Directeur D'Établissement / Chef D'Équipe

Facility Director / Team Lead
The cover letter and resume must be done in English
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 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
This Proposal Opportunity: Palladium is seeking a Facility Director / Team Lead to help a confidential client implement a fund aimed at catalyzing positive social, economic and environmental impact at a regional level in Anosy, Madagascar. The Facility Director will work with a local team, subcontractors and Palladium Home Office to identify, select, and initiate projects that partner with private and public partners to achieve social, economic and environmental impacts. Projects may include initiatives in collaboration with agricultural exporters to improve smallholder productivity, projects with local NGOs and private sector employers to train youth in skills and connect them to in-demand jobs and/or projects that incentivize reforestation through the adoption of agroforestry models. The financing facility will identify partners, structure partnerships, design projects, launch pilots, monitor results and then scale successful pilots to community and regional level programs. Projects will be supported with technical assistance (expert inputs/advisory, evaluation, connection to external funds) and funding in the form of grants. In the first phase (18 months) of operation, the Facility will focus on piloting small-scale projects, co-created with private and public sector partners to learn and then scale results with proven partners, communities and models. The second phase (24-36 months) will focus on scaling proven models and curating a pipeline of additional projects that can be co-created, piloted and then scaled.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Project Lead

Provide overall responsibility for project management and implementation of project activities.
Provide overall leadership to all project areas, especially experience accelerating private investment, leveraging public sector investment, and agricultural firm/agricultural outgrower scheme scale up and expansion (initially, to be diversified in later years).
Oversee the project budget and finances, including budget projections, project spending, and financial performance reporting.
Manage project partners and project staff (2-4 full-time employees; team will grow over time), ensuring they are fully engaged and participating in program implementation.
Communicate and implement an integrated vision among different components and actors, especially relating to oversight of sub-contractors.
Serve as the main interface between the project, the client, Palladium senior management, and other relevant stakeholders.
Comply with the client and Palladium reporting requirements on program impact and implementation; working with the Monitoring & Evaluation team to set up results frameworks and deliver results against them in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Facility / Partnerships Management

Identify, secure and regularly engage public sector partners to coordinate programs towards mutually beneficial development outcomes and leverage financing.
Identify, secure and regularly engage private sector partners in co-creation processes to design programs that confer social, economic and or environmental benefit to private sector actors and communities of interest in the Anosy region.
Negotiate agreements and MOUs with partners to ensure leveraged financing and shared interest in programs that improve livelihoods for communities in the Anosy region.
Contribute to development of projects pipeline for continual investment from the fund.
Work closely with team to evaluate and select projects for grants and technical assistance support.
Liaise with identified partners and grantees on a regular basis to ensure agreement on objectives for the partnership and alignment with objectives.
Coordinate support functions for partners, including from activity team members, subcontractors, grantees, and other actors.
Facilitate and coordinate technical design of innovative grants, partnership and subcontracting approaches to meet the technical strategies of the innovative fund model.

Develop strategies to prioritize partnership-supported activities that are locally led and generate benefits for marginalized communities, including Indigenous populations, women, youth, and persons with disabilities.
Key Competencies Required:

Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or relevant field.
Extensive international work experience, particularly in Madagascar and/or other countries in the region, implementing financial sector or private sector development programs with demonstrated strong management and coordination skills.
Significant management experience, including direct supervision of professional and support staff and assembling teams working on multifaceted, complex international development programs.
Extensive experience working in the development sector with a focus on agricultural, health, education/skills, or nature based solutions (environment).
Ability to work in difficult contexts, balancing competing interests across communities, public and private sector a plus (conflict contexts, developing countries, Indigenous contexts).
Strong track record of mobilizing private-public sector finance to scale social, economic and environmental impacts.
Experience supporting smallholder farmers, youth, women in livelihood improvement programs.
Experience working with or for extractive industries is a plus.
Experience working in programs that involve grants management is a plus.
Experience living and/or working in Southern Madagascar (Anosy region) is a plus.

Fluency in French and English required; fluency in Malagasy is a plus.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. 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.
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 ****** and we will be in touch to discuss.
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.

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