Vacant Openings at Palladium: Make It Possible

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Serve as key point of contact for day-to-day program management.
• Oversee and manage country team to ensure project implementation runs smoothly.
• Lead the development and execution of high-quality country strategic plan relevant to the local context and reflecting the global priorities.
• Lead and ensure the quality of technical deliverables related to supply chain maturity, rational use of medicine, health financing, and private sector engagement of supply chains. 
• Oversee the recruitment, orientation, and performance of senior staff and development of middle management staff.
• Collaborate with technical leaders to ensure all workplan activities are not only taking place as planned but are also of high quality
• Liaise between technical and operations teams to ensure activity plans are translated into contracts, consultancies, travel, etc., and support financial management by ensuring case forecasts and spending reports reflect planned/completed technical activities.
• Oversee project work planning, budgeting, and progress/financial reporting, in collaboration with country team, technical, and HQ staff.
• Interface with clients and other project stakeholders, to plan, implement, review, and report on projects and deliverables or products as needed.
• Ensure staff compliance with project guidelines and SOPs; and perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Key Competencies Required:

• Experience in international development working with donors (including USAID) is required.
• Experience as a Chief of Party or in a senior leadership position of a project that is implemented at the country level that required the assembling, managing, and supervising complex teams.
• Experience with global health or health supply chain programs with significant experience in one of the following areas: supply chain management, procurement, warehousing, or logistics.
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain, 4PL, and 3PL logistics, including experience with LMIS, WMIS, TMIS, and control tower software.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders including government agencies, host country governments and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience in monitoring and documenting project activities and outcomes.
• Ability to exercise leadership, build teams, maintain effective communication, motivate, and generate commitment within a team.
• Knowledge of USG procurement regulations. 
• Ability to communicate effectively and high comfort level writing and presenting data and information in a compelling way to different audiences.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and non-technical audience required. 

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Master’s degree in global public health, business, supply chain management, public administration, healthcare administration, or a related field. 
• Proficiency in local languages is beneficial.

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Support the Chief of Party to provide technical direction and supervision for all program activities and interventions to ensure integration, coordination, and collaboration across all result areas
• Ensure that project objectives, outcomes, and deliverables are met and that reporting requirements of the donor are followed.
• Ensure quality activity implementation and ensure compliance with donor requirements.
• Promote sustainability of project activities through effective networking, linkages to other programs, capacity building of project staff, and institutional strengthening of implementing partners and local organizations
• Provide operational, technical, programmatic, financial, and management guidance and support for project activities
• Undertaking other duties as assigned by the Chief of Party

Key Competencies Required:

• At least 8 years’ experience in international development working with donors (including USAID) is required.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Deputy Chief of Party or in a senior leadership position of a project that is implemented at the country level that required the assembling, managing, and assisting with supervising complex teams. 3 years’ experience with global health (supply chain management, health information systems, procurement, warehousing and logistics) programs strongly preferred. 
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders including government agencies, South African government and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
• Experience in monitoring and documenting project activities and outcomes.
• Strong leadership, program, organizational management and oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills for working with project staff, donors and beneficiaries.
• Master’s degree in global public health, business, supply chain management, public administration, healthcare administration, or a related field. 
• Experience working and living in South Africa is preferred.

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 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their data needs and develop analytical solutions to address business challenges.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data models, pipelines, and architectures for efficient data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes.
• Perform data cleansing, aggregation, and validation to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Analyze complex data sets using statistical techniques, data mining, and machine learning algorithms to identify patterns, trends, and insights.
• Develop and implement data visualizations, dashboards, and reports to effectively communicate analytical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to support their analytical needs and facilitate the integration of data models into production systems.
• Monitor data quality and performance of analytics solutions, identifying and resolving issues to ensure reliable and accurate outputs.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends, technologies, and best practices in analytics, data engineering, and data visualization.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of data processes and infrastructure by identifying opportunities for automation, optimization, and efficiency gains.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
• Proven work experience as an Analytics Engineer or in a similar role, with a focus on data engineering, statistical analysis, and data visualization.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, R, or SQL, with experience in data manipulation, analysis, and automation.
• Strong understanding of database systems, data warehousing, and ETL processes.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Apache Superset, Metabase or similar.
• Solid knowledge of statistical analysis techniques and machine learning algorithms.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark) is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex datasets and derive meaningful insights.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively present analytical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Detail-oriented and highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.