Palladium Component 3 Lead: Market Access, USAID/Rwanda Modernizing Agriculture Activity Jobs
Palladium Component 3 Lead: Market Access, USAID/Rwanda Modernizing Agriculture Activity Jobs
Company Overview: About Palladium - Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world's most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people's lives.
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Company Overview:
About Palladium - Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world's most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people's lives.
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.
Project Overview and Role:
The United States Agency for International Development/Rwanda (USAID/Rwanda) intends to award an acquisition activity through a competitive process, subject to availability of funding. The Modernizing Agriculture (ModAg) Activity aims to support increased agriculture productivity and income, access to finance and markets, and access and consumption of nutritious food products in Rwanda, while increasing the resilience of the agriculture and food systems to the changing climate. ModAg will use a facilitative approach to support market actors from the public and private sector to develop Rwanda’s agricultural sector.
Palladium seeks a Component 3 Lead to spearhead the activities under Intermediate Result 3 Improve producers’ market outcomes. They will lead ModAg activities focused on expanding farmers’ access to markets, while increasing access to and availability of safe and nutritious foods among Rwandan consumers.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
In line with overall project strategies and approaches, manage the development, planning, and implementation of activities to facilitate improved farmers’ access to markets; improved access to and use of post-harvest handling technologies and infrastructure; increased availability of and demand for safe nutritious food products; and improved value addition capacity for food processing that supports healthy diets
Serve as a member of the senior leadership team of the Project and support the Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party in oversight of project staff and activities
Co-lead and oversee programmatic functions, i.e., development of work plans, budgets, quarterly/annual reports, and effective implementation of program strategy
Support effective and open communication with the Chief of Party, Deputy Chief of Party, USAID, Project Director, other Component Leads, project operations teams, and other relevant stakeholders
Represent the project at meetings and events with GOR officials, agricultural community, NGOs, non-profits, and other public and private stakeholders
Work with the Chief of Party, Deputy Chief of Party, and other project staff to integrate lessons learned, performance monitoring, and other inputs to continuously refine activities, management practices, and implementation
As a senior leader and technical advisor, support project leadership, operations, and management resources to ensure activities are implemented in accordance with Palladium policies and USAID regulations and procedures
In collaboration with the M&E team, ensure relevant staff use, maintain, and regularly upload data to support monitoring and evaluation of activities and results
Required Qualifications:
Demonstrated experience in senior management positions for USAID programs of similar or greater scope and complexity
Demonstrated expertise and experience in the following areas: market systems development; value chain development; private sector engagement; agro-processing; and/or nutrition and food systems.
Demonstrated experience collaborating with private sector actors, preferably in the agricultural space
Strong analytical skills and problem solving, including demonstrated ability to effectively communicate strategies or plans to stakeholders and co-workers
Experience managing diverse, multidisciplinary teams
Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders
Experience in monitoring and documenting project activities and outcomes
Excellent communications, organizational, and interpersonal skills
Strong supervision skills managing teams
Experience working for large donor organizations such as USAID preferred
Knowledge of USAID policies, procedures, and reporting requirements preferred
Strong interpersonal, writing, and oral presentation skills in English and Kinyarwanda
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Palladium Component 3 Lead: Market Access, USAID/Rwanda Modernizing Agriculture Activity Jobs
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