Country Fund Associate

**Country Fund Associate - Brazil**

**Programme overview**

Palladium is recruiting for a grants and programme support professional to work on the UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) programme. UK PACT is a UK Government programme funded through International Climate Finance (ICF) that has been running since 2018 and currently operates in over ten countries.

The programme’s overall objective is to alleviate poverty, working primarily through reducing greenhouse gas emissions. UK PACT is a flexible technical assistance (TA) programme that is designed to support ODA eligible countries to increase their future climate ambitions, reduce their emissions, and accelerate just transitions to clean growth. A key feature of UK PACT is that it aims to respond explicitly to partner government demand for capacity building interventions, and that it shares UK expertise (for example in areas such as climate legislation, green finance, and smart energy).

**Primary responsibilities**

The Brazil Fund Associate will be a key in-country 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 Brazil 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; and
- Support further demand scoping for UK PACT-funded projects in-country, 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 Brazil 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 Brazil 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; and
- 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 with regard to assessing deliverability and impact potential on the ground;
- Support the UK PACT Brazil 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 Brazil Fund Manager and PMU team 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; and
- Support the UK PACT Brazil 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, financial, results and risk), ensuring reporting meets FCDO requirements, providing a coordination and quality assurance function; and
- Support identification of country and project-specific risk management, working with FCDO in post and in the UK, the Team Leader and PMU team.

**Key Competencies and Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred**:

- Programme and grant management skills, with experience supporting the deliver and management of projects, grantees or subcontracts
- Strong reporting skills with proven ability to contribute to client formal reporting and ad-hoc requests
- Good knowledge and/or willingness to learn more about the environmental / low carbon sector in terms of policy landscape, relevant state and non-state actors in relation to climate change, and low-carbon economic development
- Some knowledge and understanding of the local political economy and business operating context in Peru, including socio-economic context and development challenges and priorities
- Strong organisational, inter-personal administration and communication skills
- Strong financial management and administration skills, with the ability to review a