Program Manager, NPI EXPAND

Program Manager, NPI EXPAND

Company Overview:

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 3,000 talented, motivated, and diverse
staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities. 

Palladium
Americas

Our Americas’ business team
has brilliant and passionate colleagues working in Asia, Africa, Europe, the
Middle East, and North and South America as well as the Caribbean, fulfilling
projects and assignments for clients from institutions, corporations,
governments, and foundations based in the Americas. We have offices in
Washington, DC, New York City, and Raleigh-Durham, NC.

NPI EXPAND Overview

The New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) Expanding Health
Partnerships—NPI EXPAND Project—is a global five-year (2019-2024) U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID) funded project that supports
locally-driven efforts to increase the availability and utilization of
high-quality health and education services. In line with USAID’s Journey to
Self-Reliance (J2SR) framework, NPI EXPAND invests in new and underutilized
local partners (NUPs) and strengthens their capacity to strategize, plan, and
implement programs with USAID funds. Enhanced participation of capable local
organizations to increase demand for and to deliver high-quality, high impact
services will enable governments to meet crucial goals equitably and
sustainably. NPI EXPAND will also catalyze opportunities to scale up innovative
interventions by strengthening the capacity of NUPs with varying levels of
capabilities and exposure to USAID.

This
Opportunity

The NPI
EXPAND Program Manager will provide managerial, administrative and technical
support for project activities including work plan development, grant making,
budget development and monitoring, capacity strengthening with local grantees,
documentation and reporting, communications, and monitoring, evaluation, and
learning. The program manager will provide managerial and technical counsel to
staff in two to three countries:  Pakistan, Brazil and Tanzania.  The program manager will apply a gender lens to all country activities
in health (and education in Pakistan), ensuring that gender equity is advanced.
As necessary, the program manager will advise on Covid-19 protocols for project
staff and activities. The program manager will report to the Field Support
Director.

You and
Your Career

If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and
doer, and you have expertise in international development project management in
family planning, maternal newborn, and child health projects, 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!

Primary Duties and
Responsibilities: 

The primary
responsibilities of the Program Manager, NPI
EXPAND include, but are not limited to:

Provide Managerial Assistance/Oversight:

• Assist in-country team with workplan and budget development and monitoring
• Ensure in-country team is utilizing/following systems for project development and implementation
• Ensure clear communication with the client, grantees, and partners
• Assist with trouble-shooting and problem-solving on project activities
• Assist in-country team with quarterly and annual reporting, and other reports, research where necessary

Provide technical oversight:

• Ensure health
  programming approaches in family planning (FP) and maternal, newborn,
  child health (MNCH) reflect international and national guidance and best
  practice
• Ensure gender is
  taken into account in all project work in technical area and that gender
  equity principles are advanced
• Provide technical
  guidance in health and /or education to grantees and for all activities in
  country
• Engage in regular
  monitoring calls with the Country Team Lead (CTL) and in-country project
  technical staff, grantees and consultants
• Identify
  challenges/issues with project work and troubleshoot solutions with
  in-country staff and experts
• Escalate any persistent
  challenges/issues as appropriate to the CTL and the project’s global staff

Oversee and provide input into grantee and project reports:

• Assist with
  preparation/review of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports
  for Palladium global team and USAID
• Engage in weekly
  calls with the global project team and Field Support Director
• Engage in biweekly
  calls with the project team and USAID
• Review
  achievements of milestones submitted by grantees
• Review and advise
  on health aspects of deliverables submitted by grantees
• Assist with
  maintaining activity documentation for health programming (documents,
  emails, workplans and drafts) in appropriate location where others can
  find it

Monitoring, Learning, Reporting, and Dissemination:

• Assist with
  documenting achievement of objectives and collection of data for the
  monitoring and evaluation plan
• Work with
  in-country staff to identify promising practices, success stories, and
  lessons learned to document and disseminate through print, electronic,
  presentation, and other means
• Co-develop (with
  in-country staff and local partners) remote workshops/knowledge
  dissemination events to share experiences/successes and address challenges
  that may arise among local implementers
• Assist/Advise CTL
  and technical project staff on communication with USAID Mission as needed
  on health programming issues
• Assist country
  staff with the development of communications products (photos/stories) as
  needed with local partners to communicate activity progress and impact

Period and Location of
Performance

The position will go through September 2024. Location
for this engagement is in Washington, DC.

Key competencies
required:

• Strong experience
  with USAID-funded project experience is required
• Strong experience
  working with civil society organizations (e.g., NGOs, CBOs, FBOs, etc.)
  required
• Strong experience
  representing project or activity with government, donors, and other
  stakeholders
• Excellent report
  writing and communications skills
• Proficiency in
  Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Professional
expertise/competencies preferred:

• Strong experience
  managing international health or education project activities required;
  providing technical assistance in FP/MNCH and/or education is preferred.
• Experience
  supporting projects in Brazil, Pakistan, and/or Tanzania preferred
• Swahili,
  Portuguese, or another language preferred
• Understanding of
  gender barriers and facilitators in health programming preferred
• Experience with
  monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities preferred

Diversity,
Equity & Inclusion– 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, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality,
veteran, marital or Indigenous status. 

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.