Amazon Fund Associate

**Amazon Fund Associate**

**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**:
Palladium is recruiting Regional/Amazon Fund Associate for a programme and grants professional with a passion for carbon reductions to join our UK PACT team in Bogota, Colombia or Sao Paulo, Brazil. The UK PACT programme aims to improve the effectiveness of key institutions (public, private and civil society) in partner countries so that they can deliver accelerated emission reductions and raise the ambition of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) targets. Specifically, the programme will deliver the following results:
An increase in the capacity and capability of partner institutions (national, sub-national and civil society) to deliver enhanced and accelerated climate actions
An increase in in-country buy-in to urgently facilitate low-carbon development

**Location**:
The position is based in Bogota, Colombia or Sao Paulo, Brazil.

**You and Your Career**:
If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in operational management, procurement and grants management and have experience supporting complex programmes in the development space, 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**:
***This role will report to Regional lead Latin America / Amazon Fund Manager, UK PACT with close coordination with the Regional Grants Manager Latin America.

**Primary Roles and Responsibilities**:
The Amazon Fund Associate will be a key regional member of the Palladium UK PACT team supporting management of day-to-day activities from project implementation and reporting to stakeholder engagement and context analysis to ensure overall programme success.

Specifically, the Amazon Fund Associate will:
Strategy Development and Engagement:

- Support on continuous context analysis and assessment of local market capacity to identify the most appropriate avenues for interventions and pathways to climate change impact within each key strategic sector
- Support further demand scoping for UK PACT-funded projects in different countries of the Amazon Region (such as, but not exclusively: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru), including stakeholder mapping and engagement, identification of complementary existing programmes (funded by the UK and other donors) to avoid programme duplication, and horizon scanning.

Stakeholder Relationships:

- Support the UK PACT Amazon Fund Manager in promoting UK PACT funding opportunities to potential implementing partners, project and programme outputs to intended beneficiaries, and broader UK engagement on low-carbon development where relevant
- Working closely with the UK PACT Amazon Fund Manager, contribute to, and where appropriate lead the management of day-to-day interactions with local stakeholders, specifically supporting the relationships with project applicants and grant recipients/implementing partners
- Maintain an excellent working relationship with local FCDO team at Post to collaboratively design and generate buy-in for the programme activities

Project Management: Identification, Selection and Design of Interventions:

- Contribute to the project screening and selection process, particularly regarding assessing deliverability and impact potential on the ground
- Support the UK PACT Amazon Fund Manager to oversee timely implementation of projects and regularly ensure the feedback of results, impacts and learning through quarterly reports to FCDO covering overall progress, progress against outputs, main activities and outputs for the next period, budget, spend and forecast, and risks
- Support the UK PACT Amazon Fund Manager and PMU to adhere to any local due diligence required from Implementing Partners and to support initial briefing to potential Implementation Partners
- Support defence against fraud, corruption and safeguarding risks, conducting spot checks and other processes to ensure FCDO grant funding is spent as intended and that Implementation Partners meet FCDO compliance requirements
- Support the UK PACT Amazon Fund Manager in advising on the potential to extend, scale up or replicate successful projects, and work with successful Implementation Partners to do this with FCDO approval

***Programme Reporting:

- Support Implementing Partners on project reporting (technical, f