The Afro Renaissance Consortium (Afro RC) and US next-gen womxn founded and led organisation with a mission to understand, organise, and cultivate equitable global collaboration, kinship, and Black localised multilateral relations and networks firmly rooted in Africa.

Growing your career as a Full Time Partnerships and Stakeholder Specialist (fixed-term contract) is an awesome opportunity to develop excellent skills.

If you are strong in empathy, cooperation, storytelling and have the values for the position, then apply for the position of Stakeholder and Relationship Specialist (fixed-term contract) with Afro RC.  Afro RC seeks to foster a community of responsible, high impact entrepreneurs in order to achieve an equitable African Diaspora starting in South Africa.

We are searching for a dynamic individual to facilitate the establishment of resource partnerships and deepen organisation collaborations with key

stakeholders. The candidate will also provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, and resource mobilisation.  As well as will also serve as a focal point and resource for colleagues on specific thematic areas of strategic relevance for partnership development. The key result is to ensure greater resource mobilisation and influence ecosystem support for the Institute’s Incubators.

Objectives of Role

• Seek and promote new partnerships for resource mobilisation, working with Executives (CEO, Head of Finance and Head of Public Affairs), as per the AfroRC Stakeholders and resource mobilisation needs.
• Develop and maintain deep knowledge and familiarity with current and prospective partners, collaborators, and relevant stakeholders, contributing to a database of key contacts to Afro RC base of knowledge on partnerships and resource mobilisation.
• Assist in strategic and tactical operational plans to ensure achievement of partnerships goals.
• Acts as a focal point for identification and pursuit of opportunities for the Afro RC’s programmes and partnership objectives, including anticipating and responding to partner concerns and priorities, ensuring that the Afro RC’s interests, perspectives, and knowledge are taken into account in partnership discussions.
• Receive and screen inquiries from potential partners and facilitate communication with appropriate Executive.
• Provide strategic and logistical support to Executives in corporate engagement and interaction with identified partners.
• Develop and implements annual partnership engagement and resource mobilisation plan.
• Contribute to the development of new partnership and resource mobilisation practices and approaches by formulating recommendations for action based on on-going monitoring, analysing current trends within designated partners and formulating recommendations for strategy approaches and message development.
• Facilitate partnership agreements that meet organisational needs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by the supervisor to ensure the success of partnership efforts as needed

Experience and Qualifications

• Degree in Communications, Marketing, Business Administration or related field
• 3-5 years’ experience in external relations, liaison and/or resource-mobilisation related activities  Non-profit / corporate partnerships development
• Partnership, business development experience
• External stakeholder management
• Proposal development

Competencies

• Storytelling & Communications (verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills to effectively develop and maintain stakeholder relations).
• Strong project management skills with the ability to work under firm deadlines and within a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to prioritise and multitask to manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Formulating strategies and concepts
• Networking
• Comfortable working independently as well as part of a team in a collaborative environment.
• Educating, articulating, inspiring, and influencing
• Entrepreneurial thinking