Partner Success Manager

About this role

About ALX Africa

ALX Africa, a non-profit organisation under the ALX Foundation, is dedicated to unlocking the potential of Africa's digital future. Formerly part of Sand Tech Holdings, we've embarked on an independent journey to provide world-class tech skills training and career acceleration programmes. Our mission is to bridge the digital divide, upskill and re-skill talent, and create a generation of innovative leaders. By 2030, we aim to empower 2 million Africans to secure sustainable tech careers.

With hubs in 8 cities across Africa and counting, we provide safe access to quality learning and a dedicated network of expert instructors. Our innovative programmes equip learners with the practical skills and knowledge needed to succeed in today's rapidly evolving tech industry. Through a combination of rigorous coursework, industry partnerships, and hands-on projects, we prepare our students for in-demand roles in software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity.

We achieve this by:

• Providing young professionals with access to the most in-demand tech skills that will power the future.

• Empowering the next generation of technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders through challenging, real-world coursework.

• Building a lifelong, impactful community of tech professionals that support them at all stages of their career journey.

Our impact thus far:

• 347k+ graduates since 2020

• 257k youth in work

• 31k youth starting own ventures

• 60k youth in jobs created by entrepreneurs

Visit our website www.alxafrica.com to learn more about our digital revolution.

Partner Success Manager

Reports to: Regional General Manager

Location: South Africa

Employment: 10-month contract | 1 October 2026 – 31 July 2027

Role Summary

The Partner Success Manager is responsible for the successful execution of partner agreements from signature through to completion.

This role owns the partner relationship while, critically, ensuring that everything agreed is translated into a clear delivery plan and executed to a high standard. The role will coordinate delivery across internal teams and external stakeholders, manage timelines and deliverables, track performance against agreed outcomes, and ensure partners receive consistent communication and reporting throughout the engagement.

This is an execution-heavy role: own the agreement, drive the delivery, manage the partner and ensure the outcomes are delivered.

Manage a portfolio of 1–3 partner relationships, depending on the size, complexity and strategic importance of each initiative. Larger, more complex partnerships will require deeper day-to-day programme management and stakeholder coordination, while smaller initiatives may allow the role to manage a broader portfolio.

The role will manage partnerships focused on talent and entrepreneurship outcomes, ensuring that participants move successfully through the agreed customer journey and that the partnership delivers measurable economic outcomes.

Typical Partnership Scope

The core journey is:

Recruitment & Selection → Skills → Work Readiness → Placement/ Self-employment → Retention & Progression → Monitor & Tracking

Depending on the partnership, this may also include an entrepreneurship pathway:

Recruitment & Selection → Skills → Business Readiness → Venture Development → Income / Business Growth Retention & Progression → Monitor & Tracking

The Partner Success Manager is responsible for ensuring the activities, stakeholders and deliverables required at each stage of the journey are coordinated and executed effectively.

This includes:

• Recruitment & Selection: Coordinating agreed recruitment and selection activities to ensure the right participants are identified, selected and onboarded against programme requirements.

• Skills: Ensuring participants are successfully enrolled, engaged and progressing through the agreed learning experience.

• Work Readiness: Coordinating career preparation, professional skills, CV/profile development, interview preparation and other agreed readiness interventions.

• Placement / Self-Employment: Driving the coordination of employer, recruitment, client and opportunity pipelines to support agreed employment, freelance, contract or self-employment outcomes.

• Business Readiness: Where applicable, coordinating the support required to prepare participants to develop and operate viable businesses.

• Venture Development: Where applicable, coordinating entrepreneurship support from venture development through to income generation and business growth.

• Retention & Progression: Ensuring agreed post-placement or post-programme support, tracking and interventions are delivered to support sustained outcomes and progression.

• Monitoring & Tracking: Maintaining accurate visibility of participant progress, programme milestones, deliverables and outcomes throughout the partnership, and ensuring data is available for reporting.

• Partner Outcomes: Ensuring the partner has clear visibility of progress and that agreed impact and outcome targets are achieved, evidenced and communicated.

Specific Responsibilities

Own Partner Agreement Execution

• Translate signed partner agreements into clear delivery plans, milestones, KPIs, timelines and accountabilities.

• Ensure every contractual deliverable has a clear owner and is actively tracked through to completion.

• Coordinate internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver agreed activities and outcomes.

• Manage changes to scope, timelines or deliverables and ensure these are appropriately documented.

• Identify delivery risks and gaps early and drive resolution.

• Own programme close-out, ensuring all contractual deliverables and reporting requirements are completed.

Own the Participant / Beneficiary Journey

• Coordinate delivery across the agreed journey — from Recruitment & Selection through Skills, Work Readiness, Placement / Self-Employment, Retention & Progression, through to…