World Bicycle Relief

Director – Partnerships and Advocacy

World Bicycle Relief

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇩🇪 Germany

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Lead

About the role

  • Develop, lead, and oversee the execution of WBR’s Partnerships and Influence Strategy to integrate bicycle mobility solutions into education, health, economic development, and climate/environment systems.
  • Translate evidence from WBR’s research and impact data into compelling partnership value propositions and strategic funding and influencing opportunities.
  • Serve on WBR's global leadership team, contributing to organizational growth, learning, and representation.
  • Coordinate the Partnerships and Influence Strategy’s integration and implementation across the organization at global and country levels, ensuring aligned, evidence-informed engagement and communications.
  • Liaise with the Marketing and Communications (MarComms) team as needed.
  • Build internal capacity across operating countries for strategic partnerships and influence.
  • Work with regional and country leadership to ensure their strategies are grounded in local realities and priorities while also connected to global strategies and opportunities.
  • Model WBR's values in external engagement—demonstrating collaborative leadership, evidence-based decision-making, and commitment to sustainable impact.
  • Represent WBR at strategic forums, and support country-level partnership development.
  • Build and strengthen strategic relationships with multilateral institutions (World Bank, UNICEF, Global Fund, UN agencies, Green Climate Fund) and leading international NGOs to embed bicycle mobility into large-scale development programs and financing mechanisms.
  • Support WBR operating countries in strengthening relationships with ministries and other government partners to integrate bicycle mobility into strategies, plans, technical approaches and programs, budgets, and policies.
  • Coordinate closely with the Development and MarComms teams to ensure partnership strategies are integrated into and aligned with fundraising priorities and external messaging.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of senior leadership in international development, advocacy, development/fundraising, or systems change roles.
  • Proven track record building and stewarding strategic partnerships with governments, multilateral institutions, foundations, or major bilateral donors that resulted in tangible systems change or integration
  • Experience working with a product or service-based organization (ideally a social enterprise) rather than solely technical vertical programming—understanding how to position a tangible solution across multiple use cases and sectors
  • Track record of designing and executing multi-stakeholder partnerships that deliver measurable outcomes. Plus experience supporting capacity building or strategic advising for country-level teams
  • Demonstrated success translating evidence and research into policy influence, advocacy strategies, or institutional positioning
  • Strong understanding of development systems and policy environments in Africa and/or Latin America.
  • Experience leading proposal design and providing technical input for bilateral, multilateral, foundation, and corporate funding opportunities exceeding $1M.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and external representation skills. Including sophisticated relationship management and negotiation skills appropriate for engaging with senior government officials, multilateral executives, and foundation leaders
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate across cultures and geographies.
  • Familiarity with social entrepreneurship, market-based approaches to development, or hybrid organizations that blend nonprofit and enterprise models
  • Commitment to WBR’s mission and values.
  • Willingness to travel globally (25–35%).
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Professional development opportunities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
partnership developmentfundraisingpolicy influenceadvocacy strategiesproposal designtechnical inputcapacity buildingstrategic advisingevidence-based decision-makingsystems change
Soft skills
collaborative leadershipcommunicationnegotiationrelationship managemententrepreneurial mindsetcross-cultural operationexternal representationstrategic thinkingorganizational growthevidence-informed engagement