5 CATALYZE EduFinance Regional Representative at Palladium International

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CATALYZE EduFinance Regional Representative – AfricaAbout 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.
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This Opportunity:
CATALYZE
EduFinance (‘EduFinance’) is seeking to fill a long-term position based
in Sub-Saharan Africa, which will provide regional representation;
program management; communications; monitoring, evaluation, and learning
(MEL); and technical quality assurance and support to the current and
prospective EduFinance activities being implemented in Sub-Saharan
Africa. These activities currently include Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia,
South Africa, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with other
prospective buy-ins in development (see below for more details on
CATALYZE EduFinance).

Palladium is the prime contractor under
CATALYZE EduFinance. The projects in Africa are implemented on a
day-to-day basis by implementing partners / sub-contractors and
sub-grantees.

About CATALYZE/EduFinance
The CATALYZE
Blended Finance Mechanism is a $250 Million, 8-year contract (5-year
base period, with a single 3-year option period) which uses a
facilitated partnership model to craft solutions to crowd in $2 Billion
in blended finance (i.e., blended concessional and commercial finance)
to USAID partner countries and initiatives. CATALYZE allows USAID
Bureaus and Missions to efficiently deploy investment facilitation
solutions that respond to the needs of specific sectors, issues, and
geographies.

The CATALYZE EduFinance program develops private
sector partnerships to facilitate innovations in financing and service
delivery that increase access to low-cost, quality education. CATALYZE
EduFinance mobilizes blended finance – the strategic use of public funds
to increase private sector investment – to crowd in private capital
into non-state schools and education enterprises in USAID partner
countries. Private capital leveraged with funding from USAID will
address the substantial funding gap to respond to the global need for
increased access to quality education.

CATALYZE EduFinance
leverages a pool of specialized expertise to design and implement
complex multi-year programs, that can include dynamic tools, such as
first loss capital, to mitigate country or education sector-specific
risks.

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To
mobilize private capital in support of education goals, CATALYZE
EduFinance operates at the nexus of demand-driven investment and
innovative solutions development, collaborating with a global community
of experts. CATALYZE EduFinance is implementing a pipeline of education
investments in target countries in Africa (Zambia, South Africa, Rwanda,
Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya), and Latin
America/Caribbean (Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti,
Honduras, and Paraguay).

Location:
The Regional
Representative must be able to live and work in a Sub-Saharan country,
with a strong preference for those residing full-time in one of the
countries where CATALYZE EduFinance’s activities are active.

This
position will require frequent travel (up to 50%) to current and
prospective activity sites (currently in Rwanda, Tanzania, DRC, South
Africa, and Zambia with more buy-ins in the process of being added).

You and Your Career:
If
you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, with skills in
communication, monitoring and evaluation and stakeholder engagement, we
are interested in hearing from you.
We are a learning organization
and provide growth opportunities from the start. We pride ourselves on
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career!

Reporting and Supervision:
The EduFinance Regional Representative will report to the CATALYZE Senior Education Finance Specialist based in Washington, DC.
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Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
The
EduFinance Regional Representative is expected to travel frequently to
the EduFinance projects in each of the countries of current and
prospective activities to accomplish the following:

• Serve
  as Palladium’s regional representative, supporting the DC-based USAID
  team by providing on-the-ground support, quality assurance, stakeholder
  management, and partnership building efforts
• Stakeholder
  engagement and partnership building duties include meeting with USAID
  clients, implementing partners and other key stakeholders (e.g., host
  country government officials, private sector investors and financial
  institutions, partner schools, foundations, etc) in the countries where
  EduFinance is operating. Objectives are to maintain strong client
  engagement and trust in Palladium’s work on current activities
  (achieving results, technical excellence); and build strong networks to
  help foster the growth of current activities and new opportunities
• Conduct quality assurance and performance management of the projects to make sure they are achieving their technical results
• Carry
  out monitoring and evaluation of the projects – this includes assisting
  the home office Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team with
  tasks such as program reporting, data verification, checking to make
  sure the projects are meeting their indicators and targets
• Communications
  support – identify and help develop important new knowledge products,
  attend events representing Palladium / CATALYZE EduFinance and serve as a
  thought leader in this capacity (e.g., be on panels and presentations
  at these events)
• Help resolve management and technical challenges as needed
• Support
  Safeguarding efforts – this includes visiting the projects and meeting
  with the implementing partners to ensure that safeguarding protocols are
  being followed and help proactively address potential
  safeguarding-related issues
• Help support task order development (new business development) as needed
• Other duties as required

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Key Competencies Required:

• Relevant
  program management, MEL, or other similar experience, ideally focused
  on education, finance, and/or development initiatives in Sub-Saharan
  Africa
• Evidence of strong communication skills, both
  interpersonal and written, to fulfil the diverse technical and
  managerial requirements of the project
• Knowledge of USAID
  processes and regulations, and ideally USAID programming in the
  education sector and key policies including the Private Sector
  Engagement Policy, Education Policy and USAID terminology, processes,
  and tools
• Strong ability to communicate effectively and
  professionally in English, and strong proficiency in a language that’s
  predominant where CATALYZE EduFinance implements activities
• Strong
  existing network in the countries EduFinance operates in or is looking
  to expand to in order to facilitate business development

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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. These include: (but
are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender
identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation,
disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

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
accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com 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.