DeputyChief of Party, CATALYZE
About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop anddeliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around theglobe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; buildenduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems toaddress global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diversestaff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
This Opportunity:
CATALYZE is a $250M globalcontract structured in a Pay-For-Results fashion, managed by Palladium's U.S.Business Unit out of Washington, D.C. CATALYZE intends to leverage USAID'sinvestment significantly, using the governments' resources to mobilize billionsof private capital for development purposes throughout underserved communities,geographies and sectors globally using blended finance solutions over aneight-year period (2019 - 2027). The role requires support to the Chief ofParty to manage and oversee the portfolio of existing, innovative sub-projects,conducting business development to design new programs, and winding downcertain CATALYZE Activities concurrently.
CATALYZE is a framework contractrepresenting a compilation of sub-projects and teams (also known as Activities,or "Buy-ins") overseen and enabled by a 12-member management team, providingtechnical and managerial, monitoring, evaluation and learning andcommunications support to all programs. This centralized management team is ledby the Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party and is based out of Washington,DC. The role will supervise and supportthe success of the 12 CATALYZE Activities and
Teams currently operational,including:
- CATALYZE Americas Partnership for Enterprise Prosperity (APEP), covering 10 countries in Latin America
- CATALYZE Asia Social Protection - Indonesia
- CATALYZE Asia Social Protection - Philippines
- CATALYZE Early Child Care and Education (ECCE) global work (Africa, India, Latin America)
- CATALYZE Edufinance Africa, covering seven countries in Africa
- CATALYZE Edufinance Latin America, covering four countries in Latin America
- CATLAYZE Engines of Growth Program covering six countries in the Western Balkans
- CATALYZE Finance for Resilience in the Sahel
- CATALYZE Iraq Access to Finance
- CATALYZE Market Systems for Growth (MS4G) Ethiopia
- CATALYZE Private Sector Development (PSD) in Sri Lanka
- CATALYZE Women's Economic Empowerment
Location and Compensation:
The position is based in Palladium'sWashington D.C. office.
For our prospective employees in the United States, please notethat the full-time equivalent annual base salary for this position is expectedto range from $116,000 to $174,000, successful candidates may also be eligiblefor additional, variable incentive compensation dependent on the role. Forpart-time employees, the salary will be prorated based on the actual number ofhours worked.
Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based onvarious factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education,experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium's business ororganizational needs.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the compensationfor this position, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We value yourinterest in our company and appreciate the opportunity to discuss thisopportunity with you.
You and Your Career:
If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you haveexpertise in global project leadership, USAID, and blended finance, we areinterested in hearing from you.
We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunitiesfrom the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources,and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!
Reporting and Supervision:
The Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP)will report to and support the CATALYZE Chief of Party in serving as overallresponsible party to deliver the stated objectives and targets for all CATALYZEmanagement (finance, operations, compliance) and technical performance. Therole supports team members in the Washington, D.C. office, throughout the U.S.and globally, and closely liaises with our client (USAID), private sectorpartners and international and local stakeholders, in D.C. and globally, asrequired.
PrimaryDuties and Responsibilities:
Overall Management
- Support Chief of Party in managingCATALYZE in line with the highest standards of project managementexcellence. Serve as Acting Chiefof Party as required
- Support Activity Team Leads and ProjectDirectors plan, problem-solve for performance issues and execute as neededto ensure operational, financial and compliance success in CATALYZEActivity and overall contract management
- Advise Activity Teams to participate inquarterly and ad hoc internal technical and managerial reviews, as well asproject evaluations
- Lead the process by which Palladiumdevelops reports to USAID and invoices award fee associated with allActivities
- Liaise on behalf of CATALYZE withPalladium's corporate Finance, Legal and Compliance teams and/or corporateinitiatives as required, in support of efficient work of Activity teams
Staff Supervision
- Oversee and supervise Activity Team Leads(equivalent to Project Directors) on a set of CATALYZE buy-ins, to ensurefluid operations, financial, compliance and technical excellence in linewith U.S. government, USAID and Palladium requirements
- Support the Team Leads plan for andmanage human resource issues on the Activities, including the completionof the annual performance review processes
- Serve as back-up supervisor for COPreports
Technical Leadership
- Support Activity Team Leads and ProjectDirectors problem-solve as needed to ensure technical, operational, andfinancial success in project management
- Conduct site visits, participate inevents, and/or oversee technical assignments in the field for CATALYZE andpotentially across Palladium on topics such as inclusive finance, digitalplatform development, supply chain traceability, risk management, businessaccelerators, market systems development, private sector engagement,Advisory
- Services/transaction and financial institution training, amongother relevant topics
- Contribute to research, analysis, evaluation,writing and publication of project reports, technical studies, casestudies, and program approaches, to capture lessons learned, demonstratethought leadership and help teams put in place adaptive management. Share these lessons and learningsinternally and externally across CATALYZE Activities
- Support Activity Teams by ensuringquality control on project deliverables (e.g. Scopes of Objectives,Performance Work
- Statements, Annual Work Plans, budgeting, progressreports, financial.