Director - Partnerships at GVI

About the role

• We are looking for a Director of Partnerships who will drive GVI’s global success in business development. In this role, you will be responsible for creating new partnerships for GVI with Schools, Universities, Companies and Reseller Partners. The position requires excellent technical sales skills and a natural ability to maintain ongoing partnerships.

Role and responsibilities:

• Plan and execute outbound campaigns to win new partnerships
• Sell GVI programs to and through new partners, bringing on board all necessary decision-makers.
• Manage the ongoing relationship with partners, to ensure retention and maximum repeat revenue. 
• Coordinate with the Operational functions to ensure they are well placed to deliver the programs sold. 
• Level 2 emergency phone duties on a rotational schedule. 

About you

• If you are ambitious, purpose-driven, and you have a great sense of humour,  we want to meet you. As an organisation, we know that welcoming a broad range of people with unique identities makes us a more powerful workforce and we are committed to evolving our diversity, equity and inclusion practice.

Personal attributes:

• You are an exceptional salesperson who has a history of exceeding ambitious targets and who has the natural ability to build rapport with people from all over the world.  
• You have experience working in the education, travel and/or sustainable development sector and are excited to work with a global team of people passionate about making sustainable change. 

Professional skills and experience:

• 3+ years of outbound business development process experience 
• Exceptional technical sales skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Team leadership skills 
• Adaptability 
• The ability to operate effectively in a remote, global team environment