Core Education
Long-term, mission-critical operating partner of colleges and universities
Vice President, Partnerships
Location
United States
Posted
99 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Bachelor Degree10 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Personally lead high-stakes consultative engagements with presidents, boards, and cabinets.
• Conduct diagnostic conversations that reveal financial pressures, operational weaknesses, strategic options, and institutional decision dynamics.
• Reframe institutional challenges using Core’s frameworks - financial resilience, growth architecture, digital strategy, and system design.
• Guide account strategy and engagements from first conversation to formal commitment, ensuring clarity of purpose, structured progression, and shared understanding at every stage.
• Advance institutional decision-making forward with clarity, structure, and momentum - no drift, no ambiguity.
• Develop and deliver proposals and scopes that are precise, compelling, and aligned with Core’s delivery capacity and strategic intent.
• Maintain accurate forecasting, pipeline integrity, and revenue.
• Partner with finance to align pricing and revenue models with organizational targets.
• Coordinate closely with practice leads to ensure commitments align with delivery capacity, resource planning, and margin expectations.
• Track and report on sales performance indicators, driving continuous improvement.
• Assist with shaping Core’s external voice on all instruments related to transformation.
• Develop case studies, framing documents, and narratives that strengthen consultative sales.
• Represent Core at national conferences, association events, and executive convenings.
• Translate market intelligence into strategic insights for product, service, and model evolution.
• Serve as a Player–Coach, modeling executive presence, consultative rigor, and disciplined follow-through.
• Coach team members in objection handling, framing, and executive communication.
• Assist with building repeatable playbooks, templates, and processes.
• Develop high-performing talent capable of engaging C-suite and board audiences.
• Lead Core’s institutional growth strategy, defining messaging, methods, and success metrics aligned with Core’s operating model.
• Shape Core’s go-to-market positioning in partnership with the CEO and executive team.
• Build and manage a national pipeline of institutional opportunities reflecting Core’s portfolio: financial resilience, growth plans, digital modernization, M&A advisory, and Private Systems.
• Establish a disciplined, performance-oriented culture that mirrors Core’s consulting excellence.
• Serve as a senior external face for Core with presidents, boards, and sector partners.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years in enterprise or consultative sales, higher education strategy, digital transformation, or professional services.
- Demonstrated success closing complex, multi-stakeholder executive-level engagements.
- Ability to carry and exceed a personal quota while building and leading a high-performing team.
- Exceptional communication and executive presence - able to create clarity in moments of complexity or tension.
- Deep understanding of (or ability to rapidly learn) higher education finance, enrollment, digital modernization, and governance.
- Experience establishing disciplined sales processes, performance systems, and capability-building programs.
- Entrepreneurial mindset: thrives in a growth-oriented, mission-driven organization.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
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