This role is remote and full-time, and reports directly to the CEO, while working in frequent collaboration with Loowatt Ltd’s lean team that includes commercial, marketing, product, impact measurement, grant-writing and finance functions, as well as the executive teams of Loowatt MG and Kaloola. Our management culture is results-driven with KPIs tracked against a shared master plan. We value transparency, integrity, frankness, rolling up sleeves to get any job done, and providing employees a healthy work-life balance.

Candidates will likely need to travel in Sub-Saharan Africa and other regions at least 6 times a year, and to London approximately quarterly for face-to-face team meetings.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop an understanding of the sanitation sector in Africa, especially for non-sewered urban settlements and humanitarian response settings.
• Develop a deep understanding of Loowatt’s products and systems, its service company business models in emerging markets, their pathways to profitability, and financial gaps.
• Develop strategies for market development and entry in new regions, including exploration and scoping both in currently active and new countries.
• Map and maintain a mapping of the funding landscape, identifying alignments between the scale-up requirements and potential funding sources.
• Maintain a multi-year funding pipeline that will support existing and future servicing partners’ required investments in CAPEX to enable growth.
• Maintain and build excellent relationships with funders, prospective funders and contracting entities, notably municipalities and government, through networking, staying in touch, and managing external communications with support from the marketing team
• Support development, refinement and maintenance of the CRM tool that tracks these relationships.
• Lead a lean funding applications team that produces and submits top-quality written and visual communications, both at the application and reporting stages.
• Support our overseas partners with funding applications, local municipal tenders and partnership agreements, including reviewing documents, providing advice, and supporting contract negotiations where required
• Engage in discussions with a wide variety of stakeholders to support blended financing initiatives, results-based funding schemes, cross-subsidies, and other models that will enhance and expand sanitation service delivery across Africa’s informal settlements and other underserved sectors
• Attend strategic sector conferences and networking events for the business, including making presentations to both private and public audiences

How to Apply:

Candidates are requested to upload a CV and Covering Letter and answer a short questionnaire at the link below. Interested applicants should review this full specification including the Ideal Candidate Profile below.

The recruitment process includes 3 interviews which will require circa 2.5 hours of in-person and/or virtual meetings, and 2 hours of preparation for those shortlisted after the first interview. The selection process is targeted for conclusion within 4 weeks from the submission deadline.

Deadline for applications: October 27th, 2026

Ideal Candidate Profile:

Our ideal candidate profile possesses many of the following traits and experiences:

• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills, ethical integrity and curiosity, who takes joy in networking and maintaining relationships
• Deep belief in Loowatt’s mission to provide high-quality sanitation to underserved populations – and ambition to do this at scale
• A good public speaker, comfortable in role as a figurehead for the business’s impactful purpose
• 10-15 years working in international development fundraising and/or project finance
• Experience working in government contracts and/or municipal service delivery partnerships
• A strong track record in obtaining grants, DFI funding, CSI funding, investments, contracts, partnerships, and other sources of finance for enterprises delivering essential services such as sanitation, water, and adjacent fields
• Robust financial literacy including financial modelling experience to support developing and iterating business models including sales and services, and the skills to develop corresponding strategies such as blended finance
• Fluent (native level) English proficiency, and ideally bilingual French-English, with, at minimum, working proficiency in conversational French
• Experience of working in Africa, and ideally, with African utility sectors including government stakeholders and structures
• Experience working with major organisations in the WASH sector, humanitarian relief, or adjacent fields
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a senior business leadership role, including managing teams, and developing strategic partnerships to drive growth