Strategic Partnership Manager - Asia

Ipas • Chapel Hill, NC

3d • Remote

About The Position

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 provides targeted business development support for high-value funding opportunities, deepens engagement with priority donors and partners, and contributes to donor-facing materials such as expressions of interest, concept notes, proposals, budgets, presentations, results frameworks, and partnership strategies.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to reproductive justice, including human rights, abortion rights, gender equity, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The role works 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. The candidate must be geographically based in Asia. The position is remote and includes travel of up to 30% of the time.

The manager will map and assess funding and partnership opportunities, develop donor engagement plans and external-relations materials, support external communications and partner strategy, and contribute to fundraising reporting. The role also supports proposal development and quality assurance, including technical narratives, results frameworks, workplans, monitoring, evaluation and learning plans, risk and staffing plans, and budgets. Regular travel within Asia and to strategic hubs is required in accordance with Ipas travel policies. The position involves virtual collaboration across the Ipas Network and time zones, weekly written progress updates, and biweekly virtual check-ins with the Director of Development and relevant staff. Deliverables are submitted electronically in editable formats such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, unless otherwise agreed.

Requirements

• Ten or more years of 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.
• Must be geographically based in Asia.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 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.
• Advise 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.
• 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.
• Collaborate virtually with colleagues across the Ipas Network and time zones, provide weekly written progress updates, and participate in biweekly virtual check-ins with the Director of Development and relevant staff.
• Travel regularly within Asia and to strategic hubs in accordance with Ipas travel policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior