the impact made possible by partners’ contributions, and identifying opportunities to bring existing and new partners closer to Giga’s work.
• Manage the delivery of a data platform to be developed by Giga with other technology partners that allows internet service providers to report on their efforts in school connectivity.

To qualify for this position, you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in one of the following fields: public and/or private sector partnerships, communications, social sciences communication, public relations, business administration and management.
• *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in partnerships/project management, and a track record of organizing and managing partnerships, especially between the technology sector and development/non-profit organizations
• Knowledge of the telecommunications regulatory ecosystem, its actors, interactions between stakeholders, processes and trends.
• Exposure to fundraising and partnerships management in the United Nations is a huge plus
• Demonstrated planning, communication, fundraising and very strong writing and editing skills
• Ability to manage multiple perspectives and sets of priorities, driving toward consensus across several stakeholders
• Experience and strength in customer relationship management
• Capacity to prioritize and manage a diverse range of partners, projects and activities
• Must be a natural project manager – keeping resources and conversations organized a requirement
• Fluency in English. Competence in another UN language preferred.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.

About Our Team

We are a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, finance specialists, data scientists, policy experts, and much more. Our team is a distributed workforce and plans to remain distributed into the foreseeable future. We are growing fast. Our team has grown by over 400% in the last 6 months as we rapidly scale to meet our stated mission.