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 les

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