Associate, Health

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 Opportunity:

Palladium is seeking an Associate to support the implementation of health activities under the USAID-funded EpiC project and other global health projects as needs arise. EpiC is seeking an Associate to support COVID-19 response programming in Latin America, and other activities as needed. The successful candidate will provide project management and technical support for a range of activities.

Location:

The position is based in Palladium’s Washington, D.C. office.

You and Your Career:

If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have interest and experience in program management, and have Spanish speaking/writing abilities, we are interested in hearing from you.

We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting and Supervision:

This person will report to the EpiC El Salvador Country Activity Manager and will be a part of the Project Management Unit. This team is responsible under the leadership of Practice Area Lead and the management of the Director, Project Delivery, for the management and delivery of projects.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

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  Contribute to workplan implementation by applying management and coordination tools, facilitating collaboration, tracking deliverables, documenting bottlenecks (and proposing solutions), and sharing lessons learned
  
• Help coordinate diverse virtual technical teams including scheduling regular meetings, generating agendas and minutes and following up on action items
  
• Assist with monitoring activity progress and spending to ensure planned activities align with cash forecasts, pipeline expenditures, timelines, and workplans
  
• Coordinate with project delivery team to ensure that operations run smoothly for project implementation, including managing consultancies, developing job descriptions, and tracking deliverables
  
• Participate in preparation of written materials, including reports, research articles, PowerPoint presentations, curricula, blogs, and briefs. This may include conducting literature reviews, drafting, and editing
  
• Work collaboratively with others to shepherd documents through stages of drafting, review, copy editing, and finalization
  
• Contribute to activity and project reporting requirements including compiling inputs into quarterly and semi-annual reports
  
• Support knowledge management by organizing and maintaining deliverables, reports, and products per client and Palladium guidelines
  
• Contribute proactively and energetically to a team that welcomes new ideas and innovations to improve outcomes
  
• Participate in business development efforts, as required and appropriate
  
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned

Key Competencies Required:

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  Strong time and task management – ability to keep on track of multiple deliverables and deadlines for a team, not just self
• Attention to detail and ability to perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities effectively and efficiently
  
• Good interpersonal skills and works well with diverse cross-cultural groups, partners, and colleagues
  
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, and consensus-building skills
  
• Professional and mature demeanor and conduct; sound judgement on protocols and communication when working with clients, government, and country counterparts
  
• Ability to take initiative and/or respond independently to situations
  
• Clear and effective writing and oral communication skills, including significant experience with report development and delivering oral presentations supported by PowerPoint slides
  
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, and financial skills
  
• Ability to take initiative and/or respond independently to situations
  
• Work well with limited oversight and with diverse cross-cultural groups, partners, and colleagues
• Professional fluency in Spanish

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Past work experience managing USAID or other donor-funded projects
  
• Experience working internationally
  
• Formal studies in international development, public health, or similar field
  
• Willingness and ability to travel and work in developing countries when travel and health conditions allow

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.