Business Development Partner

Company Description Impactful Data partners with NGOs, research institutes, and mission-driven organizations to design data and evidence systems that directly inform strategic decisions in global development and sustainability. The work focuses on building structures that connect data, evidence, and decision-making, including monitoring and evaluation systems, evidence frameworks, and reproducible data infrastructures. Impactful Data helps organizations translate quantitative analysis into practical policy and strategy insights, enabling better choices about resource allocation, program scaling, and adaptation. The practice is led by an economist and data scientist with over 20 years of international experience across Europe, Africa, and Latin America, working at the intersection of development, sustainability, and public policy.

Role Description The Business Development Partner will play a key role in expanding Impactful Data’s collaborations with NGOs, research institutes, and mission-driven organizations. This contract, remote role involves identifying and qualifying new partnership opportunities, nurturing relationships with prospective clients, and articulating how Impactful Data’s services can strengthen their decision systems. Day-to-day tasks include conducting outreach and discovery calls, co-developing proposals and scopes of work, coordinating with the founder on project timelines and deliverables, and maintaining a structured pipeline of opportunities. The partner will also help refine messaging, support occasional training or presentations for potential clients, and provide feedback on service offerings based on market needs.

Qualifications

• Candidates should possess strong Consulting and Sales skills to understand client needs, shape solutions, and convert opportunities into engagements.
• Candidates should possess solid Project Management skills to coordinate timelines, track deliverables, and support smooth collaboration across multiple engagements.
• Candidates should possess existing network in international development, sustainability, public policy and social impact.
• Relevant experience in global development, sustainability, public policy, or impact-focused organizations is highly beneficial.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills, with the ability to work independently in a remote setting.
• Demonstrated ability to understand complex concepts related to data, evidence, and decision systems and translate them into clear value propositions.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., economics, public policy, international development, business) or equivalent professional experience.
  
  

Ccommission-based collaboration