Partnerships Service Lead
Development Wala is hiring Partnerships Service Lead in Mumbai, India
About this job
About Ennoble
At Ennoble, we are transforming education by building programs and partnerships that expand access to meaningful, future-ready learning opportunities. We work with institutions, universities, communities, and
ecosystem partners to create scalable pathways for students and young people. If you are passionate about building strategic relationships and converting partnerships into measurable impact, you will find purpose and growth at Ennoble.
Role Summary
The Partnerships Lead will build and scale Ennoble’s institutional partnership ecosystem to drive program distribution, qualified lead generation, enrollments, and long-term organisational credibility. The role owns the complete partnership lifecycle—from prospecting and outreach to agreement closure, partner activation, campaign execution, and performance tracking. The successful candidate will establish a predictable partnership engine that produces measurable business and program outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify, map, and build a strong pipeline of universities, student organisations, incubators, communities, and ecosystem partners.
- Conduct structured outreach, schedule qualified meetings, and present Ennoble’s programs and partnership propositions.
- Design and negotiate mutually beneficial partnership models aligned with program, enrollment, and revenue objectives.
- Close partnership agreements and manage partner onboarding, activation, and engagement.
- Plan and execute partner-led campaigns, webinars, events, promotions, and student outreach initiatives.
- Coordinate with marketing and sales teams to convert partner-generated interest into qualified leads and enrollments.
- Maintain regular communication with partners and resolve operational or relationship issues promptly.
- Track the complete partnership pipeline and partner performance through CRM systems, dashboards, and structured reports.
- Analyse lead generation, enrollment, activation, and revenue outcomes to improve partnership productivity.
- Represent Ennoble professionally in external meetings, institutional forums, and ecosystem events.
Mandatory Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Management, Education, Communications, or a related field.
- 3–7 years of relevant experience in institutional partnerships, business development, university relations,ecosystem development, or strategic alliances.
- Demonstrated ability to prospect, pitch, negotiate, and close institutional partnerships.
- Strong verbal and written communication, presentation, networking, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Comfort with structured outreach, follow-ups, target-driven work, and external relationship building.
- Ability to coordinate cross-functionally with marketing, sales, programs, and leadership teams.
- Strong planning, ownership, problem-solving, and execution discipline.
- Working knowledge of CRM systems, Google Workspace or MS Office, and partnership pipeline reporting.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills
- Experience in EdTech, skill development, higher education, startup ecosystems, youth programs, or community-led organisations.
- Existing network across universities, colleges, incubators, student communities, or institutional ecosystems.
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About the organisation

Development Wala
VerifiedBuilding a More Connected Development Ecosystem
Development Wala brings together people, organisations, opportunities, knowledge and conversations from across the social and development sector. We work with organisations to strengthen their people and systems, while building platforms that help development professionals discover opportunities, connect with others and engage with the ideas shaping social and economic change.
Three ways we help mission-driven organisations build greater impact.
A specialised partner to India’s NGOs, social enterprises, foundations, CSR teams and development institutions — across recruitment, impact documentation, and organisational capacity building.
Service Dossier — Contents
Recruitment & Talent Sourcing
M&E, Research & Impact Documentation
Capacity Building
Explore our services: https://developmentwala.com/services/
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