Grants & Subcontracts Manager

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 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.  

This Proposal Opportunity: *ESTIMATED START DATE TO BE DETERMINED* - Palladium is seeking a local Guinean Grants & Subcontracts Manager for a project that will establish and manage a facility. The project financing facility will be responsible for identifying, selecting, and initiating commercial and community-scale pilots and investment projects for positive impact. The overarching goal of the project is to foster economic and social development along the transport corridor between Conakry and Simandou.  The facility will provide funding to investments, projects, or pilots through two windows: Stream 1 – community-based projects with a higher risk profile and smaller capital needs (estimated at $20,000-100,000); Stream2 – commercial acceleration for more commercially mature projects and innovative solutions that address critical value chain gaps downstream for agriculture, infrastructure, utilities, and human capital.

The Grants & Subcontracts Manager will lead all efforts related to collecting and analyzing the data that will ultimately determine the impact of the client’s intervention to facilitate significant and new investment. S/he will be responsible for tracking and aggregating all project data to support the team in evaluating the project’s progress. This person will be a critical leader to establish and foster a results-oriented and data fluent technical team with a learning mindset.

Roles and Responsibilities

      Oversee the administration, compliance, and implementation procedures of subcontracts and grants, and ensure compliance with the client’s contract regulations including procurement regulations.       Design and conduct subcontracts, grants and consulting assignment solicitations and advertisements.      Facilitate and coordinate technical design of innovative grant, partnership and subcontracting approaches to meet the technical strategies of the facility.      Support designing and conducting grants solicitation and advertisements utilizing Palladium’s Pay-for-Results methodologies.      Support the design, planning, outreach, implementation, and maintenance of partnerships for the Facility, including with internal and external partners.       Manage grants commitments, taking into account probability-weighted pipelines and other tools to manage grant agreements against obligated amounts.      Ensure design of grants and partnerships are aligned with the project’s technical strategy and results-based methodology and in compliance with Palladium/the client’s rules and regulations.       Facilitate pre-award risk assessments and due diligence checks.       Support designing, preparing, and negotiating partner strategies with internal staff and potential partners.      Assist in negotiating, in collaboration with Palladium HQ, grant terms and agreements, with potential grantees.        Lead negotiations with contractors and applicants on awards, processes, and execution.

Position Requirements

       Knowledge of donor grants policies, procedures, and reporting requirements        Knowledge of donor subcontracts regulations       Familiarity with managing performance-based or pay-for-results grants/contracts is preferred       Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance or a related field in international business management, finance, accounting and/or auditing experience.       Experience in managing partnerships, interacting with stakeholders, collaborating on meetings and workshops, and overseeing partnership activities       Experience in designing and managing subcontracts       Experience managing staff       Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with various stakeholders and grant awardees       Advanced knowledge of computers and MS Excel      Local candidates only   Written and oral proficiency in English required. Fluency in vernacular languages such as Sousou, Pular, and/or Mandingue is a plus.  

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.