Chief of Party, Burma Higher Education Scholarships Program
Chief of Party, Burma Higher Education Scholarships Program
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 3,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
Palladium Americas:
Our Americas’ business team has brilliant and passionate colleagues working in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America as well as the Caribbean, fulfilling projects and assignments for clients from institutions, corporations, governments, and foundations based in the Americas.
This Opportunity:
The Chief of Party is a full-time position for an upcoming award being solicited through USAID/Burma to promotehigher education scholarships. This Activity will expand the reach of USAID’s current higher education portfolio in Burma and support current and future community leaders to gain access to quality higher education learning opportunities by offering regional and local scholarships and a variety of higher education opportunities via multi-modalities that strengthen the higher education landscape. This position is contingent upon contract award to Palladium.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides overall leadership, strategic guidance, vision, and management to staff and the overall project team, including consultants, and partner organizations
- Plan, direct, and coordinate technical and operational activities to ensure that project goals and objectives are met, and prescribed timeframes and funding parameters follow USAID regulations and Palladium’s policies
- Provide overall technical and administrative leadership to the project implementation team, including development of strategies, budgets, work plans, MEL plans and reporting
- Ensures the strategic and functional integration of all technical areas as well as strong collaboration with donors, private sector, and other implementing partners
- Coordinates with other local USAID representatives, USG projects, Palladium’s home office as well as other development partners to ensure collaboration, integrated approach, and complementarity of the interventions
- Serve as the project’s primary point of contact with USAID, other implementing partners, and other stakeholders; ensure alignment and harmonization with other programming where appropriate
- Responsible for meeting contractual obligations, producing deliverables and targets, and achieving project results as specified by USAID
- Provides strategic vision on program sustainability and resilience
- Ensure interventions reflect high technical quality and are in line with the project’s scope of work.
- Fluent writing, reporting, and presentational skills in English
Key Competencies Required:
- Extensive experience in education and higher education, service learning, youth engagement, private sector engagement, or other relevant fields
- USAID program experience is a must with experience as a Chief of Party on a USAID funded project or other donor-funded development projects
- Regional experience in the Southeast Asia region: Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, etc.
- Experience in relationship building with public and private stakeholders including non-governmental, and civil society organizations, private higher education institutions, and/or other private educational entities in the Southeast Asia region
- Experience working with vulnerable groups including people with disabilities, ethnic and linguistic minorities, internally displaced populations, women, and youth
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with USAID or other donor planning and reporting systems, operations, programming, and structure
- Experience managing and leading technical and administrative teams for complex development projects
- Attention to detail and ability to perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities effectively and efficiently often within a required timeframe
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Professional and diplomatic demeanour and conduct, especially during interactions with the client and its constituents
- Ability to anticipate, respond and adapt quickly to changing requirements and competing demands.
- Ability to take initiative and/or respond independently to situations
- Experience working in high-risk and conflict-affected areas
- Proficient written and spoken Burmese not required but preferred
- Fluent written and spoken English required
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
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