This is a remote position. Compensation for this position will be determined by the prevailing market rate in the employee's country in addition to Ipas's own pay philosophy and other factors, such as the employee's experience level and expertise. Candidates can expect traveling up to 30% time.
The successful candidate must be based geographically in Asia.
Ipas seeks a Strategic Partnership Manager to strengthen resource mobilization and the partnership portfolio across Asia. The manager will identify, cultivate, and expand a pipeline of institutional donors, foundations, corporate partners, and strategic collaborators whose priorities align with Ipas's mission and values.
The role will provide targeted business development support for high-value funding opportunities, deepen engagement with priority donors and partners, and contribute to donor-facing materials, including expressions of interest, concept notes, proposals, budgets, presentations, results frameworks, and partnership strategies.
The Strategic Partnership Manager will demonstrate a strong commitment to reproductive justice, including human rights, abortion rights, gender equity, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The role will work with the Development Service Node, Fundraising Leads, Asia Country Directors, and colleagues across the Ipas Network to promote shared leadership, trust, and inclusive, non-hierarchical collaboration.
Primary Responsibilities:
1. Opportunity Pipeline Development and Donor/Partner Intelligence
- Map priority foundations, institutional funders, corporate partners, and strategic implementing partners aligned with Ipas's mission and work.
- Analyze funder priorities, eligibility, timelines, typical award size, indirect cost expectations, compliance considerations, and relationship pathways.
- Identify and track RFPs, calls for proposals, invitations, and relationship-led opportunities, and maintain an up-to-date pipeline tracker.
- Support go/no-go decisions through fit assessments, competitiveness analysis, and risk and feasibility review.
2. External Relations and Resource Mobilization Support
- Develop donor and partner engagement plans for priority prospects, including objectives, messages, decision-makers, and follow-up actions.
- Draft and refine capability statements, one-pagers, brief slide decks, project summaries, and boilerplate language.
- Develop a External relations for Asia in coordination with Country nodes and the network
- Build Ipas Network intelligence on key trends and opportunities in Asia.
- Contribute to external communications through the Ipas website, newsletters, and social media.
- Prepare talking points, briefing notes, and agendas for external meetings and support follow-up.
- Advice on partnership strategy, consortium roles, negotiation points, partner mapping, and outreach.
- Report quarterly and annually on fundraising efforts and results and participate in annual management cycle activities.
3. Proposal Development, Review, and Quality Assurance
- Support expressions of interest, concept notes, and full proposals in coordination with internal teams and partners.
- Develop and review technical narratives for compliance, clarity, and responsiveness to donor evaluation criteria.
- Support results frameworks or log frames, workplans, MEL plans, risk matrices, and staffing plans.
- Coordinate with finance counterparts to develop and quality-check budgets and budget narratives.
- Provide structured written feedback and participate in review meetings to agree on revisions and next steps.
Minimum Requirements:
- Ten or more years’ work experience managing programs and projects with increasing complexity and responsibility
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- Demonstrated experience in business development, fundraising, and/or proposal development for NGOs, social enterprises, or mission-driven organizations.
- Strong understanding of institutional donor environments and partnership or consortium approaches.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and French.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines, coordinate across teams, and deliver high-quality products with minimal supervision.
- Proven record of developing competitive proposals and donor-facing products, including complex budgets and results frameworks or log frames.
- Subject-matter expertise in sexual and reproductive health and rights and reproductive justice, and/or international experience.
- Deep commitment to reproductive justice, human rights, abortion rights, gender equity, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Travel and work environment:
- Regular travel within Asia and to strategic hubs, in accordance with Ipas travel policies.
- Virtual collaboration with colleagues across the Ipas Network and across time zones.
- Weekly written progress updates and biweekly virtual check-ins with the Director of Development and relevant staff.
- Deliverables submitted electronically in editable formats, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, unless otherwise agreed.
Ipas is strongly committed to providing a work environment that is free from all forms of harassment, discrimination, and inequity. We recruit, employ, train, promote, and compensate our personnel without regard to race, age, sex, religion, national origin, color, creed, ancestry, citizenship, caste, ethnicity, regional identity, tribal identity, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, gender identity, transgender status, sexual orientation, or any other personal characteristic protected by law or outlined by Ipas policy. Ipas acknowledges that these personal characteristics may differ in different contexts.
