Open Roles at BURN

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 funding opportunities aligned to BURN's strategic priorities and programme portfolio.
• Assess funder fit, eligibility, and strategic alignment before committing proposal development resources.
• Maintain a structured capture process, tracking opportunities from identification through submission and award

Proposal Development

• Lead the writing, structuring, and quality assurance of grant proposals and concept notes across all programme areas.
• Translate BURN's technical operations, impact data, and strategic priorities into compelling, funder-appropriate narratives.
• Develop programme logframes, theories of change, results frameworks, and budgets in close collaboration with technical and finance teams.
• Manage proposal timelines and internal review processes to CEO sign-off, ensuring deadlines are met without compromising quality

Funder Relationship Management

• Build and maintain relationships with programme officers and key contacts at priority funders
• Represent BURN at donor engagements, pre-proposal meetings, and sector convenings as appropriate
• Identify and leverage warm introduction pathways through BURN's partner network.
• Position BURN proactively with funders ahead of open windows, including through targeted expressions of interest and strategic communications

Team & Process Development

• Contribute to building BURN's internal grants capability, including documentation, templates, and institutional knowledge.
• Coordinate with technical leads across operations, impact, carbon, and programmes to gather inputs efficiently for proposals.
• Help define and refine the grants team's processes, cadences, and tools as the function scales

Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of institutional funding experience, with a demonstrable track record of securing grants of $5M+ from bilateral, multilateral, or major foundation sources
• Experience working across the full funding cycle: opportunity identification, proposal development, award negotiation and contracting
• Familiarity with the funder landscape relevant to energy access, clean cooking, climate adaptation, gender, or manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Experience in or alongside private sector organisations operating in development contexts.
• Comfortable using AI tools to accelerate opportunity scanning, proposal drafting, and research synthesis and able to apply them critically, knowing where human judgement remains essential.
• Exceptional written communication, ability to write with precision, clarity, and persuasion for sophisticated institutional audiences.
• Strong analytical capability, comfortable working with programme data, impact metrics, logframes, and budgets.
• Strategic thinker who can distinguish high-value opportunities from noise and build a coherent portfolio thesis.
• Organised and self-directed, able to manage multiple proposals in parallel without sacrificing quality.
• Relationship-oriented, understands that grant success is built over time, not just at submission
• Exposure to climate finance grant windows (GCF, GEF, Green Climate Fund readiness programmes).
• Experience with EU grant frameworks or FCDO programme funding.
• Familiarity with results-based financing, programme-based approaches, or challenge fund structures.
• Experience working in or with manufacturing, hardware, or technology companies in an impact context.
• Prior experience building or improving a grants function, not just executing within an established one

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About the role

• The Senior Business Applications Officer will lead support, optimisation, and implementation of new modules for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central within the ERP function. The role is heavily focused on manufacturing, planning, and advanced warehouse modules, ensuring system efficiency, data integrity, and seamless cross-functional integration. Reporting to the Global Head of ERP, the position plays a critical role in strengthening ERP performance, supporting users, and driving continuous system improvements across the organisation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Handle Microsoft Dynamics Business Central system Support and new module implementation.
• Be the lead in Manufacturing, planning and advanced warehouse Modules -Configuration, Deployment, training, Support, new development and documentation.
• Assist in the development of custom improvements and new modules for our ERP
• Assist in the optimisation of BURN’s ERP system.
• Assist in updating and managing the ERP system to ensure it provides the company with proper business solutions and accurate results.
• Assist in Coordination and managing the organisation’s use of master files, roles, user views, data control, reporting, and data integrity.
• Aid in designing and running monthly/quarterly reports to test data integrity and accuracy within the system.
• Track and document the status of all system changes, tests, and upgrade tasks based on the provided SOP and ERP Documentation template designed already.
• Assist in Integration developments and support
• Handle JET reports support for users
• Handle any other task assigned
• Update and maintain ERP Issue Tracker
• Documentation of ERP user manuals
• Assist in preparing information and research materials; create and maintain PowerPoint presentations.
• Take notes and memos during meetings; type documents, drafts, and reports; sort and manage files

Skills and Experience

• Deployment and support of manufacturing, planning module and advanced warehousing in a large-scale company on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 V13 and any version upwards.
• Understanding and experience in the use of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 V13 and upwards to the current Business Central V27 Year 2026
• Knows both Functional process, Administration, and entry-level Development of MS Business Central
• Understanding of Basic SQL
• Understand the NAV Project documentation using the sure step methodology
• Understand version control in NAV development
• Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-directed and able to work without supervision
• Energetic and eager to tackle new projects and ideas
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Certification is an added advantage

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Enterprise Technology Strategy & Budget — Set and execute the technology strategy for internal systems and IT operations across all markets. Own the IT and internal software budget: licensing, cloud hosting, hardware, vendor contracts, and staffing. (Connectivity/SIM budget sits with Connected Products.)
• Internal Tools — Build, Buy, or Outsource — Hold full authority over the make/buy/outsource decision for every internal tool: ERP and NAV integration, CRM and agent apps (Buisy, Nexus), ESS, intranet and knowledge base, helpdesk tooling. Deliver through the Internal-Tools Delivery team — integration of bought tools, internal builds, management of outsourced development, QA, maintenance, and SLA adherence.
• Demand Interface & Product Owners — Receive prioritised demand from CPO-side Product Managers through the quarterly prioritisation council; size capacity and commit a roadmap. Maintain 1–2 Product Owners who translate roadmaps into backlogs and acceptance criteria. Report delivery against SLAs.
• Infrastructure, NOC & Enterprise Systems — Design, implement and run 24/7 IT infrastructure across all factories and offices — networks, servers, endpoint security, cloud services, and the Network Operations Centre. Ensure availability and integration of enterprise business systems (ERP, finance, sales, HR). Provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service for Connected Products with defined SLAs.
• Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Risk — Own the security stack and its active management (DLP, endpoint protection, identity alerting, disk encryption, awareness training), data-protection compliance (GDPR and applicable local law, e.g. the Kenya Data Protection Act), the IT risk register, business continuity and disaster recovery. The security baseline applies to both organisations.
• Asset & Estate Governance — Own the asset register as the company's system of record for the device estate. Reconcile the endpoint estate (currently ~1,800 devices visible to endpoint protection against ~400 reconciled records) and institute device-lifecycle management with IT Operations.
• IT Governance & Service Management — Establish and enforce governance frameworks, policies and standards; chair the IT Steering Committee; run the helpdesk service model and the ITSM build-out (ticketing, SLAs, escalation paths, user lifecycle) supporting staff across all markets.
• Vendor & Partner Management — Manage software, infrastructure and IT-services vendors and outsourced development partners for quality, cost-effectiveness and alignment. (Connectivity vendors — MNOs, IoT SIM providers — sit with Connected Products.)
• Team Leadership & Organisational Development — Build and lead the Information Systems department (~35 people) through the Head of Internal-Tools Delivery, the Head of IT, and a Project Manager / Chief of Staff of the role holder's choosing. Confirm or recruit into acting roles; develop and retain the team through organisational change.

First-Year Delivery Book (indicative)
The role inherits a live portfolio of ~45 open projects, including:

• Asset estate reconciliation — close the gap between ~1,800 endpoint-visible devices and ~400 reconciled register records; establish the system of record.
• ERP resilience — the ERP is locally hosted today with backup not started; deliver backup infrastructure and a tested disaster-recovery plan.
• M365 licence right-sizing — audit and optimise a ~$250K/yr licence estate: counts, tiers, and alternatives.
• Telephony replacement & CX automation — migrate off a ~$160K/yr telephony platform; deliver IVR, robocall automation, and call-centre enablement across four markets.
• ITSM & user lifecycle — ticketing standards, SLAs, incident and escalation processes, device management.
• Cloud & monitoring — AWS infrastructure-as-code migration, AD migration, unified server/network/M365 monitoring, server-room power redundancy.
• Security stack completion — DLP and policies, security-audit action execution, active endpoint protection management, identity alerting, disk encryption, and awareness campaigns.

Skills and Experience

• Senior enterprise-technology leader (CIO-shaped) with a track record running both delivery organisations and IT operations at multi-site, multi-country scale.
• Strong sourcing and vendor muscle: has made and managed build/buy/outsource decisions with measurable cost outcomes.
• SLA-driven service-management discipline; comfortable operating as an internal service provider to a demanding product organisation.
• Deep security, governance, and risk credentials; has owned a risk register, BC/DR posture, and compliance programmes.
• A distributed-systems / SRE background is a strong advantage for the infrastructure-as-a-service model.
• Proven builder and retainer of teams through restructuring.
• Senior enterprise-technology leadership spanning delivery and IT operations, multi-site / multi-country.
• Build/buy/outsource sourcing and vendor management with measurable cost outcomes.
• Security, governance, and risk ownership - risk register, data protection, BC / DR.
• SLA-driven service management; able to operate as an internal service provider.
• Team building and retention through organisational change.
• Distributed-systems / SRE background
• Hardware-attached / IoT / PAYGO business experience