Senior Education Advisor - MENA

Salary: Competitive

Location: Egypt

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 40 hours per week

Cambridge Partnership for Education (Partnership) has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Education Advisor, where you will play a key role in supporting the UK and MENA based team to identify, shape and secure education reform opportunities across the MENA region. The role focuses on building strong relationships with ministries of education and key stakeholders, developing a robust regional pipeline, and supporting the progression of high value opportunities through contract award.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

This role is pivotal in strengthening our regional commercial capability by generating and qualifying new opportunities, supporting solution design and bid development, and maximising the value of existing customer relationships, ultimately contributing to sustainable growth and improved educational outcomes across the region.

About the role

Cambridge Partnership for Education works with ministries of education and international development organisations to improve the quality and performance of education systems worldwide. We design bespoke education reform solutions tailored to each country's unique context, priorities and vision, enabling sustainable impact and meaningful change.

As a Senior Education Advisor, you will play a key role in supporting colleagues identify, shape and progress education reform opportunities across the MENA region. The role combines regional market insight, relationship management and commercial acumen, working closely with ministries of education, partners and internal teams to develop high value opportunities aligned to Cambridge's education reform proposition.

Using your strong communication and stakeholder management skills, you will support the development of solutions and proposals, coordinating closely with Business Development, Technical, Delivery and Corporate Services teams, as well as external partners where required. You will act as a key regional interface throughout the opportunity lifecycle—from early engagement and qualification through to bid development, contract award and transition to delivery.

Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:

• Support the progression of opportunities by providing regional insight, customer context and education expertise to inform solution design and bids.
• Maintain strong relationships with customers throughout the bid and proposal process to ensure alignment with their needs and priorities.
• Contribute to strengthening Cambridge's regional commercial capability by supporting pipeline development, opportunity qualification and long-term customer relationships.

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.

About You

You will bring strong commercial awareness, excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to work collaboratively across a complex, international environment. With proven experience supporting opportunity development, solution shaping or bid activity, you will be confident contributing to the progression of high value opportunities and comfortable working at pace with multiple priorities.

Ideally, you will have knowledge of public sector procurement processes, including working with ministries of education, government bodies or donor funded organisations, and an understanding of how education reform programmes are developed, approved and contracted.

You will be able to influence and communicate effectively at a senior level, both internally and externally, and work on your own initiative to provide regional insight, education expertise and commercial input throughout the opportunity lifecycle. You will also have:

If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:

• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Strong IT skills, including MS Office and CRM systems
• Strong written and spoken English, with Arabic essential (French advantageous)

We would consider this role as a development opportunity for strong candidates who may not have held a Senior Education Advisor role previously but can demonstrate relevant experience in business development, education, international development or government facing environments, alongside sound commercial judgement and the ability to build trusted relationships.

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 7 May 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place from the week commencing 11 May 2026.

If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:

• First stage virtual interview via MS Teams.
• Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cairo, Egypt.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.