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Strategic Leader for Digital Democracy Initiatives
2 months ago
We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Deputy Chief of Party to lead our digital democracy initiatives. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight to our activities, ensuring effective implementation of our program strategy.
Key Responsibilities- Provide support to the Project Director with strategic leadership and oversight of the activity.
- Serve as a member of the senior leadership team of the program and support the Project Director in oversight of project staff and buy-in activities.
- Co-lead and oversee programmatic functions, including development of work plans, budgets, quarterly/annual reports, and ensure effective implementation of program strategy.
- Maintain effective and open communication throughout the project with the Project Director, Objective Leads, project operations teams, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Work with the Project Director and other project staff to continuously refine implementation processes by integrating lessons learned and best practices.
- Serve in an acting capacity in the absence of the Project Director.
- Oversee the design and strategy of new project buy-ins and workplans, ensuring timely submission to and approval by the client and ensure that agreed activities and targets are fully accomplished, meet expected technical and management quality standards, and are delivered on schedule and on budget.
- Identify opportunities and negotiate partnership programs to leverage synergistic donor, governmental, and organizational resources.
- Manage and mentor a team of senior technical and program management staff and facilitate strong communication and coordination with and between all team members.
- Cultivate and provide oversight to a network of diverse local and international project subcontractors and grantees to ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables and facilitate regular communication among implementing partners to encourage maximum participation in the project.
- At a minimum, have a bachelor's degree (master's degree preferred in business administration, information systems, democracy, or international development) and fifteen (15) years of experience adaptively managing USAID activities, including contracts and buy-ins, and proven experience building and managing dynamic, flexible teams.
- Strong financial management experience including the ability to develop, track and monitor budgets and overall financial health of the project.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a high level of emotional intelligence for effective communication and interaction within the project and to promote and position the project in the broader digital transformation arena.
- Sound management skills to guide all project human, technical, and financial resources.
- Experience leading large-scale USAID activities that catalyze democracy, governance, or economic growth outcomes world-wide; prior experience as Chief of Party, Project Director, Deputy Director, Team Leader, etc., on project(s) of similar scope, scale, and complexity preferred.
- Experience cultivating and managing relationships across multiple technical sectors, including digital development, policy and strategy, democracy, digital rights, digital inclusion, and/or digital transformation.
- Strong communications, writing, and oral presentation skills in English. Professional fluency in additional languages preferred (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese).
- Willingness to travel up to 30% of time.
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe. 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.
We are 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.
