Landscape Lead – The Grasslands Initiative

ATREE’s Grasslands Initiative (TGI) is a mission-mode initiative to advance the recognition, conservation, restoration and sustainable management of India’s grasslands and other open natural ecosystems (ONEs).

The initiative aims to support landscape-scale restoration and management across priority grassland regions of India, while ensuring that ecological outcomes, local livelihoods and the rights of local communities are secured.

Location: In Western, Rajasthan or Mumbai/ Pune (Maharashtra), with substantial travel to project landscapes and partner locations

Reporting to: Director, The Grasslands Initiative, ATREE

• Landscape strategy, implementation and project management
• Develop landscape-level strategies and action plans for restoration, conservation and sustainable management of grasslands in the focal landscapes.
• Identify opportunities for expanding TGI’s work across states and ecological regions.
• Facilitate coordination between scientific teams, implementation partners and government agencies and develop solutions for scaling.
• Government and institutional partnerships
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with relevant state departments, district administrations, technical institutions and other stakeholders.
• Represent TGI in relevant policy, technical and multi-stakeholder forums.
• Contribute to TGI’s targets for landscape-scale restoration and public finance mobilisation.
• Partnerships and resource mobilisation
• Contribute to the development of strategic partnerships with funders, philanthropic organisations, development agencies and private-sector actors.
• Develop landscape-level concepts, proposals and investment cases in collaboration with TGI leadership
• Knowledge, learning and communication
• Work closely with TGI’s scientific team to ensure that implementation generates rigorous evidence and learning.
• Contribute to technical reports, policy briefs, case studies and other knowledge products.
• Communicate landscape-level lessons to government, funders, practitioners and wider audiences.
• Support the development of communities of practice around grassland restoration.
• Team leadership and institutional development
• Build and mentor the state teams.
• Establish systems for programme planning, implementation, monitoring and learning across landscapes.
• Advanced degree in natural resource management, ecology, environmental sciences, rural development, development studies, geography, public policy, social sciences or a related field.
• Typically 15 years of relevant professional experience, including substantial experience working at landscape, programme or institutional scale.
• Demonstrated experience in landscape restoration, natural resource management, conservation, rural development, climate/environment programmes or related fields.
• Strong experience working with state or national government institutions and public programmes.
• Experience designing and managing multi-partner programmes across multiple geographies.
• Experience with resource mobilisation, proposal development and/or managing donor-funded programmes.
• Understanding of grassland ecology, or experience of working in rainfed area or dryland ecosystems is required.
• Experience working with rural communities, local institutions and landscape-level governance systems is desirable.

13 October 2026

November 15, 2026

Full-time

Bangalore