Palladium Current Recruitment Opportunities

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Campaign and Innovation Specialist – Nigeria Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE)

Requisition ID: req13162
Location: Abuja
Duration: 1 year, with the possibility of extension for additional 2.5 years.

Project Overview and Role

•  SCALE is a USAID-funded 5-year project (Oct 08, 2020 – Oct 07, 2025), implemented by Palladium in collaboration with the local resource partners.
• The objective of the SCALE project is to strengthen the financial, management, and advocacy capacity of local civil society organizations (CSOs) and Business Membership Organizations (BMOs) in Nigeria to create a more accountable, transparent, peaceful, and democratic Nigeria with more effective and efficient public service delivery.
• SCALE supports civil society organizations (CSOs) and business membership organizations (BMOs) across all of USAID/Nigeria’s programmatic sectors with a basket of managerial, business strengthening, and advocacy capacity-building interventions aimed at advancing Nigerian CSO sustainability combined with targeted grants to advance mutually agreed upon priorities.
• The project is designed to enhance local civil society organizations’ ability to be positive and responsible change agents in Nigeria.
• The SCALE project is looking for a highly driven and creative advocacy professional to join its technical team to provide support to SCALE CSO/BMO partners in implementing effective advocacy and awareness campaigns to support their policy reform agenda.
• The position will also manage SCALE innovation strategies and partners.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Campaign:

• Provide technical support to SCALE partners in developing advocacy campaign strategies for engaging diverse stakeholders
• Initiate Strategic Campaign actions to be undertaken by relevant project components and partners.
• Work closely with the Policy and Governance Advisor to support communications elements of partners’ campaign initiatives as well as ongoing media strengthening support to project partners.
• Facilitate design and implementation of campaigns around key global events such as World Water Day, International Women’s Day, and 16 Days Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence.
• In collaboration with the SCALE Communications and Media team, facilitate efforts to jointly keep diverse audiences informed about SCALE.
• Ensure strict adherence to the branding and marking policy of the project.

Innovation:

• Manage a portfolio of innovation activities for SCALE.
• Work with SCALE innovation partners to establish work plans, activities, budgets, and milestones for measuring progress and results.
• Track and report progress in implementing innovation activities i.e process, timelines, and outcomes against objectives and set results.
• Monitor progress and identify risks for timely action and early resolution.
• Ensure full compliance of sub-awardees with SCALE and USAID rules and regulations
• Ensure that all monthly, quarterly reports from awardees are received promptly.
• Lead efforts to share achievements and learning from the implementation of innovation activities including promoting opportunities for adoption, adaptation, and scale-up of successful innovations.
• Build relationships with a network of key stakeholders to help influence project outcomes and adoption
• Keep track of technological and knowledge developments within and outside the project and promote the use of this knowledge to gain insights that can be used to design or formulate requests for tailored concepts in the future.
• Maintain a future focus, looking ahead to designing new concepts for call for innovation proposals.

Cross-cutting:

• Provide monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and other reports as requested.
• Document and share impactful stories to reflect project achievements with campaigns, media, communications, and innovation activities.
• Work collaboratively with other SCALE teams in the delivery of SCALE goals, objectives, and results.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in International Affairs, Public Administration, Policy, Social Sciences, Law, Development Studies, or related field.
• Prior experience with designing, implementing and measuring results of effective advocacy campaigns.
• Demonstrated relevant experience in civil society engagement and policy reform in Nigeria.
• Strong technical expertise in the design and implementation of innovation projects.
• Significant experience in planning and implementing successful campaign and media work.
• Good organizational, verbal, and written communication skills as well as ability to multi-task.
• Experience in engaging with government, civil society, and the organized private sector.
• Experience in multi-sectoral coordination and networking with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated strategic ability, diplomacy, written and oral communication, and negotiation skills.
• Strong organizational skills and strategic thinking; attention to detail; flexible and able to work efficiently with multiple tasks.
• Strong in written and spoken English.
• Competency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint required.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Finance Officer – Nigeria IHP

Requisition ID: 421966
Location: Kebbi
Employment Type: Full Time

Project Overview and Role:

• Nigeria Integrated Health Program is an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems.
• It will focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas: family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/new born health, and treatment of childhood pneumonia/diarrhea. It has a strong emphasis on monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• This program will work closely with state-level government officials to support established state-level Health and Development Plans, build capacity, and promote ownership of interventions, systems, and results.
• Specific interventions will need to be tailored to local contexts and will be fully developed at state and Local Government Area (LGA) levels. Through agreements with individual states, the program’s potential breadth is the entire country with an emphasis on the north.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Budget, Accounting and Financial Management:

• Ensure all finances are managed in alignment with the Nigerian government regulations, company and client’s financial policies and procedures.
• Liaise with project team in Field Office and HQ to prepare, review and revise project budgets and expenditure forecasts.
• Forecast project expenditures through field office, timely submit field cash requests and manage cash flows in field office.
• Communicate and follow up with relevant suppliers, consultants, vendors, contractors and staff with regards to invoices, payments, advances or finances.
• Reconcile and review invoices for payments. Ensure necessary review, deliverables, and approvals before issuing payments. Write checks and issue payments.
• Ensure applicable tax withholding and deductions are taken care of as per the Nigerian laws and regulations.
• Maintain up-to-date bank and petty cash account transaction records and supporting documentations.
• Record all financial transactions in the financial templates provided by HQ, accurately and in a timely fashion.
• Prepare, review and submit regular field vouchers and financial reports to HQ, as required.
• Collect bank statements for the bank accounts, review cash book, and reconcile the accounts.
• Review monthly financial reports and inform/update expenditure forecast/budget on regular basis.
• Prepare financial report as necessary and provide necessary financial support to the project.
• Process for applicable tax exemptions and VAT reimbursements during or after procurements in collaboration with the Nigeria Compliance Manager.
• Assist in end-of-year financial audit, as required.
• Work closely with the Operations Officer for daily tasks and project management.

Grants Management Support:

• Review recipients’ finance vouchers
• Process recipients’ invoices and payments.

Required Qualifications

• University Graduate in Financial Management, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics or other relevant field.
• At least 3-5 years of work experience in broader finance, accounts and operations management with an international organization and
• USG contracts experience preferred (including office management, HR, finance, IT, and logistics);
• Able to communicate effectively and excellent interpersonal skills to form effective working relationships at all levels;
• High level of computer literacy (proficiency in MS Excel would be added advantage)
• Ability to deal appropriately with sensitive issues and maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times;
• Cross-functional team player;
• Results oriented and attention to detail;
• Proven experience in managing expenditures within budget.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Logistics Assistant – Nigeria IHP

Requisition ID: req13124
Location: Ebonyi

Project Overview and Role

• IHP is an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems.
• It will focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas, family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn health, and treatment of childhood pneumonia/diarrhea.
• The Logistics assistant is responsible for managing meetings, workshops and training. He also supports the logistics requirements of the State Office in collaboration with the Operations Officer at Ebonyi State to manage travels, hotels, movement of goods belonging to IHP. He also manages the fixed assets of the projects and ensures that the inventory of consumables and fixed asset register are comprehensive and up to date.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs inventory control.
• Coordinate travels of Project personnel and consultants.
• Support the Operations Officer to generate Purchase Requisition and RFQ for procurements
• Provides the logistics support required for meetings, trainings and workshops.
• Assists in management of Field Office assets, premises, supplies, publications, facilities, and logistic services as required.
• Manages the reception and access control to the office
• Performs any other duty that may be assigned from time to time.
• Reports to the IT/Operations Officer.

Required Qualifications

• The Logistics Assistant should have a minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalents with at least two years cognate experience in managing procurements, logistics and fixed assets in an international organization, preferably in the development sector
• He/She should be familiar with USAID Rules, Regulations and Policies
• Ability to speak the local languages and possession of higher degree in the social science are added advantages

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Driver – Task Order 6

Requisition ID: req12416
Location: Ebonyi

Project Overview and Role

• Palladium seeks a Driver for the five-year, USAID-funded Nigeria Integrated Health Program (IHP) – Task Order 6 – Ebonyi. The goal of IHP is to contribute to state-level reductions in child and maternal morbidity and mortality and to increase the capacity of health systems (public and private) to sustainably support quality PHC services.
• The purpose of Task Order 6 is to implement priority primary health interventions in Ebonyi state to strengthen the state government area (LGA), and ward level health systems. The objectives of the program are a) strengthen systems supporting primary health care (PHC) services b) improve access to PHC services; and c) increase quality of PHC services. Strong engagement and collaboration with state government is expected throughout the program.
• Task Order 6 will coordinate closely with other USAID activities and other development partner programs in the state. USAID will intentionally overlay this activity with other Mission programming to increase Government of Nigeria (GON) resources for PHC services, increase demand for PHC services, and improve access to essential commodities. The activity is expected to collaborate closely with those other implementing partners and will not undertake any activities already implemented by other USAID programs.
• The Driver is a full-time position to support the Nigeria Integrated Health Program staff in the safe transport of team members and deliveries. Under immediate supervision of the Operations Manager.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive vehicles as directed, including transporting staff to the field, performing pickups and delivery tasks; responsible for routine vehicle maintenance, including inspecting the vehicle; noting damage, scratches, malfunctions, or problems and reporting any faults to senior driver; and ensuring vehicles are clean, well maintained, and road worthy at all times
• Compile trip reports for drivers and weekly log sheets and enter into the fuel consumption report; process monthly fuel requests and consolidate fuel liquidations for office vehicles
• Ensure that self and all passengers are wearing seatbelts prior to departure, including those in the back seat
• Report any accidents involved while driving project vehicle to the police and appropriate authorities; ensure vehicle has all the required forms before starting a trip.
• Act as administrative assistant, when not driving.
• Performs any other duties that may be assigned from time to time by the supervisor.

Required Qualifications
The Driver should:

• Have an Ordinary National Diploma (OND);
• Be able to communicate in English language;
• Have a minimum of 5 years work experience in a similar position within any reputable organization or within an international development project will be an added advantage;
• Understand the mechanics of vehicles as this will be advantageous;
• Have demonstrable knowledge of Nigerian road networks (with emphasis on Northern Nigeria)
• Have demonstrable knowledge of Nigerian driving codes and regulations
• Ability to drive and work long hours
• Familiar with the culture of the area.
• Familiar with the local terrain and routes and respond appropriately, in case of emergency.
• Knowledge and fluent understanding of Hausa language will be an added advantage

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Requisition ID: req13074
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time (with a contract for 1 year, renewable subject to availability of funding.)

Project Overview and Role

• Data.FI is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response. Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance.
• By improving global, regional, national, and community/local in-depth analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of the epidemics.
• Data.FI supports host country governments to enhance existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition.

Purpose of Position 

• We are seeking to employ a Senior Software Engineer who will provide leadership support to the Data.Fi Nigeria software development team.
• S/he will be responsible for directing the development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of applications with guidance from the HI Lead and the DIAS regional team.
• The Senior Software Engineer would oversee task management, standardization, skills improvement, technical meetings, and documented sprint demos in addition to validating team performance metrics while ensuring effective communication between team members and other project functional areas.
• S/he will co-facilitate the Health Informatics Community of Practice (CoP) technical working groups and ensure code collaborations and cooperation between the CoP technical teams. S/he will further rally the software development team towards the product vision and technical strategy.
• The Senior Software Engineer will report to the Health Informatics Lead.
• This is a full-time position with a contract for 1 year, renewable subject to availability of funding.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the software development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of country-level digital tools
• Take a leadership role in the development and implementation of technical strategies and solution architectures and design of the project’s suite of technologies
• Work closely with stakeholders including the product owners to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team
• Lead the planning and documentation of technical specifications of system design and features
• Ensure that all technical and user requirements, requested enhancements, and reported bugs are accurately captured, validated, and prioritized into the portfolio backlog, product backlogs and comprehensively logged as Epics, Features, Stories, and Tasks on Jira.
• Co-facilitate review sprints with product owners and other stakeholders to secure approval and acceptance from the product owners, and Retrospect sprints to capture lessons learned and actionable improvements applicable to future sprints
• Mentoring team members and ensuring they adhere to determined software quality standards
• Lead implementation of Palladium’s standardized software development approach, including accompanying tools and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Work closely with the Health Informatics Lead to plan for and prioritize resource needs for systems development
• Lead and participate in the writing of testable, scalable, and efficient code and leading code reviews
• Spearhead adoption and compliance to global best practices including the principles of digital development, applicable coding conventions, open standards, and security standards.
• Work with the Health Informatics lead and DIAS Regional Team in specific application release planning and development of deployment schedules.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in the development and implementation of digital health tools specifically relating to technology and data solutions in a data-driven environment.
• Solid technical background with understanding or hands-on experience in development and implementation of Information Systems that support health and social protection programs
• Minimum of 2 years experience leading software development teams overseeing end-to-end design, development, and deployment of software solutions
• Solid knowledge of responsive web design using Bootstrap and related technologies.
• Experience with relational databases, schema design, and performance analysis.
• Experience deploying large-scale solutions using containers and other cloud technologies.
• Solid Java capabilities and techniques.
• Solid knowledge of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring JPA & Hibernate.
• Good experience with Git or similar version control systems.
• Solid knowledge of JavaScript environments, including react/redux and angular.
• Advanced knowledge of relational data modelling concepts and experience in PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Work with the DevOps to establish, refine, adapt, and manage software development and information technology operations (DevOps) processes and tools as required.
• Experience using digital tools to manage projects, such as Microsoft Teams, Planner, Jira.
• Experience working with technology teams to ensure design and solution architecture outputs meet the business requirements.
• Experience with Global Goods for digital health such as DHIS, OpenMRS and OpenHIE.

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Highly self-motivated and directed.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• 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.
• 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 [email protected] 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

Job Title: Driver – IHP

Job ID: req13059
Locations: Arewa, Jega and Zuru – Kebbi

Project Overview and Role

• Palladium seeks three Drivers for the five-year, USAID-funded Nigeria Integrated Health Program (IHP) – Task Order 4 – Kebbi. The Driver positions will be in the following areas; Arewa, Jega and Zuru Embedded Office .
• The goal of IHP is to contribute to state-level reductions in child and maternal morbidity and mortality and to increase the capacity of health systems (public and private) to sustainably support quality PHC services.
• The purpose of Task Order 4 is to implement priority primary health interventions in Bauchi state to strengthen the state government area (LGA), and ward level health systems.
• The objectives of the program are a) strengthen systems supporting primary health care (PHC) services b) improve access to PHC services; and c) increase quality of PHC services. Strong engagement and collaboration with state government is expected throughout the program.
• Task Order 4 will coordinate closely with other USAID activities and other development partner programs in the state. USAID will intentionally overlay this activity with other Mission programming to increase Government of Nigeria (GON) resources for PHC services, increase demand for PHC services, and improve access to essential commodities.
• The activity is expected to collaborate closely with those other implementing partners and will not undertake any activities already implemented by other USAID programs.
• The Driver is a full-time position to support the Nigeria Integrated Health Program staff in the safe transport of team members and deliveries. Under immediate supervision of the Logistics Assistant.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• The driver will drive vehicles as directed, including transporting staff to the field, performing pickups and delivery tasks; responsible for routine vehicle maintenance, including inspecting the vehicle; noting damage, scratches, malfunctions, or problems and reporting any faults to senior driver; and ensuring vehicles are clean, well maintained, and road worthy at all times.
• They will compile trip reports for drivers and weekly log sheets and enter into the fuel consumption report; process monthly fuel requests and consolidate fuel liquidations for office vehicles
• S/he will ensure that self and all passengers are wearing seatbelts prior to departure, including those in the back seat.
• S/he will report any accidents involved while driving project vehicle to the police and appropriate authorities; ensure vehicle has all the required forms before starting a trip.
• S/he will act as administrative assistant, when not driving.
• S/he will perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time by the supervisor

Required Qualifications

• Have an Ordinary National Diploma (OND);
• Be able to communicate in English language;
• Have a minimum of 5 years work experience in a similar position within any reputable organization or within an international development project will be an added advantage;
• Understand the mechanics of vehicles as this will be advantageous;
• Have demonstrable knowledge of Nigerian road networks (with emphasis on Northern Nigeria)
• Have demonstrable knowledge of Nigerian driving codes and regulations
• Ability to drive and work long hours
• Familiar with the culture of the area.
• Familiar with the local terrain and routes and respond appropriately, in case of emergency.
• Knowledge and fluent understanding of Hausa language will be an added advantage

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Important Information and Notice

• 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.
• Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or any other circumstance, please email our team at: [email protected]