Impact Partnerships & Delivery Lead

Expo City Dubai; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Expo City Dubai invites applications for a Partnerships Manager & Projects Delivery role within Environment Programs on a temporary contract. You will lead end-to-end proposals, manage relationships with government authorities, donors and partners, and coordinate across Terra Impact portfolios.

You will release specialist capacity by removing administrative friction, maintain pipelines and budgets, and oversee delivery governance while supporting business development and event engagements.

Qualifications

• Proven proposal / bid development and project management in a development, government‑advisory or consulting context (essential).
• Strong writing and the ability to structure a persuasive, compliant technical‑financial proposal.
• Strong understanding of the environment, water and climate sector priorities, articulate priorities, issues and identify gaps, passionate about impact‑oriented development projects.
• Comfort with client relationships in government, institutional, corporate and NGO settings alike.
• Environmental, biodiversity, nature‑based solutions, capacity building, fungi, pollinators and/or geospatial knowledge to adequately represent the portfolio.
• Organised, deadline‑driven, able to manage several delivery workstreams and bids in parallel.
• Comfortable with contract mobilisation and delivery governance: budgets, procurement, subcontractor coordination and risk registers, alongside proposal and pipeline work.

Responsibilities

• Lead proposal development end-to-end: structure, write and coordinate competitive technical and financial proposals for opportunities across the Terra Impact portfolio.
• Manage client and funder interaction — acting as a consistent point of contact and building trusted relationships with partners (e.g. government authorities, international donors, multi-lateral development banks).
• Position the portfolio’s offer: translate technical capability into clear, funder-appropriate value propositions and capability statements.
• Maintain the opportunity pipeline and CRM discipline; RfP’s, grant calls, donors, track deadlines, requirements and submission logistics.
• Coordinate partnerships and consortium arrangements with universities, firms and implementation partners for bids.
• Support positioning at events, pitches and partner meetings with prepared materials.
• Lead contract mobilisation for new awards: project plans, timelines, risk registers and delivery governance.
• Monitor budgets, procurement and subcontractor coordination across live contracts.

Skills

Proposal development

Project management

Stakeholder management

Bid writing

Governance

Tools

CRM

Job description

Expo City Dubai invites applications for a Partnerships Manager & Projects Delivery role within Environment Programs on a temporary contract. You will lead end-to-end proposals, manage relationships with government authorities, donors and partners, and coordinate across Terra Impact portfolios.

You will release specialist capacity by removing administrative friction, maintain pipelines and budgets, and oversee delivery governance while supporting business development and event engagements.