Seeking a determined volunteer with a heart for Africa to help small farmers. Join us as a researcher and grant writer to build on our 2025 and 2026 FCDO/UK Aid funding. Help create a vital pipeline of bids to scale our impact.
What difference will you make?
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a project to provide groundwater maps to guide where wells in Ethiopia are drilled and dug - to help drive down risks and costs and make resources go further.
What are we looking for?
The ideal volunteer for this role would be someone who really cares about Africa first and foremost and wants to help small farmers.
Your technical skills at writing will also be very helpful, particularly if you have grant writing experience.
No knowledge of AI is required.
Are you able to share work and both give and take constructive & positive feedback ?
Can you help organise us to build a nice pipe line of applications in an orderly manner ?
Are you flexible, if a donor suddenly asks for a last minute bid from us ? (Incidentally we try to avoid this, but when it happens, can you smile ? -)
What will you be doing?
We looking for a passionate person who can collaborate with us, and research and help us set up a grant writing pipeline, and write grants.
We want to approach corporates and foundations, and family offices to requesting support for our Artificial Intelligence groundwater mapping project, for groundwater detection, that we are working on with university partners, in Ethiopia, and remotely in the USA and UK and Czech Republic.
Our work has a direct relationship to climate change and poverty reduction mitigation. We need someone experienced, who can supply a well thought out plans, and strategies.
We have two powerful funding databases, but also we would like to develop networks of our own.
We want to develop our "A list & B list" of possible grant sources - including European agencies, and private foundations.
We especially want to develop relations with family offices.
We already have financial support from Czech and UK governments and indirect support from Ethiopian and US governments. We also have a range of small supporters.
We hold regular meetings with on-going support.
We are a listening organisation.