National Sales and Partnerships Manager

African Adventures creates life-changing international volunteering experiences for schools, colleges and charities, enabling groups to make a meaningful difference in communities across Ghana, Kenya, Zanzibar and The Gambia. Working in partnership with more than 50 schools, we deliver educational, cultural and community-focused programmes that have a lasting impact on both participants and the communities we support.

We’re a unique organisation, combining the expertise of a tour operator with the purpose of an international development organisation. We deliver life-changing volunteering experiences for schools, colleges and charities, providing a fully managed travel service that includes everything from flights and accommodation to pre-departure support and fundraising guidance. At the same time, we work closely with our partner schools across Africa to improve school facilities, expand educational opportunities and create lasting, positive impact for the communities we support.

We’re in an exciting phase of growth at African Adventures, and we’re looking for an ambitious, commercially driven sales leader to join us as our new National Sales & Partnerships Manager. This is a newly created leadership role, offering the opportunity to shape and scale our national recruitment and partnerships function, influence business strategy, and play a key part in delivering our ambitious five-year growth plan.

Leading a high-performing partnerships team, you’ll be responsible for driving sustainable revenue growth, achieving annual recruitment targets, developing strategic partnerships, and creating a high-performance, customer-focused sales culture. Working closely with the broader management team, you’ll use data, insight and effective leadership to continually improve performance, strengthen relationships, and ensure the sales function directly supports the wider objectives of the business.

This is an office-based hybrid position, with Monday to Wednesday based in our Whiteley office and Thursday and Friday worked from home. The role also requires periodic travel across the UK to support remote team members through induction, coaching, quality management and relationship building.

You’ll be an experienced and results driven sales leader with a proven track record of leading high-performing, target-driven sales functions and delivering sustainable growth. You’ll have demonstrable experience of developing departmental targets that align with wider business objectives, creating a positive, customer-focused sales culture through exceptional leadership and communication, and using CRM and sales systems to monitor, analyse and improve performance.

You’ll also be willing and able to travel across the UK to support, coach and engage with remote team members.

An interest in travel, international development or the UK education sector would be a real advantage, but it’s not essential.

In return, you’ll join a friendly, supportive team during an exciting period of growth, with the opportunity to shape a new leadership role, influence the direction of the business and make a meaningful impact within a unique, purpose-driven organisation.

• Line management of the Regional Partnerships Coordinators, including recruitment, targets, performance standards & monitoring, and welfare.
• Provide the Partnerships team with remote/in-person support, leadership and direction.
• Provide the department’s quality and assurance function as lead verifier to performance standards.
• Responsible for sustaining a healthy culture and principles of the team.
• Champion organisational mission, values and ethical approach to volunteer travel.

• Own and deliver annual company revenue targets, aligned to growth objectives.
• Responsible for measuring and presenting progress to company-wide recruitment targets; supporting the Company’s business plan; setting and monitoring departmental KPIs to ensure business plan targets are achieved.
• Responsible for an effective suite of business development tools and strategies being in place supporting the work of the Regional Partnerships…