Senior Manager, Climate and Nature

at  Palladium Group Inc

THIS OPPORTUNITY:

Palladium’s Inclusive Growth and Natural Capital Practice (IGNC) is seeking an outstanding professional to join us as a Senior Manager in the Climate and Nature Portfolio. As a senior-level professional in the Practice, the Senior Manager will bring project management experience and technical acumen to both project delivery and business development. The Senior Manager will play a key role in the technical delivery, strategic oversight, and management of projects and, through business development and contributions to thought leadership, contribute to Palladium Americas’ growth and impact around the world.
The Senior Manager will support project delivery, business development, and other initiatives across the Practice. This may include technical areas as diverse as market systems, business enabling environments, climate smart agriculture and nature based solutions, enterprise development and entrepreneurship, competitiveness, export and market development, e-commerce, and innovation. Across activities, the Senior Manager will lead advancement of IGNC approaches in private sector engagement (PSE), localization, youth and gender inclusion, and working with and through local business ecosystems to achieve scaled and sustainable development outcomes.
An experienced Senior Manager will have opportunities to support other units within the firm in our collaborative and agile environment, as well as to travel for project oversight or business development pursuits. Typically, Senior Managers serve as thought leaders, proposal champions, and Project Directors; they also may have opportunities to fill short- and long-term assignments overseas.

Project Management

• Serves as Project Director on one or more Palladium home office project management unit(s)
• Manages complex components of large projects, or series of smaller projects, with responsibility for work planning, budget management, project deliverables, client relations, and staff supervision
• Manages project changes including project scope, schedule, and costs to keep the project plan accurate and updated
• Oversees and ensures quality of the development of reports, budgets, workplans, proposals and other outputs for internal and external stakeholders, paying attention to the quality of results and project delivery and helping teams make adjustments as needed
• Manages relationship with partner organizations on compliant delivery of inputs and the achievement of agreed upon outputs and outcomes

Business Development

• Identify new markets and sales opportunities, lead or contribute to sales and proposal efforts, and engage existing and potential partners to expand Palladium’s technical expertise on existing lines of business
• Provide a capture lead role and/or write technical proposals for USAID and other donor funded opportunities based on best practices applied to specific country/regional contexts
• Take part in reconnaissance or positioning trips as part of priority new captures and bids to engage with potential partners, including private firms and sources of finance within a target sector or value chain.

Technical & Thought Leadership

• Leads technical work in topic area including: research, analysis, and publication of technical reports, case studies, policy and program approaches, and technical tools on related topics to expand existing lines of business
• Maintains an industry presence as a thought leader by publishing regularly in peer reviewed journals and/or by presenting at annual conferences and meetings
• Collaborates with peers to identify new research approaches and potential markets for those services
• Identifies, builds, and maintains relationships with partners and consultants that provide technical expertise to both proposals and/or projects within their respective technical topic area(s)

Leadership/Other

• Contributes to efforts at the portfolio to build team cohesiveness, lead, mentor, train, and motivate staff to ensure cooperation, project efficiency, and boost morale
• Leads teams to implement new work including assignment and management of staff to new activities, initiatives, or projects
• Acts as main point of contact for regular communication for all relevant technical subject matter stakeholders, both internal and external to Palladium
• Performs other duties as assigned