Activity Lead, Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE), CATALYZE
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 Opportunity:
CATALYZE,
the USAID $250 million 8-year program, is seeking an Activity Lead for its
Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) activity. This person will be
responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously overseeing
interventions of the ECCE family of investments, which currently pilots
multiple models across Latin America and the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and
South Asia.
The
CATALYZE Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE) activity aims to enhance
access to low-cost and high-quality ECCE which unlocks inclusive development,
improving child outcomes, promoting women's economic empowerment, enhancing
family welfare, and driving overall economic growth. ECCE seeks to fill the gap
in education that nearly 593 million children below primary school age
currently experience; specifically, they lack access to appropriate childcare
in emerging economies, constraining human capital growth. Meanwhile, women, who assume an estimated 75%
of childcare responsibilities worldwide are often unable to pursue economic
opportunities given care responsibilities. As a result, 606 million women worldwide
are excluded from the global labour force, with consequent impacts on
productivity and economic growth.
CATALYZE
is designed to mobilize $2 billion in private capital, especially to
underfinanced social sectors (such as education) and higher risk countries
(especially low-income and post-conflict countries) around the globe,
complemented by a cross-cutting inclusion of gender-lens investing. CATALYZE
will serve as a "platform of platforms" that will provide services to many
missions and bureaus that "buy in" to tap the CATALYZE investment and
pay-for-results project management expertise. Our aim is for investors to
explore and find commercially-viable opportunities and approaches to creating
jobs, developing sustainable social services, tightening, and rationalizing
supply chains, and advancing inclusive growth - ultimately, reducing the need
for development institutions to provide donor funding.
Location and Compensation:
The position is based in Palladium's
Washington D.C. office. Highly-qualified
remote candidates may be considered.
For our
prospective employees in the United States, please note that the full-time
equivalent annual base salary for this position is expected to range from $100,000
to $150,000 and successful candidates may also be eligible for additional,
variable incentive compensation dependent on the role.
Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based on
various factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education,
experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium's business or
organizational needs.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the compensation
for this position, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We value your
interest in our company and appreciate the opportunity to discuss this
opportunity with you.
You and Your Career:
If you are passionate about early childhood development, women's
economic empowerment, creating and leading innovative and high-value
public-private partnerships, and blended finance, and if you have expertise in
international education, learning, and early childhood development, the care
economy, project management, and/or social impact, then we are interested in
hearing from you.
We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities
from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and
guidance to chart a fulfilling career!
Reporting Lines:
Primary
Roles and Responsibilities:
Essential
Criteria:
Desirable
Criteria:
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.