Deputy Project Director at Palladium International

Roles and Responsibilities

• Assist the Project Director in the implementation of project activities, including work planning, budgeting, and reporting requirements.
• Provides direct supervision to project component leaders.
• When required, serve as the interface between the project and USG and host government stakeholders and Palladium senior management.
• Manages local partners that work in the health financing space. This includes but is not limited to ensuring that all partners are engaged and produce the required results.
• If requested to do so by the Project Director, assumes responsibility for overseeing project budget and finances including financial performance reporting, budget projections and project spending.
• When requested, represents the project at relevant professional meetings, working groups and seminars.
• Prepare analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, white papers, and assessments for internal and client use.

Position Requirements

• Significant progressively increasing project management responsibility with at least 3 years’ in a senior leadership position on an HRH project that is implemented in Kenya or similar setting.
• Demonstrated oral and written communication are essential as the Deputy Project Director will assist the Project Director for the development and submission of project reporting and communication efforts.
• Demonstrated organizational and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated management and supervisory experience of a relevant scope and scale, and leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience working with local partners to ensure adherence to all sub-award requirements.
• Experience in interacting with host country agencies, including central and local government, development partners, civil society and community-based organizations is essential.
• Knowledge of USG regulations.
• Prior experience developing strategic plans, workplans, and/or activity plans for large service delivery programs.
• Ability to communicate effectively and high comfort level writing and presenting data and information in a compelling way to difference audiences.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and non-technical audience required.