Senior Development Associate – Account Stewardship

Senior Development Associate – Account Stewardship

Supervisor: Director of Development and Stewardship

Type of Contract: Employee or Consultant contract (depending on location)

Location: Europe (remote)

Availability: Immediate

Available Budget: 30,000/year GROSS (or equivalent as consultant), based on experience, location and contractual arrangements.

Deadline: Rolling basis until filling the position

Are you passionate about building strong partnerships, creating long-term relationships and growing collaborations that make a real difference for young people across Europe?

Do you enjoy working with corporate partners and foundations, identifying opportunities to expand existing collaborations and ensuring that partnerships deliver meaningful impact? Are you proactive, organised and motivated to strengthen partner engagement, secure renewals and contribute to fundraising growth?

If you combine excellent relationship management skills with a strategic mindset and the ability to turn opportunities into results, this role could be for you.

JA Europe is looking for a motivated and proactive Senior Development Associate – Partnership Stewardship to join our Development Team and help manage, strengthen and grow our existing partnerships, contributing to the resources needed to inspire and prepare young people for employment, entrepreneurship and financial success.

Key Responsibilities

• Account Management: Manage and maintain strong relationships with a portfolio of existing corporate and foundation partners, ensuring regular communication, partner satisfaction and effective collaboration.
• Account Growth & Fundraising: Proactively identify opportunities to grow existing partnerships, increase funding, expand programmes into additional countries and develop new initiatives aligned with partners’ strategic priorities.
• Accounts Retention & Renewals: Support and coordinate account renewal processes, prepare renewal proposals and contribute to securing continued and multi-year funding commitments.
• Strategic Accounts Development: Identify opportunities to strengthen existing collaborations and develop deeper, long-term strategic partnerships that create shared value and measurable impact.
• Account Delivery & Coordination: Work closely with internal teams and JA national organisations to ensure the successful implementation of partnership activities, contractual commitments and agreed deliverables.
• Impact Reporting & Partner Communication: Coordinate the preparation of high-quality progress reports with Education team, and partner communications that demonstrate the results and value of JA Europe’s programmes.
• Partner Engagement & Visibility: Support partner engagement opportunities, including corporate volunteering, employee involvement, events, awards and sponsorship activities, particularly at GEN-E, Europe’s largest entrepreneurship festival.
• Proposal Development: Prepare tailored partnership proposals, concept notes, presentations and funding opportunities to support partnership expansion and renewal discussions.
• Internal Collaboration: Coordinate with Programme/Education, Communications, Finance and Development colleagues to ensure effective partnership management and identify opportunities for collaboration across teams.
• Account Management & Tracking: Maintain accurate partner records, contractual information, reporting deadlines, renewal timelines and partnership growth opportunities using internal tracking systems.
• Strategic Insights & Continuous Improvement: Monitor partners’ evolving priorities, CSR and ESG strategies, and funding interests, while contributing ideas to improve stewardship processes, partner engagement and fundraising effectiveness.

The Ideal Candidate Will Bring

• 2-5 years of relevant experience in partnership management, account management, fundraising, business development, corporate relations, project coordination or a related field.
• Strong relationship management and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and maintain positive, long-term relationships with corporate and foundation partners.
• A proactive and growth-oriented mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities to strengthen and expand existing partnerships.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including the ability to prepare compelling proposals, presentations, reports and partner communications.
• Strong organisational and project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple partnerships, priorities, deadlines and deliverables simultaneously.
• Good analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to understand partnership objectives, funding commitments and programm