Description

FriendnPal is seeking a  Growth and Partnerships Associate to help expand the reach and impact of our predictive, multilingual AI mental health platform. We combine behavioural insights, digital mental health support, and human clinical care to help identify emerging emotional distress and improve access to timely support.

This remote, English-speaking opportunity is suited to someone interested in business development, strategic partnerships, social entrepreneurship, digital health, or growth strategy. You will help identify organisations that share our mission, research partnership opportunities, support outreach, and develop relationships that can expand access to FriendnPal's solutions.

You will gain practical experience in partnership development, market research, stakeholder engagement, and social-impact growth while contributing to a mission focused on improving mental healthcare access. This is a voluntary, unpaid role with agreed responsibilities, realistic targets, and a flexible schedule.

Responsibilities

• Research and identify potential partners, including healthcare providers, employers, universities, NGOs, foundations, community organisations, and other relevant institutions.

• Build and maintain a structured database of prospective partners, including their priorities, contact information from appropriate public or authorised sources, and potential areas of collaboration.

• Research target markets, stakeholder needs, and opportunities for expanding FriendnPal's reach.

• Support the preparation of partnership proposals, concept notes, pitch materials, presentations, and introductory emails.

• Assist with outreach and follow-up communications to prospective partners, using approved messaging and outreach processes.

• Identify opportunities for pilot programmes, joint initiatives, referrals, institutional adoption, and community engagement.

• Support the development of partnership strategies aligned with FriendnPal's growth objectives and social-impact mission.

• Help prepare for virtual meetings, document discussions, track next steps, and maintain partnership pipeline records.

• Monitor relevant digital health, mental health, AI, and social-impact developments that may create partnership opportunities.

• Collaborate with the leadership and growth teams to track progress against agreed milestones and identify ways to improve partnership conversion.

• Maintain professional communication, confidentiality, and accurate records of all partnership activities.

Required Skills

Partnership Development, UX research & user journey mapping, Business Research, Market Research, Prospect Research, Sales / Lead Generation

Required Experience

• 2 to 3 Years