Jobs at Palladium Group

Project Overview and Role:

• The Palladium Group has an opening for a Grants/Compliance Manager within the Financial Management department. The Grants/Compliance Manager will manage grants portfolios, in accordance with Palladium's and USAID policies and procedures. 

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Prepares and processes grant applications, and oversees grant management and implementation for all public-sector opportunities.
• Ensures all sub-awards comply with the rules and regulations of governments and other multilateral donors.
• Strengthens and maintains the necessary administrative structures and interdepartmental processes to ensure grant transparency, smooth implementation, reporting, requisite controls, and monitoring.
• Guide and advise grantees on the interpretation of grant terms and conditions and client rules and regulations as well and training, guiding and mentoring grantee counterparts as needed in coordination with the Technical Leads and Senior Grants and Compliance Manager.
• Provides guidance to technical staff in the development of SOWs, EOIs and RFAs for grants, including the development of program technical description, milestones, deliverables and selection criteria to ensure USAID approval.
• Coordinates with the ACO Senior Grants and Compliance Manager prior to submission to the Chief of Party and or USAID to ensure quality and compliance
• Take initiative and provide creative solutions to complex contractual/compliance problems, working with applicable IHP team members on project-wide initiatives and issues.
• Provide contractual and regulatory guidance, ensuring contract compliance in accordance with terms and conditions of supported Task Orders, and as a result draft client approval request as necessary;
• Lead the grants/subawards procurement of goods and services under the Task Order including, but not limited to:  Draft EOIs, RFAs, etc. 
• Manage the selection process during proposal evaluations including evaluation memos and selection justifications.
• Complete pre-award assessments and due diligence.
• Facilitate negotiations with awardees in consultation with the Senior Grants and Compliance Manager and Technical Leads.
• Draft, review, and finalize the resulting grant/subaward document in addition to modifications as required.
• Prepare, organize, and maintain grant records and files documenting grant award, modification, performance and compliance.
• Provide grant briefs to document new grant awards, modifications and administrative changes.
• Participate in the implementation and monitoring of grants milestones, tracking grants deliverables and monitoring grants delivery against grants budget.
• Review and process requests for payment of invoices for milestone(s) achieved and verified.
• Maintain the grant portfolio database and project grant data on relevant grant database system and Project SharePoint site for all grants mechanisms, always ensuring up to date records for spot checks and audits.
• Escalate grants risks and issues to the Senior Grants and Compliance Manager or Director of Finance and Administration, Technical Leads and other IHP staff as required.
• Report on overall progress against grants agreed targets, milestones, outputs, burn-rate and activities.
• Contribute to responses to client’s requests in conjunction with the Senior Grants and Compliance Manager.
• Ensure compliance to set rules and regulations in the organization (i.e. ensuring that all staff take the annual USAID FP compliance requirement course(s), Palladium mandatory courses, COVID-19 compliance maintenance within the office and in all official functions like workshops and meetings);  
• Ensure strict adherence to timelines and deadlines of all steps in the grants process as outlined above.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree in business, finance, accounting, economics, or any other relevant field. Bachelor's degree with at least 6 years of experience in grant, business, finance, accounting, or any other relevant field can be substituted for an advanced degree.
• Minimum of five years of experience managing grants for donor organizations. Experience with USAID grants management system highly preferred.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, including the ability to manage large budgets and client expectations.
• Able to communicate effectively and excellent interpersonal skills to form effective working relationships at all levels.
• High level of computer literacy, should have good knowledge of basic Office 365 applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, etc.
• Ability to deal appropriately with sensitive issues and maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times. 

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Job Description

• The Senior Front End Developer 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 further rally the software development team towards the Product vision and technical strategy.
• The Senior Front End Developer will report to the DevOps Manager.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Lead the front-end development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of country level digital tools.
• Take a leadership role in development and implementation 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
• Co-Lead the planning and documentation of technical specifications of system design and features 
• Work with the management team to 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 specified PM tools.
• 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 DevOps manager to plan for and prioritize resource needs for systems development
• 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 DevOps Management and IS Regional Team in specific application release planning and development of deployment schedules.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 3 years of experience in 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
• Experience leading software development teams. 
• Solid knowledge of responsive web design using Bootstrap and related technologies.
• Experience deploying large scale solutions using containers and other cloud technologies.
• Solid knowledge of JavaScript environments, including react/redux and angular
• 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 will be an added advantage.