Access to Finance Team Lead – USAID/Kosovo Investment Promotion and Access to Finance Activity
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:
The purpose of the Kosovo Investment Promotion and Access to Finance (IPAF) Activity is to strengthen private sector capacity for sustainable economic growth through investment promotion and increased access to diversified finance. The Activity will promote partnerships between the private sector and Government of Kosovo and press for productive dialogue between the private sector and the government to attract direct investment and enhance access to finance. The position of A2F Team Lead requires strong SME access to finance knowledge, broad general and technical knowledge in access to finance, and experience in new financing products and services.

You and Your Career:
If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in business, economics, law or other relevant fields, 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!
Palladium seeks an A2F Team Lead who will be responsible for the technical implementation and the effective and compliant management of access to finance activities. They will be a senior member of the IPAF team, with overall responsibility for supervising activity staff and managing day-to-day relations with the client and counterparts in the private and public sectors.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Lead technical direction and strategy development for implementation access to finance activities, and ensure an integrated vision across components
Design and develop strategic activities to increase the availability of financial products.
Work with traditional and non-traditional providers of financing on the development of new products and services
Conduct assessments on identify financing gaps, and ongoing constraints to accessing finance amongst SMEs.
Implement activities that will help SMEs to advocate for policy reforms to enable the introduction of new financial products and services tailored to the needs of growing SMEs.
Contribute to annual technical workplans and oversee the performance of the Activity in line with set targets.
Identify issues and risks related to program implementation in a timely manner, and suggest appropriate program adjustments
Ensure judicious use of USG resources, on-time delivery of activity reports and partner deliverables, and overall compliance with USAID regulations and Palladium policies and procedures
Key Competencies Required:
Masters’ degree or equivalent in business, economics, law or other relevant fields
Minimum of 5 years of experience working and managing projects in Economic Growth: access to finance, investment promotion, business enabling environment, market systems strengthening, SME development or related fields
Experience in access to finance for SMEs reforms to promote diverse financing products and services.
Demonstrated leadership in the administration of similarly sized international donor support programs.
Proven ability to develop and communicate a common vision among diverse partners and the ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams
Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills in English
Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:
Prior experience working in Kosovo required
Prior USAID experience preferred
Diversity, Equity & 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.
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