💼 Full-Time Position

Grants and Partnerships Lead

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BURN MANUFACTURING
📍 Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Location
Nairobi, Kenya
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Posted
June 18, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

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...