Job Title: Industry Partnerships and Business Development Specialist
Date Posted: 07/07/2026
Job Type: Full Time
Employer: Strathmore
University
Industry: Sales &
Marketing
Salary: Open
Location: Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Deadline: 10/07/2026
Looking for a sales & marketing job in Kenya? Strathmore University is hiring an industry partnerships & business development specialist to build strategic partnerships and manage stakeholder relationships.
The role is based in Nairobi and experience in designing and delivering awareness campaigns is required.
Basic Job Summary:
- To lead engagement with industry and the entrepreneurial ecosystem
across the project: brokering partnerships between training
institutions and the private sector, developing business-development
and entrepreneurship linkages along the GH2 value chain
(with attention to SMEs, women and youth), leading policy-brief
drafting and sector recommendations, and delivering the
knowledge-sharing and awareness-raising work packages.
Key Responsibilities
Industry
Partnerships, Knowledge Sharing and Awareness
- The key tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Build and maintain a database of GH2 private-sector stakeholders;
engage industry in skills mapping and skills-gap validation.
- Establish private-sector partnerships and MoUs for training and
Centre-of-Excellence involvement
- Support job placement, internships and company onboarding and
entrepreneur selection for the Exchange Programme.
- Lead inter-project liaison with other TEI OP-VET project partners
and compile the
- GH2 VET Best Practice Guide / knowledge products documenting
learnings.
- Set up and implement the GH2 awareness campaign, including
stakeholder mapping, materials, and dissemination activities.
Project Coordination and
Reporting
The
key tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Lead the drafting of policy briefs with recommendations for the VET
sector and its
- Green Hydrogen linkage and further sector/advocacy inputs
- Identify and promote business-development and entrepreneurship
opportunities for
- SMEs and women- and youth-led enterprises.
- Foster inclusive public–private partnerships and identify
opportunities for publicprivate collaboration.
- Coordinate closely with other consortium members on project delivery
- Report on progress and deliverables to the SERC Project Manager
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Development
Studies, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Public Policy or a related
field.
- A Bachelor’s degree with substantial additional relevant experience
may be considered.
- Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies/
Publication:
- Experience drafting policy briefs and best-practice guides.
- Membership of a relevant professional body is an asset
Work Experience:
- At least seven (7) years in private-sector development, business
development, partnership brokering or public–private partnerships,
ideally in energy, industrial or skills sectors.
- Demonstrated experience drafting policy briefs and engaging with
policy-making and regulatory bodies.
- Proven experience designing and delivering awareness campaigns,
workshops and conferences.
- Experience facilitating regional or inter-project knowledge sharing
is a strong asset.
- Sound knowledge of Kenya’s private-sector and SME ecosystem;
commitment to gender- and youth-inclusive approaches.
Competency Level:
- Excellent stakeholder-engagement, networking and
partnership-brokering skills.
- Strong analytical and policy-writing ability; clear, persuasive
communication.
- Strong event and campaign management and coordination skills.
- Excellent written and spoken English
How to Apply
Kindly send them a copy of
your updated resume and letter of application quoting “Industry Partnerships
and Business Development Specialist” on the subject line to recruitment@strathmore.edu
