Grants and Partnerships Lead

About the role This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for owning BURN’s grants writing function end-to-end, from opportunity identification through proposal development and funder stewardship.

You will work directly with the Director to position BURN compellingly to bilateral donors, multilateral development institutions, philanthropic foundations, and climate-focused grant programmes.

BURN's funding landscape is sophisticated.

Our grant pipeline spans energy access, GHG reduction, energy transition, gender, climate adaptation, clean cooking, and industrial development across funders, including the GIZ, UNCDF, World Bank, and a range of bilateral and multilateral windows.

Duties and Responsibilities Pipeline Strategy & Intelligence Own and continuously develop BURN's grant pipeline, covering bilateral, multilateral, foundation, and climate finance grant windows Conduct systematic horizon-scanning to identify new fun...