[Hiring] Partnerships Operations Manager @Simprints

Role Description

The Partnerships Operations Manager will help build the operating engine behind Simprints’ growth. This role will support the Partnerships team to identify, qualify, and progress high-value opportunities more effectively, while improving the systems, data, and automation that underpin our revenue generation.

You will sit at the intersection of sales operations, market intelligence, AI-enabled automation, and proposal development. One day you might be improving our CRM and pipeline reporting; the next, building an AI-assisted workflow to scan donor opportunities; the next, coordinating inputs for a grant application or preparing a funder brief.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys creating structure, improving processes, and helping senior relationship-holders move faster and more strategically. You will make the Partnerships team sharper, more disciplined, and better equipped to grow a healthy and diversified pipeline.

Qualifications

• Experience in sales operations, growth operations, fundraising operations, business development operations, ideally in a mission-driven, technology, global health, or international development context.
• Strong systems and process skills, including experience managing CRMs, pipelines, dashboards, spreadsheets, trackers, or workflow tools.
• Confidence using AI and automation tools to improve team efficiency, reduce manual work, and create scalable processes.
• Excellent research, analytical, and synthesis skills, with the ability to turn complex market or funder information into clear recommendations.
• Strong written communication and project coordination skills, including the ability to support proposals, support and produce presentations, funder briefs, internal decision documents, and cross-team deadlines.

Requirements

• Manage and improve Partnerships systems and pipeline operations.
• Revamp our CRM engine and maintain CRM hygiene, pipeline data, opportunity and task tracking, dashboards, and reporting so the team has clear visibility on priorities, risks, next steps, and revenue forecasts.
• Build AI-enabled automation for growth and fundraising workflows.
• Design practical automations to support funder scanning, opportunity alerts, donor research, meeting preparation, proposal content development, follow-up tracking, and pipeline reporting.
• Scout and qualify new opportunities.
• Monitor the market for relevant grants, RFPs, funder calls, innovation challenges, and strategic partnership opportunities, using clear criteria to assess fit, competitiveness, revenue potential, impact, and internal effort required.
• Support grant applications and proposal development.
• Coordinate timelines, internal inputs, compliance checks, and supporting materials for proposals and funder submissions; draft or refine selected sections where needed.
• Strengthen market, funder, and partner intelligence.
• Produce concise research outputs such as funder briefs, opportunity summaries, country or sector snapshots, partner maps, and go/no-go recommendations to support better decision-making.

Benefits

• Genuine Impact: Work directly with our partners and users to deliver technology that has the potential to impact millions of lives across the globe.
• An incredible, diverse team: Our work is at the intersection of technology and global development, and we’ve managed to build an amazing team drawn from all over the world.
• Mutual Flex: We champion a work culture where autonomy and trust are paramount, steering clear of mere face-time metrics.
• Ultimate work-life balance: We offer a 4-day workweek and unlimited annual leave.
• Professional development: We promote continual learning and provide a generous professional development budget for each colleague.