Recruitment at Palladium Group

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Leader – Ending Preventable Deaths Support Programme

Job ID: req20973
Location: Nigeria

Project Overview and Role

• Palladium is seeking a Team Leader for the anticipated FCDO-funded Ending Preventable Deaths (EPD) Support Programme, which is expected to be a three-year programme with a budget of £12m. Work is contingent on Palladium’s successful bid for the programme.
• The EPD Support Programme will support FCDO central and country teams to contribute to ending the preventable deaths of mothers, babies, and children by 2030 by strengthening health systems, improving human rights, and enabling healthier environments in 11 flagship countries and 4 countries in protracted crises.
• The support to FCDO central and country teams will come in the form of long-term and short-term technical assistance (TA) through local and international consultants, alongside a strategic flexible fund.
• The direct objective of the TA is to strengthen the capacity of FCDO country teams to influence the policy, legal, and strategic environments needed to make progress on EPD in tandem with the efforts of centrally managed and bilateral country programmes.
• The exact nature of the TA requested in each country will be informed by the bottlenecks and opportunities FCDO identifies in consultation with national governments and local partners.
• The 11 flagship countries are Bangladesh, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and South Sudan.
• The 4 countries in protracted crises are Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
• The Team Leader for the EPD Support Programme will be accountable for the successful implementation of the programme.
• Specifically, s/he will have overall responsibility for leading and overseeing the sourcing of TA needs and the quality execution of TA activities by local teams and consultants. As part of this, the Team Leader will liaise closely with FCDO.
• S/he will ensure timely and high-quality completion of all deliverables; maximise value for money; oversee the achievement of any payment KPIs and logframe outputs and outcomes; and ensure that risks are minimised, company policies are adhered to, and the programme is compliant with FCDO terms and conditions.

Timing and Location:

• This is a full-time position likely to be based in one of the eleven flagship countries. The programme is expected to commence in the second half of 2024 – more precise timing will be made available once the bid is released.

Key Responsibilities of the Position
The Team Leader will act as the central point of leadership for the EPD Support Programme, reporting to a Programme Director based in the UK. The key requirements for the Team Leader are to:

Strategic Leadership:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with FCDO at central and country levels to support TA need identification.
• Work with FCDO teams in the design of long-term and short-term TA assignments, alongside the use of a strategic flexible fund to deliver on EPD targets within case-by-case national and local contexts.
• Manage the Palladium consortium, ensuring proper coordination with and among any partners for the delivery of set activities.
• In collaboration with local teams, coordinate with other EPD Centre of Expertise programmes at the country level to minimise duplicated effort, maximise shared knowledge, and ensure productive working partnerships and complementary workstreams.
• Provide strategic and technical representation of the programme at key meetings and coordination platforms, both nationally and internationally.
• Work closely with the Programme Director to regularly update FCDO on programme performance against the logframe, providing informed and actionable recommendations for any adaptations to delivery, collaborating with FCDO to determine next steps.

Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership to the programme, making sure it delivers against the programme outputs, outcomes, and impacts through well-designed strategic approaches and TA.
• Provide technical and strategic leadership for the EPD Support Programme, including setting key strategic goals in consultation with partners, team members, and FCDO.
• Provide guidance, oversight, and quality assurance for all programme activities, outputs, and deliverables.
• Assume overall responsibility for the effective implementation of workplans to ensure delivery is on time, within budget, meets client and stakeholder expectations, and is contractually compliant.
• Monitor implementation progress; work to resolve issues, as well as manage and mitigate risks; and escalate material issues and risks as appropriate.

Programme and Financial Management:

• Oversee the role of workstream leads in the planning, management, coordination, and delivery of agreed upon outputs and outcomes.
• Oversee the rational, accurate, and value for money-driven costing of TAs. Ensure achievement of financial targets and spend expectations.

Requirements
Key Competencies and Professional Expertise Required:

• Experience in the management of health systems strengthening TA programmes, with proven experience of direct-to-donor programmes. Previous experience delivering TA for FCDO specifically highly desired.
• Subject matter expertise in health systems strengthening, with proven contributions to EPD programming.
• Experience across several of the key subject areas that will be drawn upon for TA support – human rights, gender and equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, healthier environments, including WASH, climate, nutrition, and air quality.
• Proven experience delivering health programming for donors in a Team Leadership or Deputy Team Leadership capacity.
• Excellent leadership, representation, organisational and interpersonal skills, both in-person and remotely.
• Proven experience successfully managing teams to achieve results, including overseeing and quality-assuring the work of TA consultants.
• Written and spoken fluency in English.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Application Process

• Please provide concise answers to the following:
  • Country of domicile
  • Countries in which you have relevant experience, and where at least some in-country presence is possible for you (expenses covered by Palladium)
  • Languages at professional level of fluency (speaking, reading, writing)
  • Desired annual salary (local currency, pre-tax)
• Please provide your CV, with demonstrable expertise in the domains outlined in the ‘Key Responsibilities’ and ‘Key Competencies’ sections, with results achieved and countries worked in documented.

Note

• 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.
• We kindly ask that all interested candidates submit answers to the screening questions alongside a CV to be considered.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Job Title: Digital Communication Specialist

Ref No: req21045
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Propcom+ is a new FCDO-funded eight-year (2023-2030), rural and agricultural market development programme supporting climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture and forestry that benefits people, climate, and nature. The programme is implemented by The Palladium Group, and it aims to transform Nigeria’s rural economy by addressing environmental, social, and economic challenges in the country’s food and land-use system. It will do this by (i) increasing productivity, improving nutrition and food security; (ii) enhancing climate resilience, pursuing lower emissions, and protecting and restoring nature, and (iii) helping to tackle some of Nigeria’s underlying drivers of conflict and insecurity. It does this by working as a ‘market facilitator’, identifying constraints in markets systems and facilitating changes to enable rural markets to work better for the benefit of poor and climate-vulnerable smallholder farmers and rural small-scale entrepreneurs.
• Propcom+ has a target of increasing the incomes and climate resilience of 3.9 million poor and vulnerable people in Nigeria, 50% of whom will be women, through a “3Ps” approach of interlinked components:
  • P1: Scaling-up a focused basket of Proven climate-smart interventions around agricultural and primary processing / storage practices and models to get these adopted by millions of poor and vulnerable smallholder farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs.
  • P2: Building markets by developing and Piloting new business models that improve productivity, enhance resilience to climate change, reduce emissions, and improve nutrition outcomes.
  • P3: Enabling Policies that support a strengthened enabling environment for sustainable food and land-use system.

Purpose

• The Digital Communications and Knowledge Management (KM) Specialist will be responsible for creating engaging online content and work with the Communications Manager to use digital communications channels to raise the visibility of the Propcom+ programme and that of the donor, FCDO.

Reporting and Line Management:

• This post will primarily report to the Communications Manager, and to the Knowledge Management and Dissemination Manager for specific tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• The key responsibilities of the Digital Comms and KM Specialist are detailed below. These are not exhaustive and may change as the programme grows and evolves.
• Digital Communications
• Support the development of digital communications strategy that aligns with the overall communications and knowledge management strategy of the programme.
• Develop and design tailored digital content plans for the programme social media channels including but not limited to X, LinkedIn, Facebook and Youtube and ensure consistency of messaging across channels.
• Curate and source appropriate and compelling content including infographics and videos, while engaging with staff and partners to generate on-demand content.
• Co-design and deliver social media campaigns (in line with the programme campaign calendar) to support the programme’s wider objectives and help raise awareness and drive action on key thematic issues.
• Support with identifying and working with influencers among staff, partners and the wider public across the themes of agriculture, climate change, environmental action, forestry, and biodiversity.
• Plan and produce multimedia and audio-visual content including infographics, short compelling videos and blogs for the programme digital channels and work with the wider programme team to grow an online photo and video library.
• Support the planning and delivery of virtual events organised by the programme such as webinars and X spaces and manage the setup and live streaming of hybrid events.
• Support the development and production of quarterly e-newsletters and other interactive resources on the programme’s digital channels including social media and the programme website.
• Co-manage the programme website and ensure regular updates of relevant content on the website.
• Support in monitoring trends and tracking of engagements on the programme’s digital channels (social media, website, e-newsletter) and to analyse relevant communications data and insights to inform workplans, content curation and quality assurance.
• Knowledge Management
• Support the development and design of communications and knowledge products including but not limited to success stories, blogs, learning papers, case studies, factsheets, etc.
• Liaise with the MERL and KM Managers to harness data and insights to inform design of evidence-based content suitable for the various digital channels, particularly posts for social media.
• Support the planning and delivery of learning events and other knowledge sharing events organised by the programme.
• Contribute to the development/refinement of information management systems (i.e. email systems, electronic and hard-copy filing and retrieval systems, intranet, extranet and other ICT solutions appropriate to Propcom+’s needs) to meet current internal knowledge management and adaptive learning needs.
• Develop monthly/quarterly/yearly work plans with other members of the MERL, Communications and Knowledge Management Team.
• Carry out additional tasks as requested by the Communications and Knowledge Management Managers and the MERL Director.

Required Qualifications

• The Digital Comms and KM Specialist should have: A Degree in a relevant discipline such as Communications or another related field.
• At least 3 years of communications experience in agricultural-related programmes.
• Excellent graphics design skills. Proficiency in the use of various graphics and infographic design apps (E.g. Canva, Adobe Creative Suite) is highly desirable.
• Ability to use basic video editing software tools to produce short videos.
• Proven knowledge and experience in digital content curation and website management.
• Great skills in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (in English) to manage project communications and disseminate project information are required.
• Fluency in speaking and understanding Hausa is an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Finance and Administrative Officer

Ref No: req21043
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Propcom+ is a new FCDO-funded eight-year (2023-2030), rural and agricultural market development program supporting climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture and forestry that benefits people, climate, and nature.
• The program is implemented by The Palladium Group, and it aims to transform Nigeria’s rural economy by addressing environmental, social, and economic challenges in the country’s food and land-use system.
• It will do this by (i) increasing productivity, improving nutrition and food security; (ii) enhancing climate resilience, pursuing lower emissions, and protecting and restore nature, and (iii) helping tackle some of Nigeria’s underlying drivers of conflict and insecurity.
• It does this by working as a ‘market facilitator’, identifying constraints in market systems and facilitating changes to enable rural markets to work better for the benefit of poor and climate-vulnerable smallholder farmers and rural small-scale entrepreneurs.
• Propcom+ has a target of increasing the incomes and climate resilience of 3.9 million poor and vulnerable people in Nigeria, 50% of whom will be women, through a “3Ps” approach of interlinked components:
  • P1: Scaling-up a focused basket of Proven climate-smart interventions around agricultural and primary processing / storage practices and models to get these adopted by millions of poor and vulnerable smallholder farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs.
  • P2: Building markets by developing and Piloting new business models that improve productivity, enhance resilience to climate change, reduce emissions, and improve nutrition outcomes.
  • P3: Enabling Policies that support a strengthened enabling environment for sustainable food and land-use system.

Purpose

• The Finance and Administration Officer (FAO) is responsible for the day-to-day running of the office which includes management of the office resources and coordination of all logistical needs, ensuring timely payment of all invoices and expenses for the Propcom+ program and responsible for the remittance of all statutory payments at the state level related to both vendors, service providers, staff and consultants.
• The FAO will directly manage all office support staff and drivers and will work closely with all state team members to ensure the effective delivery of the program. Where required the FAO will provide support to technical staff to ensure program activities and financial duties are completed in a compliant and timely manner.
• The FAO will work closely with the Finance Manager to ensure effective oversight of the program finances.

Reporting:

• This post will managed by the Regional Policy Lead and will report functionally to the Finance Manager and the Human Resource manager.

Line Management:

• This post would supervise State Driver(s), Office Assistant, intern and any other Staff as may be assigned by programme management.

Key Responsibilities
Finance:

• Preparation of payment vouchers for all transactions ensuring appropriate signing, filing and documentation and the existence of a clear audit trail in line with FCDO and Palladium guidelines.
• Support the Finance Manager in preparation of monthly financial forecasts for the state, including statements of the office Imprest account and requests for funds from the Abuja office.
• Vouching all cheques and getting necessary signatures on each cheque.
• Passing all vouchers to the programme Finance Manager for checking and posting
• Responsible for petty cash and payment out of the petty cash for project purposes.
• Maintaining daily cash balances for each cash account and requesting for cash top up of petty cash whenever the balance is low.
• Updateall financial registersincluding travel advance register, cash and bank registers, cheque registers, recurrent bill register, withholding tax register etc.daily.
• Prepare monthly office running costs analysis.
• Balancing all cash registers and payments against records of cash.
• Liaise with program me bank account officers in respective banks on payment issues.
• Responsible for making bank lodgements for receipts into project bank accounts or for payment into other banks for payees in the case of salaries and other payments.
• Draw up schedules on withholding tax monthly for remittances to appropriate authorities, and ensure prompt remittance of PAYE, WHT and other statutory taxes in line with the tax guidelines.
• Support the programme Senior Finance Officer in the preparation of cash books.
• Coordinate funds/advance retirements, reimbursement and refunds ensuring that advances are promptly retired as at when due.

Administration:

• Office Running – ensure efficient use of all office facilities including vehicles, compliant with Propcom+ policy. Give specific attention to monitoring and analysis of fuel consumption of office vehicles and generators. Oversee housekeeping and stockkeeping of consumable items and ensure necessary supplies are maintained at minimum stock levels, including fuel and provision of staff on front desk/reception duty.
• Structure & Equipment – monitor the integrity of the property and condition of facilities and equipment, inform the proprietor of required repairs, oversee/monitor repairs, and ensure asset labelling and asset register/inventory are up to date.
• Vehicle Running – co-ordinate vehicle movements based on the work schedule for the state team, and ensure all transport provisions for the state office are efficient, effective, and safe:
• Car hire: check the condition of vehicles, tires, seat-belts availability of required vehicle documentation, and the standard of driving (with support from the national office for driver training) all meet minimum requirements.
• Office vehicles: check office drivers are meeting the minimum required standards for vehicle maintenance and driving (to be checked periodically by the national office through driver training), and monitor and analyze fuel, and other consumable items, on a regular basis.
• Ensure that Office Health, Safety, and Security (OHSS) information is displayed in an obvious position in the office in line with the guidelines laid out in the project operations manual.
• Ensure that inventory quantities are adequate for the office by conducting regular inventory checks and timely ordering of supplies.
• Support in the maintenance of fixed assets register by updating the assets register (tag numbers, condition, location, purchase date, repairs, etc.) on a regular basis.
• Close supervisionof contractorsand service providersto ensureproper maintenance of generators, photocopiers, air conditioners, etc. is carried out promptly and to set standards of quality.
• Assist inprocurement, (clarifying specifications, analysing quotations, seeking approval) ensuring that purchases are made according to approved specification, price, quality and quantity.
• Maintain rigorous operations that ensures systems are in place for proper receipt, rotation, and control of programme’s materials.
• Other duties as delegated by the Finance Manager and the senior programme management team.

Working Relationships:

• The  Finance and Admin Officer will report to the Finance Manager.
• S/he will form part of the programme Operations team and be expected to work closely with the Senior Finance Officer, Logistics Officer, and Human Resources Officer. S/he will also be expected to establish and maintain good working relationships with the rest of the Propcom+ team.
• The State Finance and Admin Officer will also be expected to establish and maintain relationships with key account officers in the various banks through whom the programme financial transactions take place.

Teamwork:

• Work as a part of P+ team towards delivering programme results.
• Deploy consultative approach while working with both team members, consultants, and partners.
• foster good relationship among team members and demonstrate through attitude maintenance of a respectful workplace.
• Whenever tasked with management responsibility, ensure that good management practices are deployed.

Required Qualifications

• The chosen candidate should have a Degree In Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or any Related Field,
• Substantial (7+ years) demonstrable, and professional experience, in supporting donor relations and grants management (e.g. with institutional humanitarian and development donors);
• Good personal organizational skills, including time management, and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Willingness to travel to field offices and work in remote environments according to travel requirements.
• Risk mitigation knowledge
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational and teamwork skills.
• Good cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Excellent computer skills, particularly in the use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, and managing resources efficiently, holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: MERL Specialist

Ref No: req21044
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Propcom+ is a new FCDO-funded eight-year (2023-2030), rural and agricultural market development programme supporting climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture and forestry that benefits people, climate, and nature.
• The programme is implemented by The Palladium Group, and it aims to transform Nigeria’s rural economy by addressing environmental, social, and economic challenges in the country’s food and land-use system.
• It will do this by (i) increasing productivity, improve nutrition and food security; (ii) enhancing climate resilience, pursue lower emissions, and protect and restore nature, and (iii) helping to tackle some of Nigeria’s underlying drivers of conflict and insecurity.
• It does this by working as a ‘market facilitator’, identifying constraints in markets systems and facilitating changes to enable rural markets to work better for the benefit of poor and climate-vulnerable smallholder farmers and rural small-scale entrepreneurs.
• Propcom+ has a target of increasing the incomes and climate resilience of 3.9 million poor and vulnerable people in Nigeria, 50% of whom will be women, through a “3Ps” approach of interlinked components:
  • P1: Scaling-up a focused basket of Proven climate-smart interventions around agricultural and primary processing / storage practices and models to get these adopted by millions of poor and vulnerable smallholder farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs.
  • P2: Building markets by developing and Piloting new business models that improve productivity, enhance resilience to climate change, reduce emissions, and improve nutrition outcomes.
  • P3: Enabling Policies that support a strengthened enabling environment for sustainable food and land-use system.

Purpose

• The key responsibilities of the MERL Specialist are detailed below. These are not exhaustive and may change as the programme grows and evolves.

Reporting and Line Management

• This post will report to the MERL/GIS Manager and will co-supervise some State-based Data officers.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development, update of intervention guides for each intervention. This includes developing detailed theories of change, business models, MRM plans and support calculations.
• Set up and manage dynamic and adaptive monitoring systems for each intervention that generate high-quality data at frequent intervals.
• Support the conduct of baseline and impact surveys for P1, P2 and P3 interventions, market research, diagnostics, and scoping studies, GESI studies, etc.
• Analyse large volumes of data generated from this system and derive actionable insights from them.
• Provide regular feedback to intervention teams based on evidence collected from the field which can then be used for adaptively managing the programme’s interventions.
• Design effective study tools, instruments, methods and plans for gathering information that can inform programme strategies and capture impact of interventions.
• Support Intervention teams in gathering relevant information for their various interventions and identifying knowledge gaps where available and developing strategies to fill those gaps.
• Enable the creation of an effective collaborative bridge between Intervention teams and Field Coordinators to ensure effective allocation of field work.
• Provide feedback on various reports and data analysis done from various studies to facilitate the production of internal progress reports as well as contribute to the overall programme reports for the donor.
• Work closely with the Knowledge Manager to ensure that lessons learnt from interventions are duly documented and disseminated to a wider audience.
• Work closely with the Communications Manager to develop case studies and success stories and ensure that these are disseminated to a wider audience.
• Provide weekly updates and plans to the MERL/GIS Manager.
• Develop monthly/quarterly/yearly work plans with other members of the MERL, Communications and Knowledge Management Team.
• Manage the day-to-day activities and performance of State-based data officers and handle any issues faced by them on the field.
• Undertake frequent performance field visits for both GIS/MERL purposes.

Required Qualifications

• The MERL Specialist should have: A Degree in a relevant discipline including Economics, Geography, Statistics, Evaluation, Social Sciences, or Other Related Degree.
• At least 3 years of MERL Manager experience in agricultural-related programmes.
• Excellent analytical skills and expertise in the use of MS Excel, PowerBi and other data analysis tools.
• Excellent skills in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint; proficiency in MS Access and infographics preferred.
• Experience in the development of surveys and data collection instruments for monitoring programmes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (in English) to manage project communications and disseminate project information are required.
• Fluency in speaking and understanding Hausa is highly desirable.
• Experience or knowledge of relevant Northern Nigerian agricultural markets.
• Possess the following soft skills: strategic thinking, detail orientation, problem solving, analytical, teamwork, team management, task management skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online