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Chief of Party, CATALYZE

Palladium
United States, D.C., Washington
Nov 05, 2024

Chief of Party, CATALYZE

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and
deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the
globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build
enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to
address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over
90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse
staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

CATALYZE, a $250M global USAID contract, is in search of a Chief
of Party (COP) to serve during the project's final phase (2025 - 2027) and its
transition to management by the USAID Center of Education.

CATALYZE is a global contract 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's investment significantly, using the
governments' resources to mobilize billions of private capital for development
purposes throughout underserved communities, geographies and sectors globally
using blended finance solutions over an eight-year period (2019 -
2027). CATALYZE is also an important learning mechanism for USAID and is
meant to support USAID missions to increase their understanding of how to
design and manage private sector engagement and pay for results programming
that mobilizes private capital. The role
requires management and oversight of a portfolio of existing, innovative
sub-projects, supervision of learning and evaluation work for the sub-projects,
business development to design new programs, and winding down certain CATALYZE
Activities concurrently.

CATALYZE is a framework contract representing a compilation of
sub-projects and teams (also known as Activities, or "Buy-ins") overseen and
enabled by a 15-member management team, providing technical and managerial,
monitoring, evaluation and learning and communications support to all programs.
This centralized management team is led by the Chief of Party and Deputy Chief
of Party and is based out of Washington, DC. The role will supervise and support the success of the operational 12
CATALYZE Activities and Teams 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
    (technical work ending 12/24)
  • CATALYZE
    Engines of Growth Program covering six countries in the Western Balkans
    (ending 12/24)
  • CATALYZE
    Finance for Resilience in the Sahel (ending 12/24)
  • CATALYZE
    Iraq Access to Finance
  • CATALYZE
    Market Systems for Growth (MS4G) Ethiopia (including Ethiopia Ukraine
    Activity)
  • CATALYZE
    Private Sector Development (PSD) in Sri Lanka
  • CATALYZE
    Women Building Resilience (ending 12/24)

Location and Compensation:

The position is based in Palladium's
Washington D.C. office.

For our prospective employees in the United States, please note
that the full-time equivalent annual base salary for this position is expected
to range from $175,000-$190,000 and successful candidates may also be eligible
for additional, variable incentive compensation dependent on the role. For
part-time employees, the salary will be prorated based on the actual number of
hours worked.

Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based on
various factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education,
experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium's business or
organizational needs.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the compensation
for this position, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We value your
interest in our company and appreciate the opportunity to discuss this
opportunity with you.

You and Your Career:

If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have
expertise in global project leadership, USAID, and blended finance, we are
interested in hearing from you.

We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities
from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources,
and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting Lines:

  • This position will report to the Project Director, CATALYZE
  • This position will directly supervise six CORE team staff and a few Activity Team Leads (equivalent to Project Directors) on CATALYZE buy-ins
  • In collaboration with the
    CORE team, this role will also oversee the performance excellence process
    for all of CATALYZE project staff, including efficient completion of the
    annual performance review processes

Primary
Roles and Responsibilities:

Overall Management

  • Manage the final phase of CATALYZE, including project closure, in line with the highest standards of contract management excellence. Serve as direct liaison with USAID in Washington, D.C., on overall CATALYZE management issues
  • Ensure high quality preparation of all learning and research documents produced by CATALYZE in the final years of project implementation
  • Supervise Key Personnel and Activity Team Leads (Project Director equivalent) plan, problem-solve for performance issues and execute as needed to ensure operational, financial and compliance excellence in CATALYZE Activity and overall contract management
  • Lead preparation of a monthly financial report to Palladium leadership, and support Activity Teams to participate in monthly, quarterly and ad hoc internal technical and financial project reviews
  • Lead the process by which Palladium develops self-evaluations, presentations and invoices related to CATALYZE fixed and award fee
  • Liaise as needed on behalf of CATALYZE with Palladium's corporate Finance, Legal, Human Resources and Compliance teams as required
  • Support new business development and co-creation processes of all new CATALYZE buy-ins to ensure quality/feasible design and rapid creation of all foundational documents

Technical Leadership

  • Support
    Activity Team Leads and Project Directors problem-solve as needed to
    ensure technical, operational, and financial excellence in project
    management and CATALYZE Activity closure
  • Conduct
    site visits, participate in close out and other events, and/or oversee
    technical assignments in the field for CATALYZE on topics such as blended
    finance, early childcare and development, early childhood education,
    business accelerators, gender inclusive finance, private sector
    engagement, Advisory Services/transaction and financial institution
    training, among other relevant topics
  • Contribute
    to excellence in research, analysis, evaluation, writing and publication
    of CATALYZE project reports, technical studies, case studies, and program
    approaches, to capture lessons learned, demonstrate thought leadership and
    help teams put in place adaptive management. Share these lessons and learnings
    internally, with USAID and externally
  • Support
    Activity Teams by ensuring quality control on project deliverables (e.g.
    Assessments, Performance Work Statements, Annual Work Plans, Annual
    Reports, Award Fee Presentations, Close Out Plans, Final Reports/Positive
    Impact Case Studies, Quarterly Reports, budgets, progress reports,
    financial reports, communications, monitoring and evaluation and learning
    documents, award fee presentations, etc.).
  • Support
    Activity teams design and implement innovative grants and
    procurements using pay for results
    methodologies in close coordination with USAID and the private sector
  • Organize
    and participate, as needed, in project/program trainings, conferences,
    webinars, technical workshops and meetings

Client/External Stakeholder Engagement

  • Serve as
    principal liaison with the USAID CATALYZE COR/CO and USAID Activity
    teams. Support Activity Teams
    respond to ad hoc client requests as required
  • Leverage
    public, private and civil society networks to support Activity Teams
    design and implement strategic and innovative approaches to expand project
    impact
  • Support
    teams to identify, build and maintain working relationships with
    international and local consultants and potential employees who can
    provide technical expertise to Activities
  • Represent
    the project and company as needed, participating in outside associations,
    conferences, and symposia

Business Development

  • Support
    the identification, assessment, and pursuit of new opportunities to expand
    the blended finance portfolio and education and child-care-focused new
    work of CATALYZE. Contribute to
    writing and reviewing project designs for new technical work
  • Conduct
    public speaking on behalf of CATALYZE as required to bring on new buy-ins

Essential
Criteria:

  • Heavily
    demonstrated global project management experience managing USAID contracts
    with large sub-award funds
  • Excellent
    client management skills and ability to liaise comfortably with different
    constituencies. USAID client management experience preferred
  • Proven
    written and oral communication skills, including a track record of report
    writing, public presentations (moderator, panelist, keynote) and published
    blogs or articles
  • Demonstrated
    supervisory experience of teams of similar size and scope
  • Financial
    acumen and the ability to interpret and analyze financial reports, develop
    and evaluate financial projections, and match programmatic objectives/work
    plans to costs/budgets
  • Proven
    experience in project closure and project design (including developing
    theories of change, logic/results models or similar design tools, results
    modeling, pricing and other elements of designing projects for development
    impact)
  • Demonstrated
    professional experience in the subjects of blended finance, development
    finance and/or private sector engagement
  • Working experience in the countries and subject areas of remaining
    CATALYZE buy-ins is preferred, especially subjects of primary and
    pre-primary education, childcare, workforce development, gender-lend
    investing, social protection.
  • Additional technical experience in any of the following technical
    subjects is a plus: micro, small, medium enterprise development, private
    sector partnerships, transaction assistance, agricultural value chain
    development/finance, microfinance, digital finance, economic empowerment
    of marginalized groups and communities
  • Sound
    problem-solving and decision-making skills demonstrated in challenging or
    fluid circumstances
  • Demonstrated,
    high level of professionalism, respect and integrity operating within a
    multi-cultural, values-based organization
  • Written
    and spoken fluency in English. Fluency in other foreign languages,
    such as French, Spanish or Arabic, is a plus
  • Travel
    may be required for an estimated 15-20% of time

Equity,
Diversity & Inclusion
- Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and
inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of
society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity,
success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve
diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive
equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal
characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background,
age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous
status.

Should
you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or
you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email
our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will
be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding - We define
Safeguarding as "the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our
people, clients and the communities we work with from harm". We are committed
to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium
are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to
an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a
rigorous due diligence process.

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