Consultants - Grants Specialists

Job Description

Title: Consultants - Grants Specialists

Company Name: Light of Hope Ltd.

Vacancy: 5

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka (Dhanmondi)

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• 10 to 12 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Public Relations
• Bachelor of Arts (BA)

• 10 to 12 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Nice to Have:

• Country/sector depth in Bangladesh/South Asia.
• Familiarity with NSDA/TVET (for skills), green/value-chain finance (for climate), or EdTech (for education).
• English and Bangla proficiency.

Essential Qualifications

• 10–20 years’ progressive experience in grants/business development for NGOs or social enterprise with experience working in Donor organizations like UN, ILO, Oxfam,World Bank. 
• Proven wins and stewardship of multi-year awards (≥USD 500k+), including sub-grants/sub-contracts.
• Demonstrated partner management and selection, especially with private companies (PSE, shared value, SIINC, CSR).
• Strong design skills (ToC/logframe), budgeting with donors, and compliance (safeguarding, PSEA, data protection).
• Excellent writing (English) and facilitation; ability to lead remote, multi-country bid teams.

Sectors: Education | Climate & Environment | Skills Development | Livelihoods | (Open/Thematic PSE)

Type: Remote, Part-time (consultancy roster)

Experience: 10–20 years

Compensation: Negotiable

About the Roles

Light of Hope is building a roster of five senior Grants Specialists to lead fundraising and partnership development across the above sectors. Ideal consultants bring deep donor experience and a strong track record achieving complex grants and managing partner selection/management with private-sector engagement.

Engagement & Level of Effort

• Remote, part-time
• Contract: 12-month renewable consultancy roster.
• Start: ASAP.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and manage a rolling pipeline of funding opportunities (bilateral, UN, foundations, corporate/PSE).
• Lead proposal strategy: design workshops, theory of change, logframe/MEL plan, risk & safeguarding, and value-for-money.
• Develop compliant proposals: technical narrative, budget & cost notes, workplan, staffing, and annexes.
• Conduct partner scoping, due diligence, and private-sector engagement (co-creation, cash/in-kind leverage, MOUs).
• Support grant start-up and handover: compliance matrix, reporting calendar, partner sub-award packages.
• Strengthen internal systems: templates, checklists, lessons learned, and bid/no-bid criteria.
• Mentor program and BD teams on donor rules (USAID, FCDO, GAC, EU, UN, World Bank, corporate CSR).

What We Offer Flexible, outcome-based Salary, competitive and negotiable Opportunity to shape high-impact programs with strong private-sector linkages.