Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved – and is committed to continuing to improve – economies, societies and most importantly, people’s lives.
Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.
Palladium is looking for a Team Leader to be included in Palladium’s proposal for the upcoming DFID-funded Zimbabwean Economic Reform Facility (ZERF). The programme will support improvements in economic governance and the business environment in order to help unlock Zimbabwe’s prosperity potential.
Through the reform of economic governance policies, instruments and implementation, and fostering improvements in the business enabling environment and investment climate, ZERF will help to facilitate economic growth in Zimbabwe and trade and investment links between Zimbabwe and other nations. The Team Leader acts as the central point of leadership for the programme. The Team Leader will provide strategic leadership in coordination with Government of Uganda counterparts, and will be responsible for overall programme management and achieving targets agreed with DFID. The Team Leader will manage programme staff by motivating, developing, hiring and dismissing as required. The Team Leader will build and nurture relationships with a wide range of key stakeholders, from government counterparts and senior politicians, to donors and private sector contractors.
- Lead with the Technical Director in the preparation of work plans and budgets; staffing plans; performance improvement plans and other plans as required
- Provide guidance, oversight and quality assurance for all project activities, outputs and deliverables.
- Assume overall responsibility for the effective implementation of work plans to ensure delivery is on time, within budget, meets client and stakeholder expectations and is contractually compliant.
- Monitor implementation progress; maintain up to date project logs and registers; work to resolve issues, manage and mitigate risks; and escalate issues and risks as appropriate.
- Develop and implement plans for results measurement, monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management, value for money analysis and communication management
- Manage relationships with the host country government, counterpart agencies, project partners and stakeholders and business partners.
- Develop strong working relationships with the leadership of other development programmes, in particular those of DFID, and explore commonalities and potential synergies between ZERF and them where possible.
Experience
- Experience designing and delivering a donor funded programme in Zimbabwe, particularly in the fields of economic growth, governance and policy reform.
- Experience collaborating closely with Zimbabwean research institutions and think-tanks, and improving the technical capacity of Government Ministries, Department and Agencies
- Experience leading large, complex and adaptive programmes, involving private sector governance and civil society in economic policy advocacy
- Experience using Problem Driven Iterative Approaches (PDIA), Political Economy Analysis, Conflict Analysis and Actor Network Mapping
- Experience leading business enabling environment and investment climate programmes
- Experience improving the capacity of business membership and civil society organisations (BMOs and CSOs) to participate in public/private dialogue to either advocate for change or have the capacity to implement it
Skills and competencies
- A thorough understanding Zimbabwe’s economic policy through a political economy lens
- Strong expertise in building and managing programmatic relationships with high level stakeholders from government, civil society and donors
- Strong expertise in leading complex programmes, including managing and mentoring members of staff
- Good understanding of governance and public administration in Zimbabwe
- Strong ability to manage complex teams
Zimbabwean nationals are strongly encouraged to apply
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