Manager, Governance - Conflict & Stabilisation

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 role provides an exciting opportunity to join our team in London to work on our conflict and stabilization portfolio. As a key supplier for FCDO, this position offers opportunities to learn and contribute to the development of the portfolio alongside an experienced team.

Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with the Director for Conflict and Stabilisation support the identification, assessment, and pursuit of new business and the analysis of prospects (go or no-go) for winning targeted opportunities.
• Identifies, builds and maintains relationships with partners and consultants that provide technical expertise to new opportunities and programmes.
• Lead procurement activities, focusing on our commitment to building diverse supply chains.
• Contributes to research, analysis and publication of technical reports, case studies, policy and programme approaches, and results summaries on topics related to expanding existing lines of business.
• Works with others across Palladium to provide and build technical capability.
• Contributes technical input to the design, planning and the delivery of proposals and projects.
• Leads elements of technical work in collaboration with the Senior Manager and Project Director. Ensures quality and completion.
• Manages tracking and documenting of project deliverables.
• Identifies and implements new technical approaches and ways of working as projects evolve.
• Manages operational activities (including start-up, close-down, and maintenance of a live project) associated with the various aspects of the life cycle of a project.
• Reviews and ensures quality, prior to final approval, the processing of invoices from consultants, subcontractors, and vendors for a timely submission in accordance with project requirements and Palladium procedures.
• Develops reports, budgets, workplans, proposals and other outputs for internal and external stakeholders.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Proven ability to manage and train people.
• Proven experience identifying and applying complex programme management processes.
• Proven experience building partner relationships and networks.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to interact professionally with culturally diverse staff, clients, and consultants.
• Demonstrated ability to work as an effective team lead in a complex and fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (in English) as demonstrated by speaking engagements and/or contributions to written documents.
• Financial acumen and the ability to generate, interpret, and analyse financial reports and forecasts using Excel and other financial reporting/forecasting systems as demonstrated by experience.
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous tasks and/or complex projects/assignments.
• Experience working on developing country issues and/or contexts.
• Ability to travel and work in developing countries for extended periods of time and sometimes at short notice.

Required Skills:

• Experience working within an international organization or business.
• Experience supporting work implementing donor-funded projects.
• Experience working in a developing country or in a project-based environment.
• Experience with conceptualizing and making presentations, both in-person and virtually.
• Experience networking across the development community, including with donors, implementing partners, and developing country organizations and governmental institutions.
• Professional working proficiency in another language, with priority given to Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

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.

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.