How to apply for Community Partnerships & Funding Manager

About Kambo Energy Group

Kambo Energy Group is a certified minority-owned social enterprise founded in 2009. It partners with utilities, governments, and Indigenous and Tribal Nations to deliver energy, transportation, and housing programs. Community Power, its Indigenous housing and energy division, has worked with more than 70 Indigenous Nations and organizations over 15 years.

About the role

This role manages partnerships and funding for Community Power, Kambo's Indigenous housing and energy division. You work with Nation leadership, housing teams, residents, funders, and delivery partners to turn housing priorities into scopes, budgets, funding strategies, and coordinated implementation. The work directly connects community needs to funded, completed home retrofit projects.

A typical day

A typical day might include a call with a Nation housing team to refine a project scope, drafting or revising a funding application, and coordinating with a delivery partner on timelines. You would also track reporting deadlines across active funding agreements and update internal teams on partnership status. Exact routines are not stated in the job details, so ask about team structure and weekly rhythms in the interview.

Who Kambo Energy Group is looking for

• Experience navigating funding programs and writing or assembling funding applications for housing, energy, or community infrastructure projects.
• Track record building and maintaining partnerships with Indigenous Nations, governments, utilities, or funders.
• Ability to translate community priorities into defined scopes, realistic budgets, and funding strategies.
• Comfort working remotely and coordinating across multiple partners, timelines, and reporting requirements.

Tips for this application

• Name specific funding programs you have navigated (federal, provincial, utility, or philanthropic) and the dollar amounts involved.
• Describe partnerships you have held with Indigenous Nations or organizations, including how you handled consultation and consent processes.
• Reference Community Power by name and show you understand it is Kambo's Indigenous housing and energy division, not a general program.
• Quantify outcomes: number of projects funded, total funding secured, number of Nations or partners worked with.
• Explain how you handle remote coordination with Nation leadership, housing teams, and delivery partners across time zones.

What to cover in your cover letter

['Your direct experience securing funding for housing or energy projects, with specific programs and amounts.', 'How you have built or maintained partnerships with Indigenous Nations or Tribal organizations.', 'Your approach to turning community-identified needs into scopes, budgets, and funding plans.', "Why Community Power's model of partnering exclusively with Indigenous Nations fits your background."]

Research before applying

• Read about Kambo's three in-house programs: Empower Me, Community Power, and the Home Upgrades Program.
• Look up Community Power's history: 15 years, 70-plus Indigenous Nations and organizations, thousands of assessments.
• Identify specific funding sources Kambo or similar organizations use for Indigenous housing and energy retrofits.
• Check Kambo's partnerships with utilities and governments to understand the funding landscape this role operates in.

Likely interview topics

Based on the job description, expect questions about:

• Walk through a funding application you led from community priority to secured funding. What was the scope, budget, and result?
• How do you work with Nation leadership and housing teams to set priorities without imposing outside agendas?
• Describe a time a funding application was rejected. What did you change and what was the outcome?
• How do you coordinate multiple funders, delivery partners, and reporting deadlines on one project?
• What do you know about Community Power's work with the 70-plus Nations it has partnered with, and how would you add to it?

Common mistakes to avoid

• Treating this as a generic partnerships or fundraising role without addressing Indigenous housing and energy specifically.
• Claiming relationships with Indigenous communities without concrete examples of work, consent, and outcomes.
• Focusing only on securing money and ignoring the project design, budgeting, and delivery coordination parts of the role.