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Senior Partnerships Officer (Education Sector, Africa) Prevail partners with ambitious organizations and governments in Africa and South Asia to help catalyze reforms that can transform millions of lives. As an Ecosystems Partnerships Officer, you will lead a portfolio of 2 to 4 government-facing foundational learning reform opportunities in Africa. Your job is to identify where Prevail can play a catalytic role, build the relationships needed to move opportunities forward, shape strong funding proposals, and support partners and governments to deliver results at scale. This is a hands-on role for someone who can turn promising reform opportunities into real progress. You build strong relationships, work well across governments, partners and funders, and know how to get things done.   About Prevail Prevail is a new foundation dedicated to catalyzing large-scale social change by supporting private philanthropists and field implementers to pursue more ambitious and impactful goals. We work with private philanthropists to fund specific initiatives for 10-12 years. Rather than diversifying across multiple causes, we prioritize deep, strategic investments in proven solutions with the potential to reshape global norms. For example, our first fund aims to improve foundational education for over 27.5 million children across 11 national governments in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Prevail provides patient capital to implementers – primarily in the form of grants that grow over time as our partner organizations scale. In addition to funding, Prevail also offers a suite of systems and talent development services designed to address common growth barriers and prepare partner organizations for accelerated scale. In our first three years, we've: - Made significant progress against our ambitious fundraising targets - Partnered with 30+ organizations across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia - Hired 35+ mission-driven team members globally - Run dozens of execution projects to strengthen key functions for our partners You can find a bit more information about Prevail Fund and what to expect from our recruitment process here https://www.canva.com/design/DAGetQfrr9U/JDu6A0CR7Y_-xZ9CvYAnww/view?utm_content=DAGetQfrr9U&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h57b65ef349. 
 About this role In this role, you will work across governments and the broader education ecosystem to understand where large-scale foundational learning reforms are gaining momentum, where they are getting stuck, and what support could help them succeed. Most of your work will focus on reforms involving structured pedagogy, targeted instruction, and/or personalized, adaptive learning. You will assess political and implementation realities, identify bottlenecks and opportunities, coordinate funding and technical support, and help partners move from promising ideas to sustained impact at scale. - Ecosystem engagement: You will identify and develop promising government-facing reform support opportunities. - Proactively develop promising funding opportunities by building relationships, spotting openings, shaping early ideas, and aligning with government and other ecosystem actors. This may be in support to other Partnership Officers leading engagement in key geographies. - Identify potential partners who could support government-led reforms, including groups of partners with complementary roles such as goal-setting, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. - Stay closely connected to key actors such as the Global Partnership for Education, the World Bank, bilateral funding agencies, other foundations, and support organizations where their priorities, financing, or influence could materially affect funding opportunities and/or the cost-effective impact and scale of supported reforms. - Funding and investment decisions: You will manage the funding decisions for your portfolio. - De