In A Nutshell
Location
Remote Anywhere in Canada
Job Type
Full-time
Experience Level
Senior-level
Deadline to apply
December 10, 2025
Lead Viamo’s multilateral portfolio, ensuring that our partnerships advance organizational strategy, align with our product roadmap, and unlock opportunities across Viamo’s markets
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Own and grow Viamo’s global portfolio of multilateral partnerships, positioning the organization as a long-term strategic partner.
- Develop and implement multi-year partnership strategies with UN agencies, the World Bank, and other multilaterals.
- Secure global framework agreements and MSAs that cascade into country-level opportunities for recurring revenue.
- Represent Viamo externally as a senior leader at global forums, UN headquarters, multilateral events, and high-level negotiations.
Opportunity Development & Account Growth
- Proactively identify and pursue opportunities with multilaterals that align with Viamo’s strategy and product roadmap.
- Lead major negotiations, proposals, and partnership agreements at the global level.
- Work closely with Regional Directors and Country Directors to capture opportunities flowing from global agreements.
- Ensure account plans include pathways for repeat business, multi-country scaling, and cross-sector engagement.
Strategic Influence & Coordination
- Ensure multilateral partnerships inform and shape Viamo’s product strategy by working closely with the Product team to keep solutions relevant and scalable for global institutional clients.
- Act as senior account manager on multilateral-funded projects, staying close to delivery to safeguard client satisfaction, support course corrections, and convert client success into expanded partnerships.
- Provide direct coverage for a select group of countries as proving grounds for multilateral partnerships, ensuring hands-on engagement with delivery, iteration, and demonstration of scalable impact.
- Partner with Viamo’s Strategic Partnerships, Foundations, and Country Partnerships teams to divide and manage global responsibilities.
- Coach and support country and regional teams in engaging effectively with multilateral stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the Global Leadership Team to forecast growth, align strategy, and measure performance.
Travel & Coordination
- Travel frequently to global headquarters and regional hubs.
- Flex working schedule to align with partner time zones (e.g., New York for UN agencies, Washington DC for World Bank).
Skillset
- 10+ years of experience in global partnerships, account management, or business development within multilateral organizations, INGOs, ICT4D, or social enterprise.
- Proven success in securing and managing multi-million-dollar agreements with UN agencies, the World Bank, or other multilaterals.
- Track record of building recurring revenue and long-term partnerships at the global level.
- Exceptional relationship management and influencing skills with senior multilateral stakeholders.
- Strategic thinker with entrepreneurial drive; proven ability to co-create and scale innovative solutions with partners.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to navigate complex negotiations across cultures and geographies.
- Flexibility to travel frequently and adapt to global partner time zones.