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 le

📌 Landscape Lead – The Grasslands Initiative (Italia)
🏢 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
📍 Italia