Senior Associate, Project Communications, CATALYZE

Senior Associate,
Project Communications, 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 3,000
talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and
gender identities.

This Opportunity:

The CATALYZE Portfolio
based out of Palladium's Washington, D.C. office is currently seeking a Senior
Associate, Project Communications to develop high-quality, internally
and externally facing communications materials for the CATALYZE program.

CATALYZE is a $250 million 8-year program, designed to mobilize $2 billion in
private capital, especially to underfinanced social sectors 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
provides 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.

Global CATALYZE teams and USAID missions work in 39 countries across multiple
sectors, such as green finance, education finance,
agriculture/food security, information and communications technology, tourism,
health care, apparel, social protection, infrastructure, WASH, workforce
development, and early childhood education and care. We partner with local
financial facilitators and financial institutions to increase financing to small-
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

The Senior Associate
will oversee all social media and promote internal and external events while
also supporting the overall CATALYZE Comms team with internal and external project
communications materials, including quarterly and annual reports, newsletters,
graphics, and website content for USAID, CATALYZE teams and stakeholders in the
U.S. and abroad, working in close collaboration with CATALYZE
Activity teams and CATALYZE's core program management unit (PMU). This is
a project position on CATALYZE, based out of the Palladium offices in
Washington, D.C. Remote work options on Eastern Standard Time hours may be
considered for exceptional candidates.

You and Your
Career:

If you are looking to
be part of a dynamic, growing team, are looking to make immediate, measurable
contributions; and you have expertise as a communications manager within
international development, 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 and
Supervision:

• The role is part of a four-person CATALYZE
  Communications Team and will work in coordination with CATALYZE leadership
  and activity management staff across CATALYZE.
  
• The role directly reports to
  the Director of Communications.
  
• As delegated, the role liaises closely
  with CATALYZE clients (USAID) and CATALYZE Activity Management Units
  (AMUs) and field teams in Washington, D.C., and abroad, technical area
  specialists, professional service providers, and others.
  
• As required, the role collaborates with
  the broader Palladium Communications teams for global or North
  America-specific initiatives, as well as other USAID Private Sector
  Engagement (PSE) Hub implementing partners, service providers and
  subcontractors.
  

Primary Duties and
Responsibilities:

• Oversee all development and scheduling of social
  media content, (reviews and edits social media content provided to
  relevant missions for CATALYZE Activities).
  
• Support the production and distribution of
  contractually-required communications deliverables, including quarterly
  and annual reports; liaises with CATALYZE Activity teams and the CATALYZE
  Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director to obtain all inputs for
  reports (content, photos, graphics), liaises with graphic designers, and
  copy editors to ensure timely production of quality deliverables.
  
• Lead the development of a monthly communications
  updates, drafting all inputs from relevant Activity teams.
  
• Support CATALYZE Activity Teams to upload
  content to Palladium's Yammer site and Catalyst newsletter, to share
  CATALYZE learnings across the company.
  
• Facilitate discussions with project staff
  to conceptualize, design and develop infographics, charts, maps, and other
  visual content to translate technical findings into user-friendly products
  for non-technical audiences.
  
• Develop and update content for the USAID
  CATALYZE website (USAID.gov) in line with requirements from the PSE hub.
  
• Serve as a CATALYZE Branding and Marking
  expert, providing guidance and internal reviews/approvals to Activity
  teams to ensure compliance.
  
• Support CATALYZE Activities to develop and
  implement Activity-level communications strategies, with guidance from
  Communications Director.
  
• Support CATALYZE teams to finalize
  content, graphics and the process by which updates are made into
  Smartsheets software, to facilitate CATALYZE project management for both
  Palladium and USAID
  
• Manage CATALYZE editorial calendar to
  ensure regular production of quality external communication pieces and
  organization of and participation in industry events.
  
• Identify, develop, and support external
  webinars and events to analyze and present thought leadership/learnings
  from CATALYZE Activities; supports CATALYZE staff to conduct speaking
  engagements and helps develop content for these (e.g., presentations,
  talking points).
  
• Lead the placement and/or development of regular, externally
  facing stories, including feature articles, blog posts, videos,
  interviews, and op-eds, by obtaining inputs from CATALYZE Activity
  teams, stakeholders in the U.S. and abroad, editors, and others, and drafting
  high-quality content with compelling graphics and visuals for publication
  
• Support CATALYZE Activities to plan and
  implement high-quality events as needed (with occasional travel to support
  events in person, as required); this may include supporting Activity teams
  to conceptualize and design events, preparing event communications
  materials, talking points, generating social media content, helping
  develop event plans for logistics, audio/visual needs, formatting and
  branding of presentations, and coordinating with event planners and local
  USAID missions
  
• Develop and disseminate press releases for
  CATALYZE Activities, liaising with Activity teams to obtain and develop
  content, ensure quality control and proper client approvals.
  

Key Competencies
Required:

• 3-5 years' experience in communications,
  marketing and/or public relations
  
• Experience coordinating with USAID
  Missions to produce high quality communications content, such as Fact
  Sheets.
• Experience supporting report production on USAID or donor-funded
  programs a plus
  
• Experience planning and implementing
  high-visibility events, including developing event materials, press
  releases, and coordinating logistics
  
• Experience in producing high-quality
  communications materials (e.g. reports, blogs, articles, success stories,
  fact sheets, tweets, website content) in English on tight deadlines in a
  dynamic environment
  
• Experience supporting communications on
  USAID-funded programs and with private sector actors a plus, including
  developing high-quality stories, blog posts, web content, talking points,
  speeches
  
• Experience in communications, marketing
  and/or public relations
  
• Demonstrated understanding of development
  finance and investment and experience developing communications materials
  for economic growth-related activities a plus
  
• Strong writing and editing skills with an
  ability to tailor the tone, content, and form of written output in line
  with a range of different audiences and to suit a variety of formats;
  ability to synthesize and simplify information and communicate it in a
  lively, accurate and understandable manner
  
• Detail-oriented and deadline-driven with
  strong organizational skills, and ability to work in a dynamic and agile
  environment with changing requirements and priorities
  
• Knowledge and understanding of USAID
  programs, branding, communications style, and learning frameworks
  
• Strong cross-cultural, interpersonal,
  management and collaboration skills in highly complex structures involving
  multiple teams and stakeholders
  
• Demonstrated competency in PowerPoint,
  Word, and graphic design
  
• Sound problem solving and decision-making
  skills
  
• Highly self-motivated and able to work
  independently as well as in team settings
  
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation
  skills in English
  

Professional
Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Competency in other languages (French,
  Spanish) preferred
  

Diversity, Equity
& Inclusion - 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,
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 any other circumstance,
please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com

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.