Grants & Programmes Manager

As Grants Manager you will work closely with a portfolio of in-country programme partners that the Better Cotton GIF funds. You will assess applications for funding, review project reports, and, together with the Programmes team, play a key role in recommending what funding and support should be committed to them. As the GIF funds the programme partners of the main GIF fund directly, you will need to be able to manage all the processes efficiently while at the same time building solid, trusting and collaborative relationships with grantee management. We are also looking for someone who can bring fresh ideas to improve the way we fund. The ideal candidate will have lived in South Asia and/or Sub-Saharan Africa or visited them extensively. If you have a particular expertise in gender, climate change, soil health, pest control, or smallholder livelihoods, that would be an enormous advantage.

Better Cotton is the world's largest cotton sustainability programme. Our mission: to help cotton communities survive and thrive, while protecting and restoring the environment. In challenging times, we are meeting the challenge head on. Through our network of field-level partners we have trained over 2.5 million farmers - from the smallest to the largest - in 23 countries in more sustainable farming practices. A quarter of the world's cotton is now grown under the Better Cotton Standard. We have united the industry's stakeholders behind our efforts, from ginners and spinners to brand owners, civil society organisations and governments. Everyone who cares about cotton and its sustainable future can now be part of something better.