Country Fund Associate, South Africa

at  Palladium Group Inc

The South Africa Fund Associate will be a key in-country member of the Palladium UK PACT team supporting management of day-to-day activities from project implementation and reporting to stakeholder engagement and context analysis to ensure overall programme success.
Specifically, the South Africa Fund Associate will:

Strategy Development and Engagement:

• Support on continuous context analysis and assessment of local market capacity to identify the most appropriate avenues for interventions and pathways to climate change impact within each key strategic sector
• Support further demand scoping for UK PACT-funded projects in-country, including stakeholder mapping and engagement, identification of complementary existing programmes (funded by the UK and other donors) to avoid programme duplication, and horizon scanning

Stakeholder Relationships:

• Support the UK PACT South Africa Fund Manager in promoting UK PACT funding opportunities to potential implementing partners, project and programme outputs to intended beneficiaries, and broader UK engagement on low-carbon development where relevant
• Working closely with the UK PACT South Africa Fund Manager, contribute to, and where appropriate lead the management of day-to-day interactions with local stakeholdersspecifically supporting the relationships with project applicants and grant recipients/implementing partners; and
• Maintain an excellent working relationship with local FCDO team at Post to collaboratively design and generate buy-in for the programme activities.

Project Management: Identification, Selection and Design of Interventions:

• Support the UK PACT South Africa Fund Manager and PMU in coordination of grant funding windows and support market engagement to ensure the right local stakeholders are aware of, and well-placed to apply for, UK PACT funding opportunities
• Contribute to the project screening and selection process, particularly regarding assessing deliverability and impact potential on the ground
• Support the UK PACT South Africa Fund Manager to oversee timely implementation of projects and regularly ensure the feedback of results, impacts and learning through quarterly reports to FCDO covering overall progress, progress against outputs, main activities and outputs for the next period, budget, spend and forecast, and risks
• Support the UK PACT South Africa Fund Manager and PMU to adhere to any local due diligence required from
• Implementing Partners and to support initial briefing to potential Implementation Partners
• Support defence against fraud, corruption and safeguarding risks, conducting spot checks and other processes to ensure
• FCDO grant funding is spent as intended and that Implementation Partners meet FCDO compliance requirements
• Support the UK PACT South Africa Fund Manager in advising on the potential to extend, scale up or replicate successful projects, and work with successful Implementation Partners to do this with FCDO approval

Programme Reporting:

• Support Implementing Partners on project reporting (technical, financial, results and risk), by reviewing and requesting additional information, where required, to ensure reporting meets FCDO requirements
• Support identification of country and project-specific risk management, working with FCDO in post and in the UK, the Team Leader and PMU