At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage the CASA portfolio to support climate negotiations and capacity-building for vulnerable countries.
- Company: Join a mission-driven organisation tackling global climate challenges through collaborative programmes.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and the chance to make a real impact.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth and to contribute to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Why this job: Shape programme delivery in a dynamic environment while working with diverse partners.
- Qualifications: Experience in climate change, project management, and stakeholder engagement is essential.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
Overview
In this role you will manage the CASA portfolio to support climate negotiations and capacity-building for climate-vulnerable countries.
You’ll coordinate with DESNZ, technical partners, and consortium members to ensure timely delivery and effective governance.
You will anticipate risks, oversee mobilisation, and ensure financial controls and value for money.
The work supports Palladium’s mission to address global climate challenges through multi-partner programmes.
This is an opportunity to shape programme delivery in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
Responsibilities
- Portfolio coordination and stakeholder management with DESNZ, technical partners, and consortium members
- Represent the programme in meetings and provide progress updates
- Maintain clear communication to resolve issues and sustain momentum
- Lead or support portfolio work planning and delivery to meet milestones
- Oversee mobilisation, onboarding, and implementation planning
- Governance management including delivery meetings, action tracking, and decision logs
- Identify delivery risks and mitigation actions, escalating when needed
- Prepare concise, evidence-based updates for reports
- Line manage project team members and provide direction
- Align technical, operational, finance and MEL inputs for joined-up activities
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture across geographies
- Support resource planning by identifying capacity gaps
- Oversee budgets, forecasts and expenditure with finance
- Manage contract, procurement and partner administration processes
- Maintain audit-ready records and ensure compliance
- Apply value for money in budgeting and procurement decisions
- Key requirements
- Strong academic background or commensurate experience in climate change, international development, climate governance, policy, or programme management
- Experience managing complex donor-funded programmes or portfolios in climate, environment, governance, or TA contexts
- Strong project and portfolio management skills including workplanning, mobilisation, milestones, risk management
- Experience coordinating multiple partners and onboarding, contracting, procurement and performance tracking
- Strong financial and commercial management including budgeting, forecasting, expenditure tracking, value for money, compliance
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship management with government clients and partners
- Strong written and verbal communication for concise reports and briefings
- Highly organised, proactive and solutions-focused in fast-paced environments
- Collaborative and adaptive working style with cross-team effectiveness
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
- Willingness to join full-time from January 2027 if awarded
- stakeholder engagement
- problem-solving
- collaboration
- portfolio management
- project mobilisation and onboarding
- risk management and mitigation
Portfolio Manager - CASA 3 in London employer: Palladium Group
GISI Consulting Group is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that prioritises equity, diversity, and inclusion. As a Junior Systems Administrator Consultant, you will have the opportunity to work remotely in the UK, contributing to impactful projects while enjoying professional growth through continuous learning and collaboration with a global team of experts. With a commitment to creating a safer and more sustainable world, GISI CG provides a supportive environment where your skills can flourish and make a meaningful difference.
