Location: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore

About the role

We are looking for a dynamic personality to drive sustained growth across Practical Action in Asia by expanding and deepening partnerships, strengthening proposal quality, and converting a robust pipeline into signed, high-quality awards. This role is the custodian of growth discipline. Overseeing the full opportunity lifecycle from market sensing and consortium building, through proposal development, to submission quality and win-rate optimisation across existing and new products and markets, using an explicit Ansoff Matrix lens.

About you

You have experience in business development, partnerships, or growth leadership with a proven track record of GBP 1–5 million wins with institutional donors. You demonstrate a high degree of cultural competence in diverse environments and effectively navigate and adapt to multicultural contexts. You demonstrate strong intercultural communication skills, willingness and enthusiasm to work in challenging and difficult situations and have the ability to combine Strategic thinking, Commercial realism, Process discipline and Relationship credibility.

Why join us?

The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.

About us

Practical Action exists to change the systems that keep people in poverty and vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, nature loss and pollution. We work alongside communities to build resilient livelihoods and thriving, inclusive societies.

Our Values

We are People Centred, striving to create an equal, fair, accessible, dignified and respectful environment for everyone we work with – from colleagues and communities, to supporters, suppliers and stakeholders.

We are Impact Driven, existing to make a positive difference, so everything we do is driven by our energy to create lasting value for the people and communities we serve.

We are Transparent and trustworthy, acting with integrity, honesty, and strong ethics, building mutual trust with everyone we work with to achieve the highest standards.

We are Innovative, and champion learning, curiosity and fresh thinking, bringing local knowledge to create global impact.

We are Resilient changemakers working for sustainable development, meeting challenges head-on, and evolving through the lessons learnt.

Additional information

We treat all applications for employment fairly regardless of gender, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, caste, tribe, belief, age, marital status, pregnancy, caring responsibilities, sexual orientation, or disability.

Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing.

To ensure that Practical Action meets its obligations of safer recruitment, appointment to posts within Practical Action will be subject to a satisfactory criminal check. Criminal checks will be conducted for all roles.

The successful applicant must already have the right to both live and work in India and should be willing and able to travel.

Closing date for applications: 14 April 2026

Submit a cover letter along with the duly filled standard application form to asia.hr@practicalaction.org